POHANG, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 12: U.S. Marines from 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, Battalion landing team deployed from Okinawa, Japan participate in the U.S. and South Korean Marines joint landing operation at Pohang seashore on March , 12, 2016 in Pohang, South Korea. It has been reported by South Korean media that the scale of this annual joint exercise is one of the largest in the past. (Photo by Woohae Cho/Getty Images)MANCHESTER, NH - DECEMBER 19: Democratic president candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton debate at Saint Anselm College December 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. This is the third Democratic debate featuring Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)Airman 1st Class Sean Carnes, a 1st Combat Camera Squadron combat photojournalist, fires an M4 carbine rifle as part of tactics training in exercise Scorpion Lens 2016 at Fort Jackson, S.C., March 7, 2016. The exercise is twofold containing the Scorpion Lens portion, which is dedicated to advanced weapons and tactical training, and the flash bang portion, which practices photography and videography documentation standards in combat situations. The purpose of the training is to provide refresher training to combat camera personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)A Soldier with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division moves through an urban training facility March 10 at Fort Hood, Texas. The Soldiers used simulation rounds to enhance the realism of training. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team PAO, 1st Cavalry Division)The Louisiana National Guard's 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company, 205th Engineer Battalion launched a bridge erection boat (BEB) into the Tangipahoa River to go door-to-door along Watters Road just outside of Ponchatoula, La., to check on residents that could not get out of their homes, March 13, 2016. The water was too deep for high-water vehicles and the current of the river was too strong for regular boat motors to battle. (National Guard photo by Col. Rodney Painting)Carrying the flag of the Marine Raiders, U.S. Marines and family members begin a 770-mile Ruck March Friday, March 11, 2016, from Navarre, Fla., to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in memory of the seven Marines and four Louisiana National Guardsmen who died when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed March 10, 2015 near the Florida panhandle community. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT Seaman Conor Magill, a buoy deck crewmember aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker, cuts chain with a torch aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker while transiting the New York Harbor, March 8, 2016. The Katherine Walker’s primary mission is maintaining over 300 floating aids to navigation in and around New York harbor and its approaches, Long Island Sound, the Hudson and East Rivers, and other waters along the Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey coastlines. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Frank Iannazzo-Simmons)U.S. Army Maj. Michelle Grant, assigned to the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Benning, Ga., conducts speed-resistance training during the U.S. Army Trials part of the 2016 Warrior Games, at Stout track, Fort Bliss, Texas, March 4, 2016. The Warrior Games is an annual event allowing wounded, ill and injured Service members and veterans to compete in Paralympic sports including archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, track and field, swimming and wheelchair basketball. (U.S. Army photo by Marcy Sanchez)U.S. Army Cpl. Gregory McLellan and U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Clinton Smith, Joint Corporals Leadership Development Course students, plot grid points during the land navigation portion of Camp Lemonnier's Joint Corporal’s Leadership Development Course at Arta, Djibouti, March 3, 2016. During the evaluation Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines had to find eight different points and navigate to those points in a timed event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan DeCook)Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center, accompanied by Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker, Commanding General , U.S Army Military District of Washington, right, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, March 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Four F-16 Fighting Falcon Thunderbirds, from the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, fly in a diamond formation during the Thunder and Lightning over Arizona Open House at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 12, 2016. The free event featured aerial demonstrations from various teams and numerous static displays. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Chris Massey/Released)AVONDALE, AZ - MARCH 13: Military members hold the American flag during the national anthem prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 13, 2016 in Avondale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
The Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase program aimed to help financially strapped veterans get lower interest rates and avoid eviction from their homes.
Officials are examining facilities across the military medical system, which could mean closing some facilities or downgrading some hospitals to clinics.
Plans to cut more than 80,000 staffers from VA offices would severely hurt benefits delivery, said Arizona Democrat Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Marine Corps vet.