WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) – ranking member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee – today spoke before the Senate Appropriations Committee regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nearly $15 billion funding shortfall.

“I’m committed to making sure veterans and survivors do not suffer because of what I think is significant financial mismanagement or incompetence at the Department of Veterans Affairs,” said Sen. Moran. “I am gravely concerned that the administration, both at VA and OMB specifically, misled Congress for months about the state of affairs at VA and the level of resources that are actually needed to care for veterans and their survivors.”

VA recently briefed Congress on a mandatory funding shortfall of approximately $3 billion in the compensation and pension and readjustment benefits accounts in FY2024 and a discretionary funding shortfall of approximately $12 billion in its medical care accounts in FY2025.

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