Sources: Veterans Affairs misleading Trump on health of agency

By SARAH WESTWOOD (@SARAHCWESTWOOD) Department of Veterans Affairs officials may be misleading members of President-elect Trumps transition team about the health of the agency amid a push by some outside veterans service organizations to convince Trump to keep VA Secretary Robert McDonald in his Cabinet sources with knowledge of the situation say. The VA is trying to paint a much rosier picture of the state of affairs ... for the transition team than is reality one source told the Washington Examiner. Another source close to the landing team Trump sent to the VA said transition officials had received an anonymous tip from a whistleblower warning that some of the information they had been given by the agency was misleading. The VA rejected suggestions that officials had spun the statistics provided to Trumps transition team.