Julia Brownley: “It is the undoing of bias and the building of trust that VA must work toward.”

I will just say to the VA and to the management of the VA that we all know that this is a crisis situation.

It is frustrating that the VA has not made more progress addressing these challenges, most of which long predate the COVID-19 pandemic.

This legislation will increase the mileage reimbursement rate for VA's Beneficiary Travel Program.

We envisioned it to not only as a raise for those who are already maxed out, but as an opportunity for VA to reassess nurse and physician assistants pay across the board.