By Ben Kesling and Michael M. Phillips

Two years after Congress turned him down the first time, President Barack Obama is seeking money for a jobs program that would put veterans to work in national parks and elsewhere.

The president’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 includes $1 billion for the Veterans Jobs Corps, an idea Mr. Obama first stumped for in his 2012 State of the Union speech and which Congress snuffed out later that year.