Sanders: Removal of Shulkin Is About Trying to Privatize the VA and Handing It Over to Koch Brothers

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SANDERS: "I do, absolutely. But this is part of a broader approach of the trump Administration. Let us be clear and Dr. Shulkin made this point in an op Ed the other day in the “The New York Times” and the issue is, you have the Koch brothers, the third wealthiest family in this country who are going to spend some $400 million with their billionaire friends in the coming elections have enormous power over the trump Administration and what the Koch brothers believe is not just that we have to privatize the veterans administration, they want to privatize Medicare and the Trump Administration had a $500 billion cut in Medicare. They want to privatize Medicaid. They had a trillion dollars cut in Medicaid. They’re beginning to go after Social Security. We have a secretary of education who does not believe in public education. A secretary of the environmental EPA who does not believe in environmental protection. So what’s you’re looking at under the leadership of the Koch brothers is a massive effort to privatize agency of the united States government and give them over to private corporations. That is what the removal of shulkin is all about."