Jon Tester: “So can I ask you, is what you pay your staff for equivalent capabilities competitive with the VA?”

This is -- what's gone on the last two weeks or so, 10 days, has been nothing short of craziness.

I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.

There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.

If that was possible it would already be done.