David Roe: “One of the problems that VA has, that it did have was loss of trust. ... we work for the veterans.”

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

The provision in Section 2, it says, 'The Secretary shall give preference in the provision of financial assistance under this section to eligible entities who have demonstrated the ability to provide assistance and suicide prevention…

It is not a threat to the VA, it is a lifeline to the VA.