host: dan caldwell.st: our organization is focused on ensuring that veterans get access to the best health care possible and that they have control over their health care. whether through a va hospital or private provider. the v.a. should be looking at hospitals and clinics that are over capacity or under capacity and the ones that are under capacity should look at downsizing. the ones over capacity should expand the. this is something that was supposed to be done through the commission that was unfortunately shut down by the united states senate. i think that's a real disappointment that that isn't going forward because ultimately at the end of the day it's just going to allow resources to continue to be wasted on va hospital's and clinics that really aren't set up to serve veterans the best. in closing, even if the va hospital is shut down, it doesn't mean the services are going to go away. they will likely be shifted to a clinic, private public partnerships with other medical facilities in the region.

joining now with more is the senior advisor in marine that dan caldwell. a poison tree from the beginning, the rationale for the executive to cancel the debt was that it's a covid emergency just like troops deployed in 2003 from the heroes act? >> that's correct. you pointed out to come intent of the law was to help reserve national guardsmen who had to walk away from their civilian jobs to deploy in support of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. many of whom were taking pay cuts to do this, it's only fair that they received some student loan debt relief. and there's a reference in the law to national emergencies and the biden administration is claiming that well of a covert is a national emergency and therefore we have the power to do it. here's the thing, just about a month and half ago, justification to basically undo two immigration policies that trump put in place. the biden administration said there's not a kovic of an emergency so we don't need to have the title 42 in place and remain in mexico policy. you should not be surprised by this at all and we

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