You have thousands of veterans waiting too long for benefits—I would say that “we” have thousands of veterans who are waiting too long for benefits that they've earned. The disability benefit staffing has seen a reduction. You've called it “sunsetting”, and it's by 20%. The concern that I have and that I'm looking to drill down to is, how does that help to clear the backlog?
Will you guarantee today that the changes being made—“sunsetting” or however you'd like to characterize it, even if differently from how I've read it in the departmental plan—won't increase the number of veterans waiting beyond your established service standard?