Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins wanted to make it clear Monday that, contrary to some reports, veterans’ health benefits are not being cut by the Trump administration.

“We’re doing everything we can to put mission one back at the VA being the veteran,” Collins said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “It’s very important for us to take all those kind of rumors, innuendo, the hypotheticals, the possibilities that you and I both know that the media loves to run with because it’s something that they can run with that creates a little bit of controversy, and then they can walk away with basically their hands clean.

“The problem is, we at the VA have to clean up the mess and clean up the mess means that we have to explain to people what we’re doing. And there is a lot of change going on. I’m not saying that there’s not, but all of it is designed to get us to that primary focus of being veterans-centric, to the veteran for the benefits and the healthcare that they’ve earned.”

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