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GOP plan provides $453 billion for VA programs, benefits next year
The spending plan for Veterans Affairs next year is up significantly from current levels but is about $1 billion less than what the White House wanted.
New in 2021: Confirmation timing for new DoD, VA secretaries could be tricky
Uncertainty over Senate control could push hearings, votes well past the inauguration.
VA ends 2020 with more than 6,500 coronavirus deaths and 150,000 infections
The total veteran deaths equate to roughly 22 a day since the start of the pandemic, making coronavirus more deadly than the roughly 17 veterans a day lost to suicide.
December is now the VA’s deadliest month for coronavirus as deaths top 6,000
The VA is now reporting more than 50 veterans dying every day from complications linked to the coronavirus.
VA gets big funding increase in final fiscal 2021 budget deal
The department's budget will rise to $243 billion in 2021, nearly double what it was a decade ago.
Here are 128 new VA sites for veterans, staff to get coronavirus vaccine
By the end of the week, more than 150 VA sites will be administering the vaccine.
After controversial event on sexual assault support, VA postpones future telephone town halls
Veterans who participated in the event said they were given little or no warning about potentially traumatic discussion points.
‘I hung up and vomited’ — Veteran sexual assault survivors say VA’s outreach retraumatized them
Veterans said they were thrust into public discussions of military sexual trauma topics without warning or proper support.
VA workers feel ‘shut out’ of COVID planning
American Federation of Government Employees officials said that Veterans Affairs facilities have kept them out of the decision making process to address COVID-19.
By Jessie Bur