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Colorado VA hospital in shambles, executives beg for more money from Congress

By The Daily Caller  
   March 20, 2015

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it needs $930 million to finish constructing a new hospital in Denver. Republican Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, says the VA needs to fire senior executives. When the sorely needed project first started, the VA proposed a cost estimate of $328 million, the Washington Post reports. VA executives first drew up plans for a new hospital after realizing the aging Denver VA hospital, built in 1951, could no longer accommodate the growing number of veterans, according to The Denver Post. Veterans often complained that the facility was "threadbare."

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