The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released their first package of fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills on Sunday including a bill that provides over $6 billion in IT funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), with a cut in the White House’s request for money to fund VA’s electronic health records program.
The 1,050-page appropriations package contains six spending bills necessary to keep a subset of government agencies funded before the current continuing resolution (CR) spending agreement expires on Friday and triggers a partial government shutdown. The bills cover spending for FY2024, which ends on Sept. 30.
The package’s Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Act provides the VA and related agencies $135.25 billion in non-defense discretionary funding, as well as $172.5 billion in mandatory funding…
Source: FY2024 VA Spending Bill Has $6B for IT, Less for EHRM Program. By Grace Dille, March 4, 2024. MeriTalk.
