Coffman Statement On VA’s Plan for Aurora HospitalU.S. Representative Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) offered the following comment in response to a Denver Post story that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) intends to request the additional $830 million needed to complete the Aurora VA hospital by using money from a $5 billion fund created by the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014. “The VA hospital in Aurora must be built but the cost overruns need to be paid for without compromising the reforms, recently passed by Congress, to improve the VA’s ability to care for our nation’s veterans,” said Coffman, a Marine Corps combat veteran. “Despite scandal after scandal involving VA bureaucrats, they are unwilling to sacrifice a single dime of their bonus money to pay for their mistakes. This is just another example of VA leadership being far more concerned about serving themselves than serving our veterans who have sacrificed so much for this country and who deserve better.” |
