The VA expects to submit a new infrastructure plan to lawmakers in the first half of the new year, focused on expanding its footprint of facilities as it prepares for a historic expansion of veteran health care and benefits under the PACT Act.
But before it can act on its infrastructure plan, Undersecretary for Health Shereef Elnahal said VA needs Congress to pass a comprehensive spending deal for the rest of fiscal 2023.
“We are going as full speed ahead as we can with our current authorities on strategic prioritization of new infrastructure projects,” Elnahal told reporters on Tuesday. “All of that is in the works, going through the gears of the agency to approve that strategic prioritization. We can’t do any of that without the funding, and it remains absolutely critical that we get infrastructure funding in this next budget,” Elnahal said… Read the full article here.
