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White House pitches billions in supplemental funding for upcoming continuing resolution

With a short-term continuing resolution nearly inevitable to start the upcoming fiscal year, the White House submitted a lengthy list of budget anomalies it believes Congress should include in a temporary stop-gap funding bill.

Veterans Affairs

VA will miss its original 2022 deadline for resolving legacy appeals

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Virginia Congressmen want more telework flexibilities regardless of pandemic

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Sen. Gary Peters asks White House to launch a coronavirus website

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FDIC employees to get paid parental leave

Veterans Affairs

VA appeals modernization launch shows 'government working well,' agency says

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Nearly grounded a decade, NASA to resume manned spacecraft

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Veterans Affairs

VA's confidence about appeals modernization timeline soothes congressional skepticism

USPS coronavirus

Federal Newscast

Postal Service misjudged savings from downsizing facilities

David Shulkin

Veterans Affairs

As the Choice program runs out of money this year, VA reiterates need for a redesign

David Shulkin, Johnny Isakson, Jon Tester

Veterans Affairs

Congress takes another shot at fixing outdated, lengthy veterans appeals process

FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported Saturday, June 20, 2015, online ahead of its Sunday editions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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VA convenes summit with veterans advocates to fix appeals process

Congress

As VA works to eliminate one backlog, one more might emerge