The care of veterans continues to be one of the chief concerns for the U.S. government.

While running for the office of U.S. senator, California Attorney General Kamala Harris promised voters she would “clean up” the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

In fact, during the campaign, Harris tweeted, “22 veterans take their own lives each day.”

PolitiFact Florida heard the claim and put to their Truth-O-Meter. It received a MOSTLY TRUE rating.

Writer Josh Gillin said the statement steams from a VA study performed in 2012. It sampled about 20 states from 1999 to 2011.

“It came with a lot of caveats there: how the states were sampled, how it was factoring in the range here,” Gillin said. “What it said was 18 to 22 veterans per day, unfortunately, commit suicide."

It was for that reason, PolitiFact Florida rated the claim MOSTLY TRUE.

SOURCES:  20 veteran suicides every day, CA attorney general says