“You cannot go straight to community care as a veteran. That's just false. You can't just— I can't tomorrow just decide to go to community care.”
Speaker
Speaker B
Timestamp
86:28 – 86:47
Source
Senate Veterans' Affairs (Sullivan): Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 and 2028 advance appropriations requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Community
Alaska News
Captured at
May 20, 2026

From the transcript

I, I'm just going to be sitting here for just a second, if you would allow me a second. Yes, we're going to look into this, but the conversation I just had needs to be answered. You cannot go straight to community care as a veteran. That's just false. You can't just— I can't tomorrow just decide to go to community care.

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