House lawmakers say the Veterans Affairs Department’s $2.6 billion budget shortfall for this fiscal year is further proof of administrators’ incompetence and poor planning.
VA officials have a slightly different take, saying the shortfall is a sign of their extraordinary efforts to get veterans the medical care they need, regardless of the cost.
Either way, the department has a gigantic deficit to fill in the next three months. A bigger difficulty on the next page: [nextpagelink][/nextpagelink]

money taken from SS since Johnson in fact I think he started it
What happened to the Repubs 2 should have been all but then again who is going to be in charge of spending for veteran
what the hell is wrong with this
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Obama is an IDIOT!
Obama is the Antichrist what do you expect?
Unacceptable time for states to stand up to D C
obama is a thug, puke
congress should have shut him down already but WHY haven’t they==what good has congress been– and exactly why didn’t the bill pass in the Senate–onlly 2 repubs voting for it??? What is the problem here??There is a desparate need for Vet services and need a overhall of our so called Vet hospitals-spent all that $$$ on investigations of such and seems like all they’ve done is talk.
You are probably right because I don’t really know who started it but it keeps getting worse every year and they have never repaid it at least I don’t believe they have.