The House proposed $1.4 billion reduction of the VA's budget request would mean $688 million less for veterans' medical care and a 50 percent cut in VA's construction budget.
Critique of proposed budget cuts affecting veterans' medical care and facility construction.
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Congress must act or veterans will suffer. That is unacceptable to me and I know that it is unacceptable to you.
I am fully committed to fulfilling this charge to me, that is, to transform the Department of Veterans Affairs into an organization that delivers on its mission.
That mission is to fulfill President Lincoln's promise 'to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.'
We take them very seriously because they are an opportunity to improve, and we remediate every single finding they come up with.