Live here on cspan three in the Senate Veteran Affairs Meeting testifying on the president s 2024 request for his department. May join this meeting live in progress. I visited there, as you have, as your staff had, you do the right thing. We want to keep working with you. I want to talk about the pact act a little bit. Do you have numbers, up to date numbers of how many veterans are taking advantage of it . I like to say when i do these round tables that this is government and right. This bill passed if, i remember, of august 2022. By january you had it up and running. Hundreds of thousands of veterans were getting care. That is exactly the way governments should run. All of us are proud to be part of that. Do you have an eye to the number of how many people have been served . Yes. Thank you very much. As of may 6th, 251,584 total veterans or survivors have had completed pact act relating claims. We are granting at about 80 . That is the beauty of the presumption we are able to grant a
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
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