David Shulkin actually said...

we kept the veterans foremost in our minds, not ourselves as politicians or the press or somebody who wanted to play games.

The Senate sent a pretty clear message to veterans that veterans are your priority.

we are going to have a program that is either going to be out of money, out of gas, or out of both.

the fact that David Shulkin was confirmed 100 to nothing; the first Presidential appointee that was voted in unanimously.