They’re trying to blame it on the sequester, which was an egg Obama hatched but subsequently has placed blame on the GOP.
I thought 0 HAD to sign the sequestration bill to avoid an economic crisis/collapse. (/s)
Besides that, wasn't the VA omitted from the budget cuts? Here's a little snippet from WaComPost....
One federal department stands conspicuously protected from the automatic budget cuts falling across the government: the Department of Veterans Affairs with its 300,000 employees and $140 billion budget, a mammoth agency second in size only to the Defense Department.
The exemption, carved out in the legislation establishing the cuts, reflected rare bipartisan agreement in Washington that the VA should be spared the threatened budget turmoil.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/va-dodges-budget-cuts-but-veterans-will-still-feel-effects-of-the-sequester/2013/03/08/f5266034-8527-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html