In 3 short years, we turned the VA from a national embarrassment into a national treasure. - President @realDonaldTrump
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>> These short years we turned the VA from a national embarrassment into a national example of devotion and service and loyalty to the American veteran. It was amazing, an amazing thing and an amazing success. So we got it done pretty quickly. Once we got the legislation passed, I would say it moved along very quickly. Sadly, Crooked Joe Biden, and that's what he is, he's a stone-cold thief. Crooked Joe Biden has been a disaster for American veterans. As one of his first acts in office, Biden gutted my historic VA reforms. He gutted them out, making it easier to remove bad VA employees from the job. And in a shocking act of betrayal of America's veterans, as well as the tens of thousands of dedicated professionals, and you do have great professionals at the VA, Crooked Joe Biden is in the process of not removing people, but reinstating 5,000 of the 10,000 people that we fired who were fired for good reason, including state instrument this, who were fired for very good reasons, and they want to give them back their full pay. They want to give them their jobs back, and we were very careful about that. We didn't get rid of people haphazardly. We got rid of people that were not doing their job, some really in bad cases and some they just weren't doing their job. They didn't care. They didn't show up to work, and he wants to put at least half of them back, the same people, and it'll cost over $200 million to do that. I'd rather give the money to you directly. It's a lot better. It's amazing. I mean, it's amazing. It breaks your heart. It breaks your heart. That was such a big thing, and now they want to put a lot of those people back. Joe Biden puts bureaucrats first, I put veterans first, and I put America first. (audience applauds)
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