As he said in his Times op-ed, Shulkin told Tapper than some political appointees "saw me as an obstacle," and "when they didn't see that their way was being adopted, used subversive techniques to be able to change leadership at the VA."
Shulkin also spoke with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday and said, "I had been at the VA under the Obama administration and I knew ways that we needed to move forward and transform the VA and it wasn't to simply privatize. It was to begin to start modernizing the VA, give veterans greater choice, which we've done, and this was a path forward."
"I do believe," he added, "that the issue at hand is the future of VA and whether it's going to be privatized or not."
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