Denis McDonough: “I have seen this personally myself, including with a Gold Star mom and a Gold Star wife.”

We are going out to get new veterans into the system.

We are tracking with each of our visits, at the VISN level, what their spend every month, what their enrollment is every month, and what their FTE count is every month.

We had a very good couple of years hiring. I just said that we hired, net, 14,000 nurses in the last two and a half years.

You and your fellow Senators have kept the heat on and the delegation have kept the heat on us.