David Shulkin: “Every day that we delay, veterans are being put in the middle, and that is really unfair to them.”

I came to Washington with the commitment to make our system work better for veterans. That's the commitment that I went to work every day. I continue to feel strongly about that. There was no reason why I would resign.

Delays, as you know, can prevent a veteran who may be ready to confront addiction from actually seeking treatment.

We have $1.8 billion in the President's budget for ending Veterans homelessness.

But like any business, the times change, the needs change and it's time for us to look at how we operate our networks differently to get the type of accountability that's needed to make sure we don't see the failures that we saw here in…