The Biden-Harris administration has released the president’s budget for fiscal year 2024. This budget proposes critical resources to help VA serve all veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors, as well as they have served their country.
This is the largest budget proposal in U.S. history for veterans, their families, caregivers and survivors. The total FY 2024 request for VA is $325.1 billion, a $16.6 billion (+5.4%) increase above the FY 2023 budget enacted level. This includes a discretionary budget request of $142.8 billion, a $3 billion (+2.1%) increase over FY 2023. The 2024 mandatory funding request is $182.3 billion, an increase of $13.6 billion (+8.1%) above 2023.
The budget proposal includes a significant investment in VA medical facilities. Veterans deserve world-class healthcare facilities, but the median VA hospital was built nearly 60 years ago – compared to just 13 years ago in the private sector. The budget makes a historic investment of $4.1 billion (discretionary and mandatory) for construction to begin restoring VA’s aging infrastructure and providing veterans with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities, as well as a $5 billion investment in medical care funding (discretionary) for non-recurring maintenance to improve medical facility infrastructure.
Learn more at va.gov.
