Republicans blast McDonald’s ‘tone-deaf’ Disneyland, VA comparison

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Republican lawmakers slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs Monday after Sec. Bob McDonald compared the agency’s long wait times for veterans seeking health care to the wait times for rides at Disneyland.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump used McDonald’s comments to remind voters that his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, said in October that problems at the VA were “not widespread.”

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