"This budget request will ensure VA is moving swiftly and smartly into the future, with much-needed monetary investments in our most successful and vital programs."
"This Budget ensures all Veterans, including women Veterans, Veterans of color, and LGBTQ+ Veterans, receive the care and benefits they have earned."
"veterans in our care do better than veterans not in our care."
"every decision I make will be based on increasing access and improving outcomes for veterans."
"I think it is principally due to telehealth."
"In short, this proposed budget allows us to deliver high-quality whole health care and benefits to our veterans."
"The budget provides needed funding for women veterans."
"And this budget allows us to continue our success in reducing veteran's homelessness, building on the success of the last decade during which we decreased veteran homelessness by 50 percent."
"The budget ensures we can continue the growth and success of our Caregiver Support Program by fully integrating families and caregivers into the care plans of the veterans they love."
"Veterans need deserve a thriving direct care system for generations to come, because it provides high quality, evidence-based, integrated care tailored to their unique needs."
"As well as an effective backstop to our country's health care system, VA's Fourth Mission has been critically important during this pandemic, as well as multiple other national disasters."
"I do believe we should be. And I think that we are."