more $ for Veterans Affairs?

Chris Adams of the McClatchy Newspapers reports:

Congressional appropriators are pushing a huge increase in spending for the Department of Veterans Affairs, despite some resistance from the White House.

The congressional bills call for increases of approximately $43 billion for health care. The White House wants to see the increases limited to $39 billion, calling the larger figure "an excessive level of spending."

Well, since we've already spent more than $436 billion on the Iraq war, I personally don't think that spending approximately 1.15% of that total to care for disabled veterans constitutes "an excessive level of spending."

You can read the rest of Adams's article here.