David Shulkin: “it's going to be a major advance.”

I think you are absolutely correct. It is why we have had a 90-percent reduction on new starts in opioids because we are using a different approach.

This is a tough job for anybody to do. What the successful secretary needs to do is to build a team around them because this is bigger than any one person, and to work very collaboratively with veteran service organizations and Congress.

I ask for your steadfast support in funding our full FY 2019 and FY 2020 AA budget requests.

If that is true, let me make it clear right now, that should not be followed.