Blumenthal, top VA Democrat, says he regrets confirming Sec. Collins

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Blumenthal, top VA Democrat, says he regrets confirming Sec. Collins

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal. (Molly Ingram / WSHU)U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Wednesday he was outraged with the Trump administration’s firing of more than 1,000 Veterans Affairs employees. According to the VA, the terminations, which amount to more than 2% of the VA workforce, were among probationary, non-union employees who had been in their roles for less than a year.They initially included at least two crisis hotline empl…