Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told Newsmax on Wednesday that he is focused on getting veterans what they need, despite the “bureaucratic maze” at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Unfortunately, we’ve gotten to a point where the VA was more about itself than it was the veterans,” Collins said on “National Report.” “So, what we’ve done with the cuts, with contracts that we’ve found that we’ve talked about, how we’ve redirected funds back to the frontline of health care, we’re putting more money in. We put out a policy just this past week concerning gender dysphoria and that we’re no longer going to promote the process of changing one’s sex.
“If you’re currently in the VA and getting hormone treatments, you’ll continue it, but we’re not going to do that anymore here and I think most people would agree with us. It’s a pretty common sense thing to do because that’s not what we’re about at the VA. We’re going to take that money that we would be spending and put it toward disabled veterans and prosthetics and things like that.”
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