United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Well, I think it does, Mr. Chen, or at least I think that there's a pretty clear argument that it does.

The Secretary shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a secretarial decision under a law affecting the provision of benefits.

Now, one question that's necessary to that decision by the Secretary is whether the law providing for veterans benefits is itself constitutional.

It's kind of a precondition of the Secretary's decision under that law.

So this isn't about Justice Alito's back half of the sentence, it's about the front half of the sentence.

The Secretary's applying, let's say, a VA law about benefits.

But there's been a challenge, a constitutional challenge, raised to that law, and the Secretary can't go merrily along without deciding whether the law itself can be applied.

So why isn't that a question of law necessary to the secretarial decision referenced?

So we're seeing plus 83 margin, plus 82 margin, um, and this is something that we've known for a long time.

But there's a handful of House Republicans that have been listening too much to Doug Collins, the VA Secretary, who's been trying to undermine this bill, uh, because he's been cut out of the process.

And Politico reported that, CNN's reported that.

It's unfortunate that we have a former VA Secretary, or a VA Secretary who's a former congressman who's been undermining this bill.

But that's why I commissioned the poll.

It is politically the right thing to do, and we see that likely midterm voters are more likely, over 60%, to support a candidate that votes for the Take Care of America's Veterans Act.

And that's why so many of us in the veteran community were very excited not to just play defense, but to go on offense and to build upon those victories, to provide veterans more choice in their healthcare.

And in Trump's first term, he fired Secretary Shulkin for not moving fast enough on healthcare choice.