Rick Scott, Donald Trump to be together on Wednesday

Rick Scott kicks off a podcast with a very special guest.

So much for not having a “partner” in the White House.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who bemoaned the lack of effective White House partnership for the first six years of his tenure, closes out his time in Tallahassee with close political ally Donald Trump heading the Executive Branch.

Scott will be at the White House at 11:30 a.m. for a bill signing: the Veterans Choice Program Extension and Improvement Act.

“My father served in WWII and I proudly served in the United States Navy, and I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to our military and our veterans. I look forward to joining him today as he signs this important bill for our veterans,” Scott said in a statement.

The ultimate importance of this bill is in question. The bill will be a stopgap measure, asserts Trump’s own Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

“We need to make sure the Choice program not only continues, but it works better for veterans,” he said. “And we know it hasn’t worked the way we wanted it to work. It’s too complex; it’s too hard to use. So we are working hard now with Congress to redesign a better, improved way of accessing care in the community,” asserted VA Secretary David Shulkin.

Another issue that needs a fix: a backlog in internal disability claims, related to a shortage of staff to process them.

Don’t expect the bill signing ceremony to get too deep into those issues.