...for as long as it takes
Veterans Shortchanged By President’s VA Budget
Background
Status:
Action Needed:
The attached is a list of House Appropriation Committee members. Write
to
the congress member from your state and/or district and tell them that the
Administration’s VA budget is inadequate to meet the health care needs of
our nation’s veterans . Request that the congress member take steps to
increase the VA funding when it comes before the Appropriations Committee
for consideration.
The suggested address style is:
The Honorable _________
Sent in by Veterans News and Information Services
The President’s FY 2000 budget for the VA has been submitted to Congress and
once again it is clear that veterans are not a priority of this
Administration. Under the current budget, funding for veterans medical care
and other programs will be essentially frozen at the same level as was
provided over the last three fiscal years despite the availability of a huge
budget surplus! The VFW estimates that the Administration’s health care
request falls $3 billion short of what is needed to effectively provide for
the health-care needs of our nations veterans. Also, veterans claims are
backlogged and delayed due to staff cuts and inadequate funding which
adversely affect the quality and timeliness of veterans’ claims processing.
Congress has not as of yet released its budget recommendations for the VA.
The VFW testified before the full VA committee as well as the VA
subcommittee with respect to this inadequate budget. As in the past years,
we expect the battle over the VA budget to be long and protracted. We will
keep you informed of future developments.
Write a brief letter to the congress member from your district
expressing
your dissatisfaction with the president’s VA budget proposal. Let the
member know that it is up to Congress to make veterans a national priority.
Request that your member of Congress take steps to increase the VA funding
when it comes before the House Appropriations Committee.
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
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