WATCH: In today's hearing to justify the VA's proposed FY26 budget, Sen. Ossoff pressed the VA Secretary for the specific number of doctors and nurses the VA planned to hire or fire as part of the budget. The answer? He doesn't know yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnjH...
Someone needs to capture that dastardly dog that keeps eating all of their homework.
Yea all they have is a concept of a clusterfuck
Senator Ossoff, that was impressive. These people do not stand up well to scrutiny. It’s like they don’t know what they’re doing. 😉
I know I am repeating myself in responding on other threads but no a single member of the trump cabinet and administration knows anything about anything. They are being paid to occupy the top seats, to prance round on TV and social media, but do no actual work. I guess it is a good gig.
OR -they DO know and it's not something they want on record in this hearing. Maybe they do not want to publically acknowlege the reality of how many jobs are being cut. They think they can sneak in a phone call. I don't think they can take the outrage directed at them.
VA Record-Breaking 2023, Increased Hiring govexec.com/workforce/20... Vets had 116M VA appointments 2023, up from 113M in 2022. VA gave $163B in benefits to 1.5M+ vets @ new records. VA handled record 2.4M benefit claims FY 2023, up 39%. Trump Bill Cuts $ To Pre-Pact Levels.https://t.co/gTQOz9uZ7T
83,000 VA Employees to Be Fired This Year for Trump's Billionaire Tax Cuts www.military.com/daily-news/2... Layoffs return VA staffing to pre-PACT Act levels, before the 2022 bill expanded VA health care & benefits to thousands of veterans exposed to toxic substances in active service.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... Engineers and data experts at Pentagon's Defense Digital Service (drone detection, cyber vulnerability, military benefits) resign under WH "restrictions making us non-mission capable." Experts at DDS brought Silicon Valley-style solutions to DOD. Entire tech team resigns.
www.forbes.com/sites/davidj... Justin Fulcher ran a telehealth startup that went bankrupt, is accused of unpaid bills and appears to have overstated his credentials. Now he’s among those leading DOGE’s effort at the Pentagon.
Ignorance is not a defense.
I would think that is part of the budget.
Thank you @ossoff.senate.gov for your questions and persistence
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Thank you for this strong grilling of the evil-hearted, lying Russel Vought. From NJ, I just donated to support you based on your courage and bold standing up for our democracy. We can’t Thank you enough.
Republicans are never prepared for anything except cutting taxes for billionaires. Total incompetency.
I'm a vet and I know now they approved of this guy.
I’m rolling my eyes. If you don’t know the answer to the Senator’s question, then you don’t know how to prepare a budget.
Unacceptable
My dad is a disabled Vietnam vet who sacrificed 28 years for this country. They better keep their fking hands off the benefits he's earned and deserves! 🤬
Don't feed rich people. Don't healthcare rich people. Problem solved
I donated to Ossoff’s campaign immediately after watching this clip. He’s awesome.
It’s the new way to budgeting!
THANK YOU! Sen Ossoff, I’m not from GA but I love you always. This exchange —your clarity, focus, integrity, and power—helps me breathe better, sit up straighter, and have hope. So proud of & grateful for you !
If I were to go into a budget meeting this unprepared, I would certainly be fired.
I love the "this is a budget meeting that we all prepare for and you come to the meeting with knowing numbers?" segment!
It's really sad since I work with elders and they are just seeing increases in their VA benefits to match their needs. Heartbreaking what this will do to so many. 💔
THANK YOU SO MUCH for fighting for us! – Sincerely a [soon-to-be Former] VISN7 Vet
No one in this administration ever seems to know anything about the things they're supposed to be in charge of.
Oh, you didn't expect him to show up prepared, did you? Disappointing, but NOT surprising. Ignorance and incompetence has been working for them so far, and I don't expect them to change their ways any time soon. Thanks for the update.
The calm scrutiny by Sen. Ossoff made The VA secretary look like a school child that hadn't done his homework.
Senator Ossoff we need you to run for president. Full stop.
Doug Collins is the perfect example of white male privilege. Doesn’t know jack shit, expects approval on an incomplete budget and expects it all to be peachy keen.
Despicable
This is how you do oversight. They are showing up to budget hearings without data - it is willful noncompliance and dems should talk about it everyday.
I don’t know how you do it. I wouldn’t have had your amazing patience in response to his non-answers.
Hey Ossoff. You text me, daily, asking for money. And, daily, I reply STOP which blocks that number from asking me again. Then, a few hours later or the next day, another one. Give me money! Give me money!! STOP again. You just use a new # every time. How can I get you to FUCK OFF?
Wow, imagine showing up at work, in any company of any size, this ill-prepared. A high school-level PowerPoint after five months on the job.
Really like you but I'm not sending any money until Schumer is replaced we need new leadership!!
PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND PROTECTED LANDS! WHEN THEY'RE GONE, THEY'RE GONE, AND SHAME ON US!
Please run for president.
😏 another one that doesn’t know his job.
How can you make out a budget without knowing that?
Fucking idiots. The pattern seems to be nobody did anything with the budgets and they "will get back to you." Deliberate?
Keep to the fight, Jon! You're doing what's right, and we love you for it!
No one in that administration knows anything about the agency they’re in charge of🤬
This administration is told to destroy, steal & cause chaos. They are told not to tell us anything or give us any audit results. Leave us ignorant of the facts & terrified of the future. All deliberately done. They are giving us the 🖕 on the national stage.
That’s the excuse of every Secretary…no budget, no idea, no clue…
A 26 page ppt? That I probably could have bull shitted my way through? Again… WTH!
Great questions from Sen. Ossoff. The current leaders of the VA are clearly in way over their heads. An almost unbelievable level of incompetence or they’re pretending to be incompetent and are really evil, but I think it is mostly incompetence.
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How about killing the funding for the pill factory in the White House? It wants to cut our health care, rump needs to face the music with the rest of us. It dies a painful agonizing death, it's its just reward.
He doesn’t know yet but you should just trust him!! Good lord.
Why is every cabinet official like that kid in grade school who didn't do the reading and is making it up as they present?
Incompetency is what Trump’s lackeys are all about.
Now hiding the information from the public State the numbers in public, in this hearing on C-SPAN!!
No one in this administration knows anything. The answer will be "whatever Trump tells me to do."
The know nothing cabinet.
The Republican Party is not acting normal and needs to be dealt with abnormally... Like go on the offensive.. Sue for your and our rights
Thank you @ossoff.senate.gov for working to protect our Veterans from the stupidity Trump hired to run such an important department! We just can’t make this 💩 up!! God help us!!
So why didn’t Sen Ossoff ask the question “How do you know your number, as presented, is right if you don’t have the numbers to support it?”
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I spent over 20 years in healthcare management & if I showed up for a budget meeting & didn't have accurate budget numbers for a budget I was presenting, I'd be written up & ultimately fired. Why are we acting like this is ok behavior for people we are paying?
I have 30+ years in engineering and project management and if I showed up to a project review with group leadership with bullshit and bullshit answers, I’d be gone that afternoon! This is incompetence at the highest fucking level! unfuckinbelievable…
He's hardly going to say all of them when everyone's listening
Why didn’t you vote to impeach
