{"id":2314,"date":"2024-11-12T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/senate-clears-3b-veterans-funding-patch-amid-larger-shortfall\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:20:16","slug":"senate-clears-3b-veterans-funding-patch-amid-larger-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-clears-3b-veterans-funding-patch-amid-larger-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate clears $3B veterans funding patch amid larger shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed a nearly $2.9 billion emergency funding bill by voice vote on Thursday to keep veterans benefits flowing over the next few weeks, as the Department of Veterans Affairs warns of a far greater funding hole. With President Joe Biden&rsquo;s likely signature, the measure is expected to head off payment delays for benefits veterans are expecting by the first of the month&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/09\/19\/congress\/va-patch-sent-to-biden-00180022\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed a nearly $2.9 billion emergency funding bill by voice vote on Thursday to keep veterans benefits flowing over the next few weeks, as the Department of Veterans Affairs warns of a far greater funding hole. With President Joe Biden&rsquo;s likely signature, the measure is expected to head off payment delays for benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","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=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}