Veterans Affairs
14 laws passed since January 3, 2025 name this agency.
Dollars
Confirmed from the official recordAs of: fiscal year 2026, reporting period 11 of 12, through August 31, 2026.
Obligations are money the agency commits to pay. Budgetary resources are the Treasury's figure for the money available to the agency in the year, new and carried over from earlier years.
The Treasury's record names this agency Department of Veterans Affairs.
Laws that name it
Keeps the federal government funded at about last year's levels through December 11, 2026.
Authorizes a major VA medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri.
Changes when the VA must rewrite a disabled veteran's job training plan.
Requires the VA and Congress's auditor to report on the causes of VA budget shortfalls.
Speeds up repayment to veterans whose benefits were misused by the person appointed to manage their money.
Stops GI Bill money from going to public college programs that charge reservists using the benefit more than in-state tuition.
Requires the VA to review regularly whether the automatic life insurance amount for service members is high enough.
Raises the special pension paid to Medal of Honor recipients.
Raises disability payments to veterans and payments to survivors by the same cost-of-living percentage as Social Security.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
Requires the VA to brief Congress regularly on its budget so that shortfalls surface early.
Orders a National Academies study of cancer rates and deaths among military aircrew.
Lets the VA step in when a veteran falls behind on a VA-backed home loan, by covering missed payments and adding them to the end of the loan.
The list comes from published summaries of the laws.