The Important Veterans Program Obama Wants to Cut

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The Obama administration outraged members of Congress on Monday by proposing to scale back a new program aimed at letting veterans access health care outside the VA system.

Last August, Congress passed a VA reform bill that created the Veterans Choice Program, which was supposed to be a way to speed up access to health care given the breakdown within the VA itself. President Barack Obama quickly signed it into law.

But on Monday, Obama released a budget plan that said he would try to pare it back, and would offer legislation to do so. ā€œIn the coming months, the administration will submit legislation to reallocate a portion of Veterans Choice Program funding to support essential investments in VA system priorities in a fiscally-responsible, budget-neutral manner,ā€ the budget said.

VA Secretary Robert McDonald added that he would propose this chance in order to provide hire vetsflexibility at the VA, inĀ order to ā€œserve veterans the way they want and deserve to be served.ā€

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