VA Chief Cuts Off Trump Ties: Post Armed Guards at Door
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Source: The HILL
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has reportedly cut off contact with top agency officials and now operates out of an office with an armed guard at the door amid ongoing tensions with top staff.
Shulkin, a VA holdover from the Obama administration promoted to the head job by President Trump, has canceled morning meetings with top Trump appointees in the department and hasn't spoken to his public affairs chief in weeks. He fears that his aides in the nation's second-largest bureaucracy, behind only the Pentagon, are actively lobbying the White House for his ouster, The Washington Post reports.
In addition, several senior officials Shulkin personally suspects of disloyalty have lost access to the secretary's 10th floor executive suite.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377575-shulkin-cancels-meetings-with-trump-appointees-amid-va-strife-report
[div class"excerpt"]Things have come to a grinding halt, one senior manager told the Post. Its killing the agency. Nobody trusts each other.
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http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?trackingGroup91690&siteSectionndn&videoId33619668
[div class"excerpt"]...............UPDATE ..More Info
As per Zion Lion comment below on WaPo link..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/management-failures-led-to-unacceptable-patient-risks-at-vas-flagship-dc-hospital-watchdog-finds/2018/03/07/4b52c60a-220d-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term.bcd4cf1ed4fe
.....this is what is going on.....
VA chief outlines changes at hospitals nationwide following report on alleged D.C. center mismanagement
Veterans Affairs Secretary David J. Shulkin on Wednesday announced an overhaul of the senior leadership overseeing almost two dozen troubled hospitals across the country following the release of a searing investigation into what the agency watchdog said were management failures that put patients at VAs flagship medical center in the District at risk.
Shulkin said one senior regional official has been reassigned and two others retired as the agency cleans up management of large hospitals and clinics in the Washington area, New England, Phoenix and parts of California. He also said he has appointed 24 new facility directors in the last year, including in Maryland and Virginia, after outside teams identified low-performing hospitals.
It is time for this organization to do business differently, Shulkin said at a news conference at the Washington Medical Center. These are urgent issues, and many of these issues are unacceptable.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)tinrobot
(10,848 posts)Shulkin, a VA holdover from the Obama administration promoted to the head job by President Trump, has canceled morning meetings with top Trump appointees in the department and hasn't spoken to his public affairs chief in weeks. He fears that his aides in the nation's second-largest bureaucracy, behind only the Pentagon, are actively lobbying the White House for his ouster, The Washington Post reports.
In addition, several senior officials Shulkin personally suspects of disloyalty have lost access to the secretary's 10th floor executive suite.
The chaos has allegedly deadlocked an agency that President Trump promised during his 2016 campaign to reform after a major health-care scandal during the Obama administration.
The rest here : http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377575-shulkin-cancels-meetings-with-trump-appointees-amid-va-strife-report
Was working on details, but had to go potty..
Quick
haele
(12,581 posts)Instead of continuing work on the one they were developing - that was working where it was being piloted - just so it could look like the Drumpf administration "cared about vets" and a couple DoD/MIC vendors could roll out a new system without sufficient assessment of whether or not it would work with the unique constraints that the VA system is operating under.
I think that might be part of the issue there.
Haele
Volaris
(10,260 posts)If I had read this yesterday, I surely would have asked them about it heh...
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Are treated much differently than the ones in SoCal.
You have to wonder what is really going on...???
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)mostly hospital directors and senior leadership at several regional VA hospitals including the DC area
around 2 dozen hospitals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/management-failures-led-to-unacceptable-patient-risks-at-vas-flagship-dc-hospital-watchdog-finds/2018/03/07/4b52c60a-220d-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.5de940b5ee5e
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)GOP do not like veterans, never have.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Now that the republicans are kissing the bloated butt of their very own casino-hustling Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, their collective pissing on America's veterans has become a Stinky Stormy Moral Suckbucket.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)vs. Their record on voting to protect Veterans?
Volaris
(10,260 posts)Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Nuclear cleanser
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)from very cheap materials so they were easy to cut
Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)Exposed Trump's hypocrisy right on his show. I miss Dave...
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)And I believed it - shows how insane this crazy circus (and what constitutes news as long as Trump is around) has become!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)On new blood
haele
(12,581 posts)Next stop, Journalistic Cliff City.
Armed Guards at the VA after cutting contact with "Trump Officials"? WTF is the Hill trying to imply?
Haele
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)Sam McGee
(347 posts)Rachel is just about finished putting together her show for Friday night . . . and now this . . .
-- Rumors that SCOTUS Justice Kennedy will retire
-- This from the VA
-- Trump reported ready to fire everyone at the White House -- Jarvanka, Kelly, McMaster -- and go "full MAGA."
-- Lawyer used Trump.com email to deal with Stormy
There's not enough popcorn in my pantry . . .
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)When will it blow over
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Orange top flip flop kettle corn.
Just put microwave & Mini beer fridge by lazy boy chair
to by TV - to always be ready for what's next..
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)Gyms and yoga studios should start offering some specials to deal with the stress
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Trump Tauma
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)when they announced they used the MOAB in Afghanistan. People were flipping out
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Or maybe this is one of those times she has to turn the car around and go back to the office...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)This administration has the largest collection of pathological nitwits since the last GOP convention.
and they keep topping themselves.
Shulkin needs a serious MH eval.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Is Trump just not paying attention? I would think he'd fire him and put one of his clowns in charge.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)Obama appointed him undersecretary of VA for health, Trump promoted him.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)damn, WTF is the need for an armed guard at the door? What sort of enemies does he think are coming for him?
Volaris
(10,260 posts)hes actually trying to do the job correctly, and the guards are there to keep Trumps people OUT.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)And the crap is hitting the Oops fan
red dog 1
(27,648 posts)(That will embarrass the hell out of Shitler)
K&R
Bleacher Creature
(11,237 posts)Yeah, me neither.
dameatball
(7,380 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)the dumpsters, following the kook brothers mandate, are about to take a meat axe to the VA, and he's resisting.
Oh, yeah, and all those idiot vets (yeah, I said it) who voted for donnie because they were conned by his macho bluster and swagger, and couldn't bring themselves to vote for HRC--I hope they put 2 + 2 when their benefits and services get shitcanned.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)It's killing the agency? He's an Obama holdover that Trump kept and promoted ? Odd.
It's my only health care, and I get to go in this month for my annual. I wish I could load up my prescriptions for 6 months, but it's not allowed.
We need more information, and I hope more press coverage is coming.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)louis-t
(23,199 posts)off....Trump's....tie...
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Is he having a breakdown?