VA budget plan includes new office focused on preventing harassment, promoting diversity
Leo Shane III
May 28
Veterans Affairs officials will create a new office focused on diversity and harassment prevention under the White House’s fiscal 2022 budget plan unveiled Friday, which also includes significant funding boosts for improving mental health care and ending homelessness.
The total budget request of nearly $270 billion would be an increase of more than 10 percent over current year spending levels and an 9 percent increase in discretionary funding ($117.2 billion) for the department.
It represents another significant boost for a department which has seen steady budget growth over the last two decades. In fiscal 2001, the VA budget totaled about $45 billion. By fiscal 2011, it was about $125 billion, almost triple that total. Ten years later, in 2021, the department’s budget was nearly double that again, at $245 billion.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2021/05/28/va-budget-plan-includes-new-office-focused-on-preventing-harassment-promoting-diversity/
