John Bel Edwards: “I am proud of the new congressional leadership in providing $6 billion increase over 2007 for VA health care, because…”

“I am proud of the new congressional leadership in providing $6 billion increase over 2007 for VA health care, because you can't repair VA hospitals without funding. You can't hire 1,100 new case workers to reduce the intolerable delay of combat-wounded veterans to get their benefits without money. Money is a necessary, perhaps not sufficient, solution but absolutely necessary to provide the veterans health care and benefits that they have earned by sacrificing for our country.”