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Lawmakers are being evicted from V.A. Medical Centers before 2020

Washington D.C. — Florida lawmakers are being asked to vacate their field offices in V.A. medical center locations by the end of the year.

In a letter to lawmakers from V.A Secretary Robert Wilkie,  the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has decided that hospital space should be used only for delivering medical care to veterans.

The letter noted that only six members of congress have offices in VA facilities nationwide.

Here in Central Florida, Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy and Congressman Darren Soto share an office at the Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lake Nona, which opened in February to serve veterans seeking congressional assistance.

Several lawmakers, including Rep. Murphy have sent letters to Wilkie to  appeal the decision.

Murphy claims her staff in Lake Nona is getting 25-30 walk-in appointments a week, writing,  “The VA’s unilateral decision to prohibit this arrangement, without giving me or other members of Congress an opportunity to explain its merits, strikes me as unwise.”

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