VA gets Shorted $2.6 Billion while Obama Admin Budgets $4.5 Billion on Syrians Migrants

TruthIandAction ^ | 09/28/15 | ???

[blueyon]

Yes, it could get bigger.

It also could mean furloughs, hiring freezes and program cancellations if a solution can’t be found.

“We are going to do the right thing for veterans and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars,” VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson told members of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Thursday. “But to succeed, we need the flexibility to use funds to meet veterans needs as they arise.”

Without that, he said, “we get to dire circumstances before August. We will have to start denying care to some veterans.”

Lawmakers were enraged that the department is only now informing them of significant shortfalls in this year’s budget, with the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

“I have come to expect a startling lack of transparency and accountability from VA over the last years,” said committee chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. “But failing to inform Congress of a multibillion-dollar funding deficit until this late in the fiscal year … is disturbing on an entirely different level.”

Source: Military Times Meanwhile, back at the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest says the United States will direct $4.5 billion to help address the dire conditions inside Syria and in refugee camps scattered across the region.

[blueyon]

I DO NOT know if this is true or not....as this is comes up in a search as some stories are satire....but I assume it is true. This story hurts, Our veterans deserve the best. Not lack of funds to deal with but we find the money for outsiders.... Question: when will we get loud enough that congress will start to listen to us?

[Tennessee Nana]

Yes well the House Bill tp restrict the “Syrians passed 289-137 so that $4.5 Billion wont be needed..

But since its already budgeted it can go to the American veterans...

[GeronL]

I keep forgetting that if a government program doesn’t grow by 5-6% a year the left says its a “cut”

[blueyon]

“Yes well the House Bill tp restrict the “Syrians passed 289-137 so that $4.5 Billion wont be needed..

But since its already budgeted it can go to the American veterans...”

I think it means...Obama gets his way and the GOP are running cover for him per 1 story I read....stricter rules to come in here, means we have to look into them more.....but from what I heard, there is no paper work/background checks to look into people with NO paper trail.....we lose. They will spend the 4.5 billion on them

[Ann Archy]

If this is true, a MILLION MAN MILITARY MARCH MUST HAPPEN!!!!

[Cyman]

The man is a walking obscenity

[hal ogen]

How can this be??? I thought the mental-midget, anti-American faux president and his grifter wife, the moocher, loved the Veterans.

[W.]

Bet a week’s pay the military would enjoy raining $4.5 billion worth of ordnance down upon D.C.!

[huldah1776]

combined sources written in one blog post? replies from Sept 21 (I wish bloggers dated their articles but this is still very, very relevant since the VA crud is piled under all else again).

$2.6 billion VA shortfall raises more criticism, anger

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/benefits/veterans/2015/06/25/va-budget-shortfall-raises-more-criticism-anger/29275741/

The Latest: US to give $419 million in aid to Syria refugees

http://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-us-to-give-419-million-in-aid-to-syria-refugees/

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

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