Obama’s VA Spent $3.3 Billion on the Agency’s Buildings as Vets Died Awaiting Care

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Free Beacon:

The Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama has spent billions making improvements at VA centers across the country as veterans have waited months for care, in some cases dying before receiving treatment.

 

The VA’s budget has increased every year under the Obama administration. In its budget fact sheet for FY 2015, the administration pointed out that “total VA funding has grown in 2015 by nearly 68 percent from 2009.”

 

Records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon suggest that the VA has not neglected its facilities.

 

A review of records available the official government spending website shows the VA spending $3.3 billion on facility upgrades and expansions between 2010 through 2015, the budgets for which the administration is responsible.

 

The nearly 12,000 contracts filed under the “construction/hospitals & infirmaries” code shows that the VA found funds for numerous projects, from building new facilities and parking lots to installing and upgrading light fixtures.