{"id":22714,"date":"2026-05-14T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/va-secretary-to-testify-after-house-threatens-to-penalize-him\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:47:35","slug":"va-secretary-to-testify-after-house-threatens-to-penalize-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/va-secretary-to-testify-after-house-threatens-to-penalize-him\/","title":{"rendered":"VA secretary to testify after House threatens to penalize him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will testify before House appropriators next week after lawmakers voted to withhold funding for the agency if he didn\u2019t, according to two people familiar with the hearing that has yet to be officially announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were just being ornery,\u201d Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), who chairs the VA appropriations subcommittee, said of the Trump administration in an interview Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The House plans to vote Friday to pass the annual bill that funds Collins\u2019 department. Within that measure, lawmakers included a provision to withhold 25 percent of the department\u2019s operating budget until Collins testifies before both chambers.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary already appeared before Senate appropriators last month.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the VA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins will testify before House appropriators next week after lawmakers voted to withhold funding for the agency if he didn\u2019t, according to two people familiar with the hearing that has yet to be officially announced. \u201cThey were just being ornery,\u201d Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), who chairs the VA appropriations subcommittee, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}