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.)
The U.S. Air Force began deportation flights of people held in detention by Customs and Border Protection, U.S. officials said Jan. 24. One C-17 took off from Biggs Army Air Field, Texas, and another C-17 took off from Tucson, Arizona, a defense official told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The…