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The White House’s Monday announcement that veterans’ health programs would not be subject to reductions under sequestration was too little, too late for the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman. Read more »

The White House Office of Management and Budget ended months of political and media conjecture Monday when officials announced that programs under the Department of Veterans Affairs, including healthcare, would not be subject to the $500 billion tranche of budget cuts scheduled to hit the Defense Department if sequestration takes effect. Read more »

Funding for veterans’ health care programs is not subject to sequestration, the White House budget office announced Monday, ending months of speculation about how across-the-board budget cuts could be applied early next year if Congress cannot find a way to avoid fiscal disaster. Read more »

Administration officials ruled Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs will be exempt from massive federal budget cuts scheduled to go into effect early next year. Read more »

Key lawmakers are appealing directly to President Obama to get the Veterans Affairs Department to provide free health care to veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune during a 30-year span that ended in 1987. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs has greatly overstated how quickly it provides mental-health care for veterans, according to an inspector general’s report released Monday. Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs would be exempt from automatic, across-the-board reductions in federal budget growth that could take effect in January, the Obama administration said Monday. Read more »

Syracuse University hosted the "Conference on Engaging Community Support for Veterans" to help veterans in Central New York. It happened Friday morning at the OnCenter, hosted by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle. Read more »

Calling the slow progress on the much-delayed Orlando VA Medical Center "unacceptable," U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, chastised VA officials as she toured the construction site Monday. Read more »

Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs think they would be safe from automatic, across-the-board budget reductions set to take effect in January. But they aren’t positive. Read more »