the last five years. claim veterans among funding has been boosted to record levels. true, the v.a. s budget request for this year is $164 billion, way up from a few years back when it was $113 billion. what is missing? the white house facing overall budget issues may not yet be asking for enough to provide promise services to all the vets from iraq and afghanistan, according to some veterans advocates. as they say in the army, failing to plan is planning to fail. and it is clear the v.a. has failed to plan for the numbers of troops and vets that it was going to be services for years now. claim, the v.a. has slashed the back log of disability cases by half in the past year. we launched an all-out war on the disability claims back log. also true but complicated. claims rose in 2011 after a court decided 150,000 cases
army for specifics on this matter. 72 of the 187 american troops killed in afghanistan so far this year were victims of ied s. among the reasons the house over sight committee is likely to open an investigation in a matter of days. the obama administration may be backing off the president s promise services to troops that return home would not suffer from mandatory defense cuts. shannon bream is here with more on that. speaking before the veterans of foreign wars monday the president made his position clear, no see questions transportation to benefits or healthcare. your veterans benefits are exempt from sequestration. because events aproppations is the law of the land it s protected from the budget battles in washington.