claim: "congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years."
author: katrina vanden heuvel
evidence_1: sep 26, 2017 ... despite the common belief to the contrary, veteran-specific benefits and ... the  trump budget would cut funding for these services by 43 percent from ... this  proposal is estimated to cost 579,000 veterans their medicaid coverage by 2027.  ... its cuts in the final years of the budget window—slashing projected ...
evidence_2: feb 12, 2018 ... steep cuts across departments went toward funding a defense ... unlikely to  become reality: congress just increased spending limits last week, ... veterans  affairs ... or 15 percent, while also slashing by $17 billion the funds available to  ..... over the last year, labor secretary alexander acosta has pushed to ...
evidence_3: may 18, 2014 ... vanden heuvel on face the nation: 'congress has cut funding, has slashed  funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years'.
evidence_4: feb 12, 2018 ... the budget broadly resembles the budget trump released last year, and both  closely ... and boosts funding for border security, veterans, and defense, he cuts  just about ... the tax bill passed in 2017 permanent, and slashing food stamps  dramatically. ... this is projected to save $203 billion over 10 years.
evidence_5: jun 8, 2018 ... this week, trump warned, in effect, that he might stack a ... veterans face two  separate challenges to the va that have come to a boil ... the other concerns  transferring funding of veterans' healthcare from va facilities to private entities. ...  says final decisions on who will be on the panel will remain with him.