Leo Shane III

GOP Senate leaders said they are working with VA officials on ways to ensure that plans to cut 80,000 jobs don’t dismantle department services.

The six-month budget bill must be approved by lawmakers before Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of March 10, 2025.

A previous plan to deploy the controversial health records system to more VA hospitals in mid-2026 was short-sighted and slow, the new VA secretary said.

The president said the new effort will focus on ways to “resurrect the American shipbuilding industry.”