Project 2025 And Veterans Cuts. Explore the potential impacts of project 2025 on troops and veterans, including defense spending, benefits, and healthcare reforms. If confirmed, he will lead a sprawling agency with a $369 billion budget and nearly 400,000 employees who provide health care, disability compensation and other benefits to 18.

A growing chorus is calling for cuts to veteran affairs disability benefits as a way to save federal dollars — a move that ignores the very real costs of two decades of war, and could cause. The heritage foundations, has provided these candidates with a detailed plan, called project 2025, on how to privatize the va and dramatically cut federal employment.