S.Amdt. 1315

SA 1315. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 14,
establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government
for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels
for fiscal years 2026 through 2034; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PREVENTING VETERANS FROM LOSING ACCESS TO OR
EXPERIENCING DELAYS IN HEALTH CARE AT THE
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS DUE TO RECKLESS
POLICIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE FAILURES UNDER THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
strengthening veterans' access to care and preventing
unnecessary delays in care provided by the Department of
Veterans Affairs, which may include legislation that would
ensure that staff and programs related to or administered by
the Veterans Health Administration are not reduced below the
fiscal year 2024 levels due to hiring freezes, deferred
resignations, buyout offers, reductions in force, mass
terminations, layoffs, funding freezes, or reductions in
services or outreach due to cancellations of contracts, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over the period of the total of fiscal years 2025 through
2034.
______