“Does VA Secretary David Shulkin’s hairline seem to be receding? That might be because he keeps getting new reasons to tear his hair out.”
“Few spectacles are less pleasant to watch than the implosion of a high-level official, especially one who has arguably accomplished much. Yet that’s unfortunately what we may be seeing with Shulkin.”
“Friday the AP reported President Trump had talked to Energy Secretary Rick Perry about the VA job.”
“And now, as Nicole Ogrysko reports, the “accountable” personnel system at VA is looking like this era’s version of the failed National Security Personnel System (NSPS) of the early 2000s. Many employees, their main union, and I’ll wager even some senior managers don’t like it. Nicole discovered, personnel policies are inconsistent from place to place within VA…”
“Congress has some culpability. As it did for VA now, back in 2004 it authorized the NSPS. Although well intentioned, the system actually devised by the Defense Department fell short of its goals…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA’s Shulkin in dreaded “distraction” mode – By Tom Temin, March 20, 2018. Federal News Radio.
