VA Secretary Doug Collins: We Saved ‘Roughly $900 Million After Reviewing Just 2% of Contracts

Breitbart ^ | 10 Mar 2025 | Hannah Knudsen

[SoConPubbie]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has saved roughly $900 million after reviewing just two percent of its contracts, VA Secretary Doug Collins announced.

In a video posted to his official X account, Collins addressed those complaining about changes being made at Veterans Affairs and explained that no matter what, no changes will result in cuts to health care or benefits to veterans and VA beneficiaries.

“VA will always fulfill its duty to provide veterans, families, caregivers and survivors the health care and benefits they have earned. That’s a promise, and while we conduct our review, VA will continue to hire for more than 300,000 mission critical positions to ensure health care and benefits for VA beneficiaries are not impacted,” he said, discussing the department’s goal of reducing the number of VA employees.

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“There are many people complaining about the changes we’re making at the VA, but what we most of them are really saying is, let’s just keep doing the same thing the VA has always done. No. Not gonna happen. The days of kicking the can down the road and measuring VA’s progress by how much money it spends and how many people it employs, rather than how many veterans it helps, are over,” he said, providing one example of what they are doing differently.

“Here’s just one example. We’re conducting a comprehensive review of the VA’s 90,000 contracts, which are worth more than $67 billion,” she said, revealing that after reviewing just two percent of these Veterans Affairs contracts, they were able to cancel “nearly 600 non-mission critical or duplicative agreements that will save the department roughly $900 million.”

[SoConPubbie]

“We regret anyone who loses their job. It’s extraordinarily difficult for me, especially as a VA leader and your secretary, to make these types of decisions. But the federal government does not exist to employ people,” he said. “It exists to serve people at the VA, we are focused on serving veterans better than ever before, and doing so requires changing and improving the organization.”

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He identified bureaucracy as the number one issue getting in the way of Veterans Affairs discharging its duties.

“As I have said before, we owe American veterans and hundreds of thousands of amazing employees solutions. And mark my words, that is what we will deliver” he promised.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

$900K x 100/2 = $45 billion.

$45 billion here, $45 billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

[ReformedBeckite]

".....“nearly 600 non-mission critical or duplicative agreements

Sounds par for the course, I wonder how many of those contracts were not going to the VA care but was actually going into other corrupt people pockets. I would hope they would do an investigation on who started this unneeded contracts, but that will probably never happen.

[griswold3]

Most likely trickle down contracts, or pyramid. one entity pays 3-4 others and they pay others so on and so on

[ComputerGuy]

I’m still amazed at what the VA did for me. Less than two years ago my cancer came back. Folks at UNC told me that kind of cancer was covered by the PACT Act, or something like that. I filed a claim with the VA. The papers were uploaded to them on a Friday afternoon from the local VA Rep’s office.

Seven days later, the rep called and said I was approved for 100% disability.

Five days after that, a check showed up in my mailbox.
The whole thing took less than two weeks!

I’m still having trouble getting my head around that.

[napscoordinator]

I hope it’s put towards the debt!!!!!

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[Bob Wills is still the king]

The VA won’t cut direct patient services, but it will take longer and longer to get appointments, work out admin. mistakes, and have the facilities remain in a decent state of repair.

The last time we tried “austerity,” the “deferred maintenance” built up so far we never caught up once the economy recovered. Our buildings, parks, courts, and military facilities like housing will get shabbier and shabbier - again.

[SoConPubbie]

The last time we tried “austerity,” the “deferred maintenance” built up so far we never caught up once the economy recovered. Our buildings, parks, courts, and military facilities like housing will get shabbier and shabbier - again. The last time this was tried it was not Trump and the cabinent he now has.

Calm down, and let him work.

[rdcbn1]

The VA is walking fraud machine.

[Big Red Badger]

Signed up with VA six months ago and I’m Well pleased. Seems alot of different stories but I’m sure it will get better.
Seems VA is trying to get on board with
President Trump.

[lurk]

What is the incentive for the VA to be efficient? They get paid the same no matter what.

[Big Red Badger]

Everyone I’ve meet Genuinely seem to Appreciate and want to help with my issues
If they can’t help they allow me to find a suitable civilian Doctor,Very efficient.
Facilities are Top Notch and to Boot it’s History is an 1860’s Cavalry Post.

[Sequoyah101]

They are shabby now.

[Miami Rebel]

Great!

Good health to you, sir!

[ComputerGuy]

Thank you