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These programs still receive funding through the annual appropriations process, despite their expired authorizations. “Veteran’s health care was last reauthorized in 1996 and that ...
One is the Veterans’ Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, which helps provide funding for veterans’ medical care. The authorization expired in 1998, but still receives about $120 ...
“The VA will always treat veterans for emergency issues and vaccinations, but they can’t treat all vets for everything. ... Potential Budget Cuts to VA Programs. While budget cuts can be ...
Senior director for federal budget policy Bobby Kogan at the Center for American Progress said that the "threat level for DOGE's recommendations making it through Congress is relatively low", [65] and that $2 trillion in cuts would likely result in 33% cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and every program relating to veterans compensation and ...
As Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt had campaigned for the Presidency, in part, on a pledge to balance the federal budget. [4] [5] On March 10, 1933, six days after his inauguration, Roosevelt submitted legislation to Congress which would cut $500 million ($8.181 billion in 2009 dollars) from the $3.6 billion federal budget by eliminating government agencies, reducing the pay of ...
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the recently announced co-leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), teased plans for "mass reductions" in the federal workforce and ...
Starting April 1, 2013 the sequester cut 2% of the Medicare budget, primarily targeting oncologist reimbursements. [22] Since oncologists cannot change the drug prices, they argue that the entire 2 percent cut will have to come out of the 6 percent overhead they use to cover the cost of storing and administering the medication. [23]
Accountability measures for these budget failures should include an independent audit of VA finances, subpoenaing records, freezing senior executive bonuses and cuts to the VA secretary’s office.