VA

Secretary Shulkin considering closing over 1,100 VA facilities

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/secretary-shulkin-considering-closing-over-1100-va-facilities/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=37185512&utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jolt_5/4/2017&utm_term=Jolt

Excerpt: At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA had identified more than 430 vacant buildings and 735 that he described as underutilized, costing the federal government $25 million a year. He said the VA would work with Congress in prioritizing buildings for closure and was considering whether to follow a process the Pentagon had used in recent decades to decide which of its underused military bases to shutter, known as Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC.