House passes budget bill for Veterans Affairs, military construction
The bill includes $450 billion for the VA, a 3% increase from the current fiscal year but less than the Trump administration requested.
By Patricia Kime
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Why is it taking so long to identify America’s unknown fallen heroes?
Forensic DNA experts say it should take the Pentagon years—not decades—to ID the remains of thousands of nameless service members in military cemeteries.
By Ken McLaughlin, The War Horse
Lawmakers introduce bill to lower drug costs for service members, veterans
The proposal would allow Tricare beneficiaries and VA patients to pay the lowest government-negotiated price for prescription drugs.
By Tanya Noury
VA shuttering underperforming clinics, addressing leadership shortcomings at others
The VA is closing underperforming clinics and addressing issues at troubled facilities, VA Secretary Doug Collins says.
By Patricia Kime
Vietnam veteran, daughter sue VA over Agent Orange birth defect benefits
The VA provides disability compensation for birth defects to the children of women Vietnam veterans, but not to the children of men who served in the war.
By Patricia Kime
Trump clears path for expanded psychedelic research to treat veterans’ PTSD
The order commits at least $50 million in federal funds to boost research on ibogaine, a powerful hallucinogen.
By Tanya Noury
Bill from vets in Congress would keep military roles open to women
The bill, which lacks Republican sponsors, is explicitly described as a response to the Pentagon review of women in ground combat roles.
By Hope Hodge Seck
Trump’s VA budget request tops $488 billion for fiscal 2027
The Department of Veterans Affairs would see its budget increase by 7.7% in fiscal 2027 under the White House’s proposed $2.2 trillion budget.
By Patricia Kime
Former VA executive charged with accepting $16K worth of gifts
The senior VA official has been charged with failing to disclose gifts he received from contractors working on the project he oversaw.
By Patricia Kime
Senate rejects proposal to overturn VA’s abortion ban
Senators voted 50-48, quashing an effort to overturn the VA's near-total ban on abortions and abortion counseling.
By Patricia Kime
59% of Americans feel US military offensive against Iran has ‘gone too far’
Most Americans think Operation Epic Fury has gone too far, a new poll found.
By Tanya Noury
VA social worker dies following shooting at rural Georgia clinic
The Veterans Affairs employee died the day after being shot by an assailant who was in the clinic for a walk-in mental health consultation.
By Patricia Kime