I am also concerned with House efforts to rescind $1.8 billion we already appropriated for delivering veterans' health care.
I have said many times that Congress needs to take its cues from the veterans.
I think that both the Secretary and you gentlemen have shared valuable insight as we move forward with the appropriations process for 2024.
Delivering more money for veterans is not the solution, but delivering better outcomes is.
I believe what he says when he says that we want to make sure that veterans' benefits and health care and programs are funded.
We make a promise to those who serve our country to deliver for them, and if the VA is going to make good on that promise, they have to have...
We send folks off to war, we put it on the credit card. They come back and we make excuses not to fund their benefits.
Our next step cannot be to immediately renege on that pledge.
Getting this fix signed into law by the President is vital, because needed forest management needs to continue versus being delayed by litig...
the President was the one who was telling the truth.
Unfortunately, we are not in that boat. The folks here in Congress, I think, have forgot what our mission is.
I represent Montana, we have a very large veterans population, 10 percent of our population, and we started working on compacts and the reci...
