The Department of Veterans Affairs under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has created a crisis of agency management that lawmakers cannot allow to be “swept under the rug,” said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

The department in mid-July told lawmakers it expects to be nearly $15 billion short of what it needs to pay for benefits and healthcare this year and next, partly because more veterans are using services than expected.

“Is this VA budget calamity due to gross mismanagement or incompetence or both?” Tuberville wrote in an opinion piece for the Independent Journal Review on Friday. “Before Congress passes another massive emergency supplemental to save the VA from itself, we need to get to the bottom of this failure.”

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