Rep. Miller says he would consider running the VA if Trump asks

Published November 16, 2016 5:40pm ET



The outgoing chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee said he would give it “very serious consideration” if President-elect Trump called on him to serve as the next secretary of veterans affairs, but that he hasn’t been called.

Trump told the Associated Press in July that he was considering Rep. Jeff Miller to be the head of the VA because he “certainly is someone a lot of people respect,” citing his work to reform the agency amid the wait time crisis. Miller, R-Fla., is retiring from Congress at the end of this year after 15 years on Capitol Hill.

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