Veterans Affairs Gets Ernst ‘Squeal Award’ for Dirty Facilities, Shortage of Janitorial Staff, Too Many PR Operatives

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in the Senate subway area of the Capitol before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Dozens of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities lack required levels of cleanliness due to shortage of custodial staff, even as the department fattens up the ranks of its public relations experts, according to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).

The VA’s accounting and grant-management records are also severely lacking, Ernst said in a statement made available to The Epoch Times late on July 30.