{"id":135115,"date":"2022-12-21T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135115"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:11:25","slug":"the-vas-budget-could-top-300-billion-for-fiscal-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135115","title":{"rendered":"The VA’s budget could top $300 billion for fiscal 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Congressional negotiators are working the details of a budget that could give the VA a budget that tops $300 billion. The VA is looking to receive $303.8 billion for fiscal 2023 if this is finalized and approved. From this total, $118.7 billion would go into VA medical care services. The Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says that this would be a responsible plan to support veterans and national defense.<\/p>\n

From the Navy Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to finalize later this week includes $303.8 billion in VA funding for fiscal 2023, the largest ever for the department. That\u2019s up about 10% from fiscal 2022 levels.<\/p>\n

VA medical care services would be the main beneficiary of the funding boost, seeing more than a 22% increase ($118.7 billion) from fiscal 2022 levels.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), called the appropriations package a responsible plan for supporting veterans, national defense and a host of other government priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pain of inflation on American families is real, and it is being felt right now across the federal government,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom funding for nutrition programs and housing assistance, to home energy costs and college affordability, our bipartisan, bicameral, omnibus appropriations bill directly invests in providing relief from the burden of inflation on the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers need to finalize the funding plan by the end of the week or risk triggering a partial government shutdown just before the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n

If approved, the VA appropriations would continue a string of significant yearly increases for the department\u2019s spending.<\/p>\n

In 2001, the entire VA budget \u2014 including both discretionary program spending and mandatory benefits payouts \u2014 amounted to about $45 billion. By 2013, the budget totaled $139 billion, still less than half of this year\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

For fiscal 2023, the discretionary program portion of VA\u2019s budget alone totals $135.2 billion.<\/p>\n

It includes $2.7 billion for homeless prevention programs (up 25% from last year), $1.9 billion for caregiver programs (up $35%), $13.9 billion for mental health care (up 6%), and $916 million for medical and prosthetics research (up 4%).<\/p>\n

The bill also includes $5 billion for the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund, which provides additional money for implementation of the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, better known as the PACT Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Navy Times has additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congressional negotiators are working the details of a budget that could give the VA a budget … The VA’s budget could top $300 billion for fiscal 2023<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}