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Appropriations feud after VA notifies Congress of transfers to community care
Summary
House appropriators pressed Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Collins over notifications the department sent in April indicating transfers of unobligated funds to VA community care. Committee members said the moves required formal reprogramming requests under the Appropriations Act; VA said it provided notice and followed OMB guidance.
House appropriators and the Department of Veterans Affairs tussled over the legality and transparency of transfers of unobligated VA funds to the department’s community care account.
The dispute came during Secretary Collins’s appearance before the House Appropriations subcommittee on the VA budget when members said they received only a notification — not a formal reprogramming request — after the department announced it would move money into community care. "You are required to send us a reprogramming request, not a notification," Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz…
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