The men and women who’ve defended our nation should not have the veterans benefits they earned threatened by fiscal mismanagement.
That’s why Republican lawmakers introduced a supplemental appropriations bill to provide an additional $2.9 billion to cover shortfalls in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ budget for fiscal year 2024.
However, this supplemental spending bill shouldn’t have been necessary and lawmakers need to act now to prevent cuts to military veterans’ services in fiscal year 2025. Fortunately, there’s some low-hanging fruit they can, and should, grab.
But first, a little context behind these surprise shortfalls.
In March, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs submitted its budget request for fiscal 2025, which begins Oct. 1.
Just four months later, in July, chief financial officers from the VA…
