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 informed lawmakers that their fiscal 2025 budget was already on track to come up short by $12 billion and that the agency was about $3 billion short of meeting expenses for fiscal 2024. The VA’s unexpected announcement of record shortfalls prompted stern rebukes from lawmakers. […]
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The democrats want to replace American soldiers with foreigners. Biden’s DOD has already solicited foreigners with promises of leadership positions. Read the DOD Directives. There’s been a pattern of danger for our soldiers dying in places they don’t belong. But this is a slap in the face – bim bam thank you man, but we don’t need you anymore. So a foreign army won’t be restricted by any dusty old Constitution or Supreme Court opinions. And the generals we have will be sent out to pasture and replaced with people who just don’t give a damn.