Daniel Gade, one of President Trump’s picks to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has been a staunch critic of the Department of Veterans Affairs, arguing that its system for providing financial support to disabled veterans has left them worse off.

Gade, himself a disabled Iraq War veteran, has argued the system inadvertently encourages veterans to continue to receive financial assistance rather than re-entering the workforce.

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