VA Secretary McDonald "900 Employees Held Accountable"

60 tied to appointment wait times were "laid off" but that doesn't explain if they are being paid, on unemployment or subject to recall. It also doesn't say what positions the others had or when those jobs will be filled considering they were already understaffed at many locations. Your guess is as good as mine on this one.

V.A. Secretary: '900 People Have Been Fired'
NBC News

Sixty of those who were laid off, McDonald explained, were removed because they manipulated wait times on records from medical facilities serving veterans.

More than nine hundred employees in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have been fired in the past six months, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet The Press."

"We're making fundamental changes in the department in terms of leadership," McDonald said. "We have held accountable about 900 employees who are no longer with us that were with us before I became secretary."

Sixty of those who were laid off, McDonald explained, were removed because they manipulated wait times on records from medical facilities serving veterans.
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