'The GOP participates in a lobbyist-friendly campaign to trash the VA,' the congresswoman alleged.
As the debate over reforms to the Department of Veterans' Affairs heats up, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting back against Republicans who criticized her defense of the beleaguered body.
But the congresswoman went on the attack on Wednesday evening, accusing Republicans of selling out the VA to for-profit interests and calling for better funding across the department. Using a higher estimate of VA vacancies, Ocasio-Cortez declared, “Fully funding the VA & hiring to fill the 49k vacancies is a clear path to improving it—not auctioning off our vet care systems to for-profit companies.”
The debate made it all the way to President Donald Trump, who surprisingly declared that Ocasio-Cortez was right, though failed to acknowledge her criticism of underfunding and concerns over privatization. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is correct, the VA is not broken, it is doing great,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “But that is only because of the Trump Administration.”
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