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Since July, Congress has been informed that the VA will see a $3 billion shortfall for the rest of this year and a $12 billion shortfall in its budget for fiscal 2025.
According to Jim Whaley, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, Congress must work fast to close the shortfall and put in safeguards to ensure this does not happen again.. “Their health is at stake. Livelihoods are at stake, and so this is an important issue that needs to be fixed, and then, not only fixed, but make sure we put the process together so that this doesn’t happen every year.
“The lack of VA accountability is happening as VA has completely lost control of its budget and has IT projects ballooning by tens of billions of dollars,” Bost said during a hearing. “That includes the Digital G.I. Bill, Financial Management Business Transformation, and the electronic health record system.”
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