VA secretary: Bill making it easier to fire workers a 'different' but necessary step

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Tuesday that legislation President Trump will sign today that makes it easier to fire VA employees represents a step the VA needs to take in order to bring accountability back to the troubled agency.

“I am not one to say that this accountability bill is absolutely perfect, but I am convinced that we need to take a different path. And I need as secretary, if I am going to change this organization, the ability to remove the employees that clearly in my view no longer should have the privilege of serving our veterans take a different path,” the secretary told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.