I keep hearing this IS a republican failure that they are holding up the funding??
Is there any truth to this?
The growth in the VA budget has been second to only two other agencies over the past 15 years...by about 3 times. One of those was Homeland Security, which scarcely existed 15 years ago.
The past five years, the VA has actually reported a surplus of funds they were unable to spend for at least five years.
According to analysis, there has been funding carry overs the past 5 years now.
“VA carried over $1.449 billion in medical-care funding from fiscal year 2010 to 2011, $1.163 billion from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2012, $637 million from fiscal year 2012 to 2013, and $543 million from fiscal year 2013 to 2014.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...are-funding-than-it-can-spend-for-fifth-year/
“I keep hearing this IS a republican failure that they are holding up the funding??”......
When the VA already has more money than they can spend, I would expect the answer to your question is evident.