President Biden signaled today that he prioritizes working families, veterans and America’s most vulnerable.

Washington, D.C. – House Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) released the following statement on President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 discretionary funding request:

“President Biden signaled today that he prioritizes working families, veterans and America’s most vulnerable. The fiscal year 2022 discretionary funding proposal properly focuses on helping struggling schools, providing affordable childcare and making robust public health investments, including an unprecedented push for more advanced research on cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other devastating diseases.

I am pleased that it seriously confronts climate change, and prioritizes neglected problems like gun safety, civil rights and gender-based violence. Many priorities highlight my own as chair of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, namely his calls for increases in VA medical care funding, boosts in suicide prevention, and measures to aggressively address racial, gender and other historic disparities in health and environmental outcomes.  This blueprint reflects our needs and values, and I’m eager to work with the new Administration to enact our shared goal of focusing government on benefiting America’s well-being, and not just its most well-off.”