{"id":2329,"date":"2024-11-12T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/house-passes-3b-veterans-funding-patch-as-republicans-scoff-at-massive-va-shortfall\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:20:44","slug":"house-passes-3b-veterans-funding-patch-as-republicans-scoff-at-massive-va-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-passes-3b-veterans-funding-patch-as-republicans-scoff-at-massive-va-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes $3B veterans funding patch as Republicans scoff at massive VA shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed an emergency spending bill Tuesday night to boost veterans funding by almost $2.9 billion amid Biden administration warnings that VA benefits are at risk this month. While that multi-billion-dollar infusion has bipartisan support, a follow-on tranche could be harder fought. The Department of Veterans Affairs expects a much larger shortfall over the next year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/03\/21\/congress\/house-passes-va-patch-00179713\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House passed an emergency spending bill Tuesday night to boost veterans funding by almost $2.9 billion amid Biden administration warnings that VA benefits are at risk this month. While that multi-billion-dollar infusion has bipartisan support, a follow-on tranche could be harder fought. The Department of Veterans Affairs expects a much larger shortfall over the [&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-2329","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\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}