GOP senator blocks Biden nominee to force answers from VA

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GOP senator blocks Biden nominee to force answers from VA
By Leo Shane III
Mar 15, 03:02 PM
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questions a witness at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 3, 2020. (Greg Nash/AP)

Veterans Affairs officials will have to keep waiting for their next permanent head of benefits operations after a Republican senator on Tuesday announced his plan to block the White House’s nominee for the post over unresolved whistleblower allegations concerning the department.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement that the move is both a general reprimand to the department and a specific complaint leveled against Joshua Jacobs, the nominee to serve as VA’s Under Secretary of Benefits. Jacobs is currently working in an acting capacity in that leadership role.

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