“The Department of Veterans Affairs is one step closer to securing its largest budget in history at more than $250 billion, continuing a trend of the government’s second-largest agency expanding rapidly in size to support a growing and aging veterans population.”
“House Appropriations subcommittee members on Monday forwarded a bill funding the VA at unprecedented levels to its full committee to send to the House floor for a vote. The bill gives more money to the VA than the $243.3 billion requested by President Donald Trump in the proposed 2021 budget from the White House.”
“The funding proposal boosts virtually all of the department’s major services and priorities of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie and Capitol Hill: suicide prevention, women’s health care and a $1.1 billion boost to implement the agency’s troubled health records system…”
“The VA’s budget still has a long way to go before being finalized, including a compromise budget negotiated by House and Senate lawmakers and a full vote from each chamber.”
“Here are the highlights of what the House Appropriations subcommittee bill includes…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA is approaching a historically high $250.9 billion budget – By Steve Beynon, July 7, 2020. Stars and Stripes.
