SF-0001
The two 2024 VA funding shortfall episodes were structurally different events.
VBA was a financial-visibility and communication failure; VHA was a forecasting failure under a statutory cap. A single shortfall narrative is unsupported.
Audit 002 · Volume II
Veterans Affairs
For every dollar Congress appropriates to VA: where does it go, who handles it, what does it buy, and what does the veteran receive?
Version 1.0 · 2026-07-04 · D-0043
READY WITH EXPLICIT LIMITATIONS
Volume II publishes a validated evidence core, not a completed audit of all 20 chartered sections. Its value is traceability: findings move from evidence to claims, never the other way around.
Trace-first navigation
The required drill path is claim → supported finding → evidence → source → archive snapshot. This public render gives readers the audit landing, findings, claims, source gate, evidence map, data catalog, decision log, downloads, and explicit limitations while the full graph render is staged.
Supported findings
SF-0002
FY2026’s record VA budget is a mandatory-side event.
The growth decomposes primarily through mandatory appropriations and Toxic Exposures Fund effects, not simple discretionary expansion.
SF-0003
VHA staffing adequacy is measured by an instrument the agency publicly rejects.
This is a measurement-integrity finding, not a conclusion about true staffing levels.
SF-0004
VHA-based suicide prevention is structurally bounded by reach.
VA’s own reporting shows many veteran suicide decedents had no VHA health care in the prior year, limiting spending-to-outcome attribution.
SF-0005
EHR modernization remains a dated, currency-sensitive finding.
GAO recommendation status, cost-estimate gaps, and schedule claims require ongoing update checks.
SF-0006
Community care’s oversight record shows growth beside measurement weakness.
GAO recommendation status, appointment-timeliness standards, and network-adequacy methodology remain central.
SF-0007
FY2025 has a clean opinion and named weaknesses.
The audit records an unmodified opinion alongside material weaknesses and significant deficiencies.