March 21, 2003
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The timing of this astounds me.
The house budget committee just passed a budget resolution that will : Cut $844 million from veterans’ medical care next year and $9.7 billion over the next 10 years. Additionally, there’s another cut of $15 billion from disability compensation and other vet benefit programs.
Disabled American Veterans has a link to let you send a response on this: Here. It appears that the budget passed this morning, but I couldn’t tell if these changes made it in or not.