2 Big Challenges Confronting America's Veterans

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie brings a personal and family history of military service to his high-profile job—characteristics that have helped him lead an government agency responsible for providing care for approximately 9.5 million of America's veterans. The Daily Signal speaks to him about the issues confronting America's veterans and his leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs. We also share your letters to the editor and an interview with U.S. Special Forces veteran and author Brad Taylor about his new book, "Hunter Killer," which is available Tuesday. The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at dailysignal.com/podcasts. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, January 6th. I'm Robert Bluey.
0:09.4	And I'm Virginia Allen. Happy New Year. Rob and I are very excited to be back with you all this morning.
0:15.5	On today's show, we share a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie.
0:21.3	We also have your letters to the editor and my interview with U.S. Special Forces veteran
0:25.6	and author Brad Taylor about his new book, Hunter Killer, which comes out tomorrow.
0:30.7	Before we get to today's show, Rob and I would like to tell you about the agenda, a Heritage Foundation email that provides you with the news conservatives need to know every week.
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1:15.0	Now stay tuned for today's show coming up next. We are joined in the Daily Signal Podcast today by Robert Wilkie. He's the
1:28.1	Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Secretary Wilkie, it's
1:31.1	good to have you on the program. Well, thank you for having me.
1:34.4	Tell us about the mission of Veterans Affairs and what your priorities are as Secretary
1:39.2	for the Department.
1:40.2	Well, the mission is very simple, but it's also sublime. I'm sitting underneath the quote from, really,
1:47.1	the father of what was first, the Veterans Bureau and now Veterans Affairs, that's Mr Lincoln.
1:53.0	In his second inaugural, he said that the mission of government was to care for him who
1:59.1	shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, one of the last acts of his life before he went to the theater
2:07.0	was to sign the charters for three soldiers' homes in Maine, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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