President Donald Trump on Friday signed a spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs that for the first time exceeds more than $200 billion.
Trump signed the VA budget for fiscal year 2019 during a ceremony at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System in Las Vegas, flanked by local VA leaders and veterans, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
After Trump signed the bill, he joked Wilkie is the one who “has got to make it work.”
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