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Donald Trump Has Fired, Demoted, or Suspended over 8,000 Veterans Affairs Employees Since Taking Office
2019-11-12
The VA has 377,805 employees, so they’ve dealt with the worst 2%, but it’s definitely a start. It seems reasonable to assume that other departments across the executive branch have done the same.
[Breitbar] President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
 has relieved over 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their duty since becoming the president, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

"The standard is if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave," Wilkie told news hounds in a presser on Friday. "This is a transformational moment in our history."

Wilkie said accountability was a signature promise from President Trump, particularly after the Veterans Affairs scandals in Phoenix in 2014 and 2015.

Under Trump, he said, VA employees as high as network directors down to the lowest employees were removed for not performing their job to the proper standards.

"This is, I think, one of the strongest statements that we can make: That it is a new day at VA," Wilkie said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  My father worked for the DoD in HR. He always said that they, "Hired the best of the desperate."
Posted by: Sposing Sinatra9104   2019-11-12 17:18  

#6  $1.6B new facility $1B over budget in Denver, 4 years late. Zero, zilch, none, not a one, Medical employee added to staff. (confirmed by a MD who is overworked). Wait times same as before but they are better now at pawning you off on another department, after a minimum of another 30 days wait. Conversations with staff, biggest problem IS lack of accountability.
Posted by: Harcourt Sforza8659   2019-11-12 13:48  

#5  Getting rid of incompetents? No wonder the deep state hates him.
Posted by: Iblis   2019-11-12 09:43  

#4  So the VA is the model for Fauxcahontas's vision of healthcare? Unbelievable.

Shitshow, Medical Tent.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-12 07:01  

#3  Ref #2: It will of course also contribute positively to the moral of the good employees who will no longer have to deal with the slugs.

Of course few are willing to discuss the hiring practices which created such a klustrfhok. Please expand the BETA test to all federal agencies.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-11-12 06:31  

#2  Make the Veteran’s Administration great. It will of course also contribute positively to the moral of the good employees who will no longer have to deal with the slugs.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-11-12 06:23  

#1  Time to hit the Pentagon?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-11-12 02:38  

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