To fully fund programs for veterans, service members, and their families, Congress must:

• Reform the dysfunctional federal budget process.
• Authorize VA to receive reimbursements from TRICARE and Medicare.
• Never reduce one veteran’s benefits to pay for another.

To ensure veterans succeed after leaving military service, Congress, VA, DOD, and DOL must:

• Improve education benefits through increased online student housing allowances, child care stipends, parity for Guard and Reserve members, and elimination of delimiting dates.
• Enhance outreach and counseling to veterans eligible for the Veteran Readiness and Employment program.
• Ensure parity of VA and DOD education programs with other federal programs.
• Expand small business, hiring preference, tax incentives, and entrepreneurship resources for veterans and military spouses.
• Increase funding for HUD-VASH vouchers, grant and per diem payments, and pilot programs to combat veteran homelessness.
• Conduct oversight of VA's Transition Assistance Program to ensure compliance with the law, and require the inclusion of accredited claims representatives.
• Eliminate red tape preventing effective use of education and employment benefits.
• Provide housing relief for surviving spouses. 

To ensure veterans and their survivors have timely access to earned benefits, Congress and VA must: 

• Crack down on unaccredited claims consultants known as Claim Sharks.
• Study all toxic and environmental exposures, and implement programs to ensure health care and benefits are provided to all exposed service members and veterans.
• Properly oversee and update the modernized appeals process and digital claims processing.
• Increase Dependency and Indemnity Compensation benefits for survivors.
• Improve the accuracy of disability compensation claims related to military sexual trauma.
• Increase burial allowances to account for inflation.
• Ensure that earned VA benefits are never offset by the use of other federal benefits. 

To ensure service members and veterans receive timely access to high-quality health care without increasing cost shares, Congress, VA, and DOD must:

• Eliminate service member and veteran suicide by addressing both clinical and non-clinical needs.
• Strengthen care and research for mental health and traumatic brain injuries.
• Improve oversight of Vet Centers to ensure adequate staffing, resources, and funding.
• Enhance programs and services for women and underserved veterans.
• Eliminate copayment requirements for preventive health care and medications.
• Research the efficacy of medical cannabis and other alternative therapies.
• Preserve the integrity of TRICARE.
• Properly implement VA and DOD health IT systems.
• Expand nursing home eligibility and long-term care options.
• Enhance services for veterans outside of the United States.

To maintain a quality, comprehensive benefits and retirement package that is the backbone for preserving the all-volunteer force, Congress and DOD must:

• End the military retirement pay and VA disability compensation offset.
• Protect and improve on-base quality of life and support programs.
• Eliminate sexual assault and harassment from the military.
• Increase military base pay comparability with private sector wages.
• Ensure that military housing is safe and free of toxic substances.
• Eliminate food insecurity in the military.
• Ensure equity of benefits for Reserve Component service members.

To fully support the all-volunteer force, protect our nation’s citizens, and defend American interests around the world, Congress and DOD must:

• Ensure DPAA is fully funded to perform its personnel recovery mission.
• Expand partnerships with host nations and private/public organizations to achieve the fullest possible accounting of U.S. military personnel missing from all wars.
• Deter threats to our national security by supporting our allies in Ukraine, Israel, Korea, and Taiwan.
• Ensure all service members who served in harm’s way, to include foreign nationals, receive the recognition, care, and benefits they have earned.
• Provide recognition and support for Afghan and Iraqi translators and allies.
• Award the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for operations in Eastern Europe.