Denis McDonough: “In short, this proposed budget allows us to deliver high-quality whole health care and benefits to our veterans.”

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 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.

We want to make sure that we compete for the veterans' care, and we can compete on quality, and we want to make sure that veterans know that we're invested in their quality.

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.