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Behind Trump’s Big-Money Battle to Shake Up the VA: “I Think It’s an Existential Threat”

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Donald Trump is poised to bring major changes to the VA , the agency that provides health care to 9 million vets.

Critics say these changes appear to be driven by big, right-wing money from the likes of the Koch brothers.

Approximately 6,000 vets commit suicide every year , according to the Department of Veterans Affairs .

Trump has nominated Doug Collins , a former Georgia Republican congressman, to lead the VA .

Collins is scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing on January 14 .

The real goal, he says, is providing supplements and alternatives to the VA’s “broken bureaucracy” Duckworth, for her part, is also in favor of vets having some ability to see private doctors.