One of my first official acts as king will be to shut down the VA. Veterans' benefits can be administered by one of the other check cutting agencies for the time being. The hospitals will all be closed and sold, and veterans' subsidized health care will be handled like health insurance. This is bound to be cheaper and more convenient for the veterans. The graveyards will be administered by one of the other property administering agencies, and future burials will be in private graveyards with perhaps a modest burial benefit. This way, we can free a quarter of a million federal bureaucrats for productive service in the private sector without touching veterans' programs (at least not yet).
On the same day, I will close the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribes will just have to get along without a Great White Father in Washington. We will settle all obligations under treaties for present value and let the tribes govern themselves as they please.
Pretty good work for one morning.
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