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These people should not be let off the hook.

Can you please outline the incremental costs that will be incurred by VA for implementation of the PACT Act?

So that would be another impact of the budget cuts?

What can you put in place to really facilitate that transition?

Yeah. I get that a lot from widows.

But let me just emphasize and lift up the comments that you made with respect to the impact that the proposed cuts, either reverting back to the fiscal year 2022 funding levels or reducing the budget to 22 percent of the current budget…

VA's $20.3 billion request for the Toxic Exposures Fund is not credible.

I anticipate we will fully fund veterans' healthcare and other programs for fiscal year 2024.

He requests as what Ms. Wasserman Schultz indicated, an 80 percent increase for army family housing construction.

The President in his 2024 budget request asked for over 2.6 billion for army military construction.

Republican calls for spending cuts and capping discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2022 levels would appear to under-invest in our army military construction.

When soldiers and spouses and family members are satisfied with their quality of life, they are more likely to continue to serve.

Food insecurity is a national security concern as a need to support health outcomes, affect recruiting and retention of our military personnel.

I have always thought we would learn more from this particular gathering of our warriors than anything we do in this committee.

It is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that every single penny of American taxpayer money is being effectively used as intended.

This should not be politicized. It's not about race. Fentanyl doesn't care about race.

But 100,000 die every year and nothing's being done. Not enough is being done. Numbers are going up, not down.

Now, if we had Chinese troops lining up along our Southern Border with weapons aimed at our people, with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our cities, you damn well know you would do something about it.