Denis McDonough: “We take great pride in the fact that we send a package to that family within 10 days of the death announcement.”

We want to make sure that we compete for the veterans' care, and we can compete on quality.

We have right sized our eyes and our stomach in this program, having learned very hard lessons over the course of the last almost four years of deployment of the new system.

we should be able to watch this develop and be in a position to make sure that we have the people and the space to take care of those vets.

We are determined to meet these goals laid out in the program, because the President expects us to, but as importantly, because our vets need it.