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ELISSA SLOTKIN DESTROYS VA SECRETARY COLLINS ‘IT
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August 25, 2025
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10:33Now PlayingRep. Elissa Slotkin didn’t hold back. In a fiery House hearing, she confronted VA Secretary Doug Collins over reckless cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs — cuts that risk leaving veterans without the care and benefits they earned. From sloppy firings and rehirings, to threats of slashing up to 80,000 jobs, Collins’ approach isn’t reform. It’s chaos.
Slotkin’s warning was clear: you can’t claim to “support the troops” while gutting the very system that serves them. Veterans need case workers, administrators, and IT staff just as much as doctors and nurses. Without them, claims pile up, records get lost, and veterans are forced to wait years for care. That’s not supporting veterans — that’s betraying them.
This hearing exposed the truth behind Republican budget priorities. While Democrats are pushing to invest nearly $5 billion more in the VA, Collins and his allies are playing politics with veterans’ health and benefits. It’s sloppy. It’s reckless. And as Slotkin said, “You know it.”
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