Trump Won't Fix VA Mess Because Details Bore Him

By Frances Langum — November 13, 2018

Note on this video how furious Stephanie Ruhle is. And rightfully so. This administration is ready to ADD to the homeless vet population, because of incompetence:

If you read one thing today, MAKE IT THIS 👇 #onething
29-year-old veteran: "I’m about to lose everything that I own and become homeless," Roundtree said. "I don’t want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven’t received what I was promised." https://t.co/whflnTEc5R

— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) November 12, 2018

The panel on Monday's Stephanie Ruhle program agreed that the VA's problems are not 100% Donald Trump's fault. The VA has Information Technology problems that predate the Trump White House. But Trump made huge promises to vets that these problems would get fixed, and they haven't precisely because of Donald Trump. Bloomberg's Timothy O'Brien explains:

TIMOTHY O'BRIEN: The president is a businessman who campaigned on the promise he would cut wasteful government and make the remaining government work for his constituents. That's not happening here. There are 45 thousand jobs that have been unfilled. He oversaw a generous expansion of GI benefits but didn't embed a process behind them to make sure they could be properly delivered. This isn't partisan politics or ideology. It's about managing a process. He oversees the federal government. The reality is, he doesn't care about minutia. He lacks the discipline. He appreciates a grand gesture, then he doesn't follow up. You're seeing all this come home to roost in a very ugly way.

And now Trump leaves 45K jobs at the VA vacant because administering is boring and there's no profit FOR HIM there. (Seriously those who applaud a businessman in government "I like him because he's not a politician" need to have their teeth drilled by "not a dentist.") https://t.co/oUkZSTFE6f

— Frances Langum (@bluegal) November 13, 2018

UPDATE: In related news...

White House creates "policy time" for Trump to encourage work https://t.co/WteUDHBEmM pic.twitter.com/Bhl75TpeT9

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 13, 2018

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