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Advocates criticize VA response after LGBTQ harassment incidents
Portland VA Medical Center leaders have promised an investigation after several incidents at the facility.
Biden threatens VA budget bill veto over limits on abortion, LGBT care
The plan calls for roughly $320 billion in veterans program and benefits spending next fiscal year.
More defense policy fights ahead as Senate begins budget debates
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of July 17, 2023.
House Dems bail on defense bill as GOP votes to repeal abortion policy
House Republicans voted to add several conservative Freedom Caucus amendments on abortion and transgender troops to the previously bipartisan defense bill.
GOP bill bans military abortions, transgender care, diversity work
The $826.5 billion spending plan is likely to face strong resistance from the White House and Senate Democrats.
GOP budget bill would ban abortions, transgender services at VA
The $320 billion spending plan includes numerous provisions Democrats decried as political attacks on veterans.
Transgender vets call for more protections from Congress, VA
Advocates want VA to move ahead with plans to provide gender-affirming surgery to transgender veterans, a policy change first promised in summer 2021.
White House urges insurers to keep gender-affirming care in fed plans
Previewing OPM's health care priorities for FEHB carriers supporting the 2024 open season.
Biden introduces sweeping diversity initiative amid race-training controversy
The executive order signed by President Joe Biden instructs agencies to pursue far-reaching initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion within the federal workforce.
By Jessie Bur