Legislation

Committee Addresses Urgent Veterans Care Gaps

The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is set to take up more than two dozen bills on April 29 that collectively touch nearly every corner of how the federal...

Government Operations

House Appropriations Advances VA, IRS Bills in FY2027 Markup

Why it matters: The House Appropriations Committee held its first full committee markup of Fiscal Year 2027 on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, advancing two...

Defense

Committee Votes on Veterans, Defense, Federal Spending

The House Appropriations Committee's full-committee markup of the FY2027 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Financial Services and General...

Health

Veterans' Mental Health Care Access Behind Bars

An estimated 181,000 veterans are currently incarcerated in the United States — many carrying untreated PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual...

Congress

Veterans Disability Backlog: Accountability Hearing Demanded

The VA disability claims backlog isn't an abstraction. It represents veterans waiting — sometimes years — for decisions on benefits they earned through...

Congress

VA Pension Oversight Hearing Examines Vulnerable Veterans' Protection

More than $7.5 million in lobbying expenditures. Legislation pending in the House. A fiduciary oversight system that controls how vulnerable veterans manage...

Government Operations

Committee Questions VA Spending on Veterans Program

The House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity is set to scrutinize one of the VA's most consequential benefit programs — one that serves hundreds of...

Congress

National Guard Faces Budget Crisis Amid Domestic Deployments

The National Guard and Reserve Forces are heading into a budget hearing carrying a $2.7 billion unfunded priorities list, a funding request that is nearly 2...

Community Development and Housing

VA Home Loan Hearing Puts Veteran Affordability — and Republican Credibility — on the Line

The House Veterans' Affairs Economic Opportunity Subcommittee held a VA home loan hearing on March 26, 2026, focused on lowering costs for veteran families...

Legislation

A Rare Moment of Unity: Why 119 Lawmakers Are Backing the Love Lives On Act

In a Congress defined by gridlock and partisan warfare, a bill protecting the benefits of military surviving spouses has quietly assembled one of the most...

Congress

Senate Kills Veterans Disability Bill After House Hijacks It for Voter ID Fight

Republicans blocked a bill to create a VA advisory committee for disabled veterans — but the real fight was over what the bill had become.

Legislation

Veterans Benefits Fraud, Survivor Rights Drive Hearing

A widowed military spouse who remarries today loses her Dependency and Indemnity Compensation. A veteran who dies at home under hospice care may leave his...

Government Operations

VA's Digital G.I. Bill Fails: Billions Wasted, Vets Hurt

The House Veterans' Affairs Committee delivered a scathing assessment of the Digital G.I. Bill's implementation, exposing a $2.3 billion technology...

Elections

House Passes Trump's Election Overhaul 218-213, Gutting Bipartisan Veterans Accessibility Bill to Push Voter ID and Proof-of-Citizenship Requirements

A bipartisan Senate bill to help disabled veterans navigate the VA became the vehicle for one of the most polarizing election measures in years — passed on...

Legislation

Sen. Gallego Announces Planned Vote on Bill to Block Military Funeral Honors for Ashli Babbitt

Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat from Arizona, has introduced S.4126, a bill to formally declare Ashli Babbitt ineligible for military funeral honors —...

Defense

# Congress Demands Answers on V-22 Osprey Safety Failures

The V-22 Osprey — the military's only operational tiltrotor aircraft — remains at risk of catastrophic failure even as the Pentagon races to implement...

Government Operations

Committee Scrutinizes VA's Billion-Dollar Management Failures

The House Veterans Affairs Committee is putting the Department of Veterans Affairs' internal management under a microscope. A veterans affairs hearing...