Outrage as MAGA Republican threatens agency long thought untouchable

Democrats hit out at Derrick Van Orden after the Wisconsin Republican representative called for the Trump administration to implement cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“So when are we going to cut the VA?” Van Orden asked at a U.S. House hearing on Thursday.

“Derrick Van Orden isn’t even trying to hide it – he wants to cut the VA,” Katie Smith, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Raw Story on Friday.

“Van Orden’s dangerous agenda...