Republicans are questioning how vital the situation actually was in September when the Senate passed an approximately $3 billion additional emergency funding bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs when lawmakers were warned that benefits to veterans could be delayed, the Washington Examiner reported Monday.

The VA admitted to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs last week that it did not use the supplemental funding for fiscal 2024.

The admission from the VA upset the chair of the committee, Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., who sent a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough along with House Appropriations Committee’s veterans panel Chair John Carter, a Texas Republican, expressing concerns and announcing they will be “launching a full investigation to get to the bottom of this.”

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