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V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 6:04 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-veterans-affairs-secretary-shulkin-214223514--politics.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=d9780ae9-562b-3ef5-9d83-c17f2088b031&.tsrc=notification-brknews
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency.
Shulkin is the second Cabinet secretary to depart over controversies involving expensive travel, following former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's resignation last September.
Trump is nominating Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson to succeed Shulkin, a former Obama administration official and the first non-veteran ever to head the VA. Jackson has served since 2013 as the Physician to the President, and gained a national profile earlier this year for holding a sweeping press conference on the president's health.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 6:25 pm
As an Obama holdover, rather a sturdy compliment to have held on for so long into the Trump era.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Apparently all you have to do is flatter Trump to get a job (get someone else's job).
Not that Shulkin was ever that bright.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 9:56 pm
Someone should have realized by now that the VA has an impossible task. That's because we can't seem to keep our troops out of harm's way.
Someday maybe we'll learn to stop fucking with other people but not under the WLB's administration.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 10:02 pm
The world is a snake and we are a kitten pawing it.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 28, 2018 at 11:30 pm
Kittens are better at pawing at snakes. Leave the kittens out of this! 
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 29, 2018 at 5:36 am
VA has kept me alive to this point. Today might be different.
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RE: V.A. secretary Shulkin FIRED!
March 29, 2018 at 1:55 pm
If the trumpster could haul his ass up a horse he'd have appointed it secretary of state by now.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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