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Robert Wilkie: “While all Executive Branch departments and agencies must carry out their missions without consideration or influence of…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2018
While all Executive Branch departments and agencies must carry out their missions without consideration or influence of partisan politics, I have said in my visits across the department - visits that in the last five weeks cover ten VA hospitals from Boston to Las Vegas--that there are two departments of the Federal Government that must be especially careful to rise above partisan politics: the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs-this Committee is proof of that postulate.
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Wilkie emphasizes the importance of non-partisan operations in the VA and DoD.

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