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Lawmakers Suspend Confirmation Hearing for VA Secretary Nominee Ronny Jackson

HeadlineApr 25, 2018

Senate lawmakers have indefinitely postponed Dr. Ronny Jackson’s confirmation hearing as secretary of veterans affairs, even as President Trump is continuing to defend Jackson, who is his personal White House physician. On Tuesday, Montana Senator Jon Tester said Jackson is known within the White House as “candy man,” because he hands out prescription pills as if they were candy. Reports have also surfaced of Jackson drinking on the job, and once drunkenly banging on the hotel room door of a female employee during an overseas work trip in 2015, until the Secret Service intervened.

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