PRESS RELEASE

WASHINGTON - Congressman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) denounced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough's poorly written interim response to a previous inquiry. In a letter, Westerman wrote:

“Thank you for your poorly written, meaningless interim response to my inquiry. It’s obvious from your lack of sentence structure, punctuation, and overall lack of attention to detail that this issue is a very low priority to you and the VA.

“Please be assured that my communications to the Appropriations Committee and my colleagues in the House will be much more organized and better articulated when I lobby them to cut funding to your political staff and others who are advocating and implementing these political issues in what should be an apolitical agency.”

Background:

• On June 6th, Congressman Westerman cosigned a letter to VA Secretary McDonough expressing concern for the display of Pride flags at VA facilities.

• On July 3rd, the VA sent this interim response, containing clear lack of proof-reading.

• Click here to read Westerman’s full response.