BREAKING : House GOP Targets “Bad Apples” in the Veterans Administration 

One of the promises Donald Trump made while on the campaign trail was to take care of our vets and fix Obama’s failing Veterans Administration.

Consider this another promise kept, as House Republicans will vote on a bill next week that will make it easier to fire “bad apples” within the VA.

Once this bill passes, the Trump administration can go in and clean house.

From Washington Examiner

House Republicans are gearing up for a vote next week on legislation that would make it easier to fire, demote and strip bonus awards from corrupt or negligent officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The vote will come nearly three years after Congress acted to punish VA workers involved in healthcare scandal. In 2014, it was revealed that VA workers around the country were systematically cooking the books to make it look like veterans didn’t have to wait very long for a medical appointment.

But three years later, the 2014 bill is a proven failure when it comes to disciplining VA employees, Just a handful were ever fired, and many were allowed to retire with full benefits, a performance record that has drawn complaints from Congress for the last two years.

More recent examples have emerged that display a lack of accountability at the VA. On Thursday, the Office of Special Counsel reported that the VA failed to hear whistleblower complaints from 2014 that “unnecessary coronary procedures” were being performed on veterans.

The physician responsible for those unnecessary procedures was never disciplined, the OSC found.

But it could be different under the Trump administration. President Trump’s VA secretary, David Shulkin, wasn’t the first pick of many veterans groups and whistleblowers. However, he pledged in February that he wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger on employees who need to go.

“Watch us,” Shulkin told Fox News. “People who don’t show up to work, who do cocaine and are watching porn at work are going to be fired, because I’m not going to tolerate it, and they’re going to be out of our system.”

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