Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
messes. Certainly didnt want to talk about migrant children. But the people she listed, so proud they want to revehicle the cl
he certainly has his hands full. vacancy, a lot of workers, budget short fall. but if you re an american veteran, a what s your biggest problem with the va now? it s access to care. va mission act that supposed to help resolve that, sun set the controversial choice program as you outlined earlier, that s something that our veterans tell us is their biggest challenge, getting va care, getting into the system. that s one of the biggest challenges he needs to reduce along with the suicide rates within our community. he also needs to really heavily focus on suicide prevention. seeing all the challenges, why is privatization such a bad move? privatization of the va would be disastrous in that it would send millions out in the u.s. health care system costing
is about to get a permanent secretary. senate voted overwhelmingly 86-9 yesterday to confirm robert will can i as the next secretary. he replaces david shill kin who was fired in march. taking over a department that has been plagued with problems for years. let s take a look at some of the biggest issues. department of veterans affairs provides health and other benefits to nearly 20 million military veterans. it s the nation s second largest bureaucra bureaucracy. there s a budget battle already under way. the va s proposed budget stands at $199 billion. part of the budget short fall comes from the va mission act of 2018, a massive restructuring of the medical care programs. this law signed last month
that we are a city on the move. let s start with the challenges you have. you have a unique challenge in that you have to deal with congress. as part of your as part of they control some of your funds. you will face a budget short fall. what do you need from congress? do you need more money from the federal government? well, we re a city and a county and a state all at once. we re looking for it to work with the new congress and are optimistic. so we need the congress to focus on the big issues of our nation immigration reform and working together and getting things done. we re getting things done for our city just fine governing ourselves. but you have the budget shortfall. where does the money come from? we will look at our budget. we balanced it the last 17 years. we will balance it again. we will make those decisions and send up a balanced budget to the congress. all they need to do is keep it clean. no riders no they never do that.
driven down crime. and we want the world to know that we are a city on the move. let s start with the challenges you have. you have a unique challenge in that you have to deal with congress. as part of your as part of they control some of your funds. you will face a budget short fall. what do you need from congress? do you need more money from the federal government? well, we re a city and a county and a state all at once. we re looking for it to work with the new congress and are optimistic. so we need the congress to focus on the big issues of our nation immigration reform and working together and getting things done. we re getting things done for our city just fine governing ourselves. but you have the budget shortfall. where does the money come from? we will look at our budget. we balanced it the last 17 years. we will balance it again. we will make those decisions and send up a balanced budget to the congress. all they need to do is keep it clean. no riders no