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Senate committee presses VA on staffing cuts, contract cancellations and rulemaking delays
Summary
Senators pressed Department of Veterans Affairs officials at a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing to explain plans to cut thousands of VA employees, recent contract cancellations and a freeze on rulemaking that members said could delay implementation of laws for veterans.
Senators on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs pressed Department of Veterans Affairs officials on implementation steps for major department decisions and on the status of contracts and rulemaking that they said threaten veteran services.
The concern came during a hearing on a package of bills affecting veterans, when Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal raised recent reporting that the VA planned to cancel contracts, including research work with universities, and said oversight questions had gone unanswered. “The VA has no more foundational and essential purpose than stopping veterans suicide,” Blumenthal said, adding that the committee had received no information on the cancelled contracts and that he had…
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