This is the government strategy whenever they want to destroy something - do away with the needed resources to make something work right and then later turn around and blame the area or the institution. This is common in urban redevelopment ploys. Instead of maintaining and keeping an area fixed up by allocating resources, they ignore the area, let it run down and then blame the area for urban blight and come in a tear it down and put up whatever the developers want. VA and everything else can and will be the targets of this. Start cutting the needed funds to have a well run organization and a few years down blame the entity for its failures and start the cut backs. It is amazing how short the memory is of the U.S. people. Go out to middle America and look at some of the towns and communities which have been economically devastated over the years. People are beginning to forget what prosperity was like. Where we once had a thriving main street, we now how a monolithic Walmart or people order from Amazon.