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February 18, 2026
Trump Administration Rule to Slash Disability Ratings for Thousands of Veterans Wednesday February 18 2026 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT today raised...at tanking earned disability compensation for these veterans appears ripped straight out of Project 2025 The Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims recently ruled that a veteran s disability rating must be...This new rule reverses the previous standard established by the Ingram v Collins court case issued in 2025 which required VA to discount the impact of medication when evaluating the severity of claims disability...
December 19, 2025
hospitals VA needs to be expanding its capacity and staffing levels not reducing t Friday December 19 2025 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT today led...including for doctors nurses and support staff We write to express our concern following the December 13 2025 Washington Post article VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs which...Secretary Collins Compounded by the exodus of more than 40 000 Department employees in fiscal year FY 2025 any unjustified cuts to existing vacancies would further disrupt a Department of Veterans Affairs...
April 1, 2025
Committee VA Appropriations Request Cost Estimate for VA Electronic Health Record Tuesday April 1 2025 WASHINGTON U S Senator Jerry Moran R Kan chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs led...Appropriations Committees in requesting the Department of Veterans Affairs VA submit an updated schedule and cost estimate to Congress for the Electronic Health Record Modernization EHRM program Sen Moran...Schultz D Fla VA recently announced an accelerated deployment schedule of the EHRM program that includes nine additional VA medical centers in 2026 as part of its effort to restart the stalled modernization...
January 22, 2026
detailing the harm inflicted on VA and veterans by the Administration s policies Thursday January 22 2026 WASHINGTON DC Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT today released...employees in fiscal year 2025 88 percent of those who left the Department were health care staff including doctors nurses mental health clinicians and other frontline employees Fiscal year 2025 also marks the first...care staffing shortage crisis The Department lost 1 000 physicians 1 500 schedulers and 3 000 registered nurses in fiscal year 2025 positions already hard to recruit before the second Trump Administration...
May 20, 2026
jobs amid historic staffing losses You don t think they ve lost people they need Wednesday May 20 2026 WASHINGTON D C At a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing today Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal...critical health care positions following a historic loss of more than 40 000 employees in fiscal year 2025 You have cut about 1 000 positions of physicians You ve cut nurse positions You ve cut all kinds of...those facilities and the staff the skilled and dedicated men and women who serve as nurses doctors schedulers psychiatrists custodians the entire team threatens the quality of care Veterans typically prefer...
February 19, 2026
Trump Administration Rule to Slash Disability Ratings for Thousands of Veterans Thursday February 19 2026 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT today released...This new rule reverses the previous standard established by the Ingram v Collins court case issued in 2025 which required VA to discount the impact of medication when evaluating the severity of claims disability...to discount the impact of medications when adjudicating claims for disabilities for which the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities does not explicitly mention medications This applies to veterans who take...
October 5, 2026
Member Minority News Blumenthal Statement on Release of Annual Veteran Suicide Report Monday October 5 2026 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT today issued...thousands of mental health care clinical positions instead of bolstering them From January 2025 to June 2026 VA cut 600 psychologist and 1 600 social worker positions barring medical centers from being...wait times Blumenthal has been a stanch fighter to improve and expand veterans mental health care In 2025 he introduced the BRAVE Act comprehensive legislation to strengthen VA s mental health workforce infrastructure...
November 13, 2025
Secretary Collins on unacceptable wait times for mental health care appointments Thursday November 13 2025 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT is demanding...Clinic average wait time greater than 100 days for a new patient mental health appointment since May 2025 Willimantic VA Clinic average wait times over 100 days for a new patient mental health appointment...Veterans Affairs Committee Minority staff have been tracking patient wait times once a week since January 2025 from VA s Access to Care website I am particularly alarmed by the following findings based on VA s...
March 14, 2025
Chairman Majority News Chairman Moran Statement on Passing a Continuing Resolution Friday March 14 2025 WASHINGTON U S Senator Jerry Moran Kan chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs today...shortfall and fund VA through the regular appropriations process in fiscal year 2026 https www veterans senate gov 2025 3 chairman moran statement on passing a continuing resolution Sign up for Email updates...
April 8, 2026
for sitting on doctor pay authority while overseeing historic losses of physicians Wednesday April 8 2026 WASHINGTON D C Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal D CT and House...salary cap beginning as soon as July 1 2025 the lawmakers wrote in a letter to VA Secretary Collins During a hearing before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee in May 2025 and again during a hearing before...before the House Veterans Affairs Committee in February 2026 you requested Congress provide the Department with the flexibility to pay doctors above this 400 000 salary cap in order to better recruit and retain...
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