The appropriations plan would add more than $80 billion to the current VA funding level, giving the department its biggest budget ever.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Hegseth for justifications and transparency before any decisions to dismiss senior uniformed leaders.
Eighty years ago, Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.
Former president Jimmy Carter, a Navy veteran, passed away Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia.
