Veterans’ medical care got a big budget boost, thanks to a unanimous Senate vote, approving an increase of $4 billion to the VA’s Fiscal 2006 budget. The boost should cure the shortfall the VA says it identified after turning in its 2006 budget request. (Read our report on the shortfall here.)
Unit commanders are being told to separate service members who can’t shave their cheeks and chin for medical reasons for more than a year, according to new guidance from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
