Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins told Newsmax on Friday that the “laissez-faire attitude” about his department that he first encountered ended in early February when his tenure began.

“You would be amazed what we found coming here,” Collins said on “Newsline.” “Look, I got a lot of great folks who work for the VA, some wonderful employees, but what we have found is there was just seemingly a lack of what we’ll call structural awareness.

“When you look at that, you add things that don’t need to be added in ways and places that shouldn’t have been added and it took away from probably places where we could have done better, which is veterans’ care, health care, and also veterans’ benefits.

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