President Joe Biden’s administration has scrapped its plan to send workers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help with the border crisis, a top official said on May 4.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the administration had decided against attempting to send VA staffers to the U.S.–Mexico border.
“We are not making that request of the Veterans Affairs department. And the Veterans Affairs department will not be allocating resources to the border,” Mayorkas told Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The VA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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