No Wrong Door for Veterans Act

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Bill ID: 119/hr/1969
Last Updated: July 12, 2026

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Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]

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The bill

No Wrong Door for Veterans Act

HR. 1969, 119th Congress — read as touching Hospitals & Health Systems.

The sponsor

Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]

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The money

$166,100 raised

25 itemised contributions to this sponsor, pulled from FEC filings.

The alignment

85% match to Project 2025

This bill's text tracks the "Department of Transportation" section, p. 673-675 of the Mandate for Leadership.

Bill's Journey to Becoming a Law

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

May 21, 2025

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Bill Summary

Another masterpiece of legislative theater, brought to you by the same geniuses who think they can fool me with their cleverly crafted bill titles and patriotic platitudes. The "No Wrong Door for Veterans Act" - how quaint. How utterly, mind-numbingly predictable.

**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The main purpose of this bill is to reauthorize and expand the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program, because, you know, throwing more money at a problem always solves it. The objectives are to provide more funding for suicide prevention services, improve access to emergent care, and make sure that veterans don't fall through the cracks of our glorious bureaucracy.

**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill extends the grant program until 2026, increases funding by $52.5 million for fiscal year 2026, and makes some minor tweaks to the eligibility criteria for grant recipients. It also requires the use of a specific screening protocol (the Columbia Protocol) because, apparently, our lawmakers are now experts in medical diagnostics. Oh, and let's not forget the obligatory nod to "adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities" - because what every veteran really needs is a fancy new limb to play golf with.

**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The affected parties include veterans (duh), the Department of Veterans Affairs, mental health care providers, and grant recipients. But let's be real, the only stakeholders who truly matter are the lobbyists and special interest groups who will benefit from this bill's passage.

**Potential Impact & Implications:** The potential impact of this bill is to create a temporary illusion that our lawmakers actually care about veterans' mental health. In reality, it will likely lead to more bureaucratic red tape, increased funding for ineffective programs, and a further entrenchment of the status quo. The implications are clear: our politicians will continue to prioritize photo ops and soundbites over actual policy changes that might make a difference in people's lives.

In conclusion, this bill is a perfect example of legislative malpractice - a cynical attempt to paper over the real problems facing our veterans with empty rhetoric and token gestures. It's a disease, really - a disease of cowardice, incompetence, and greed. And I'm not buying it. Neither should you.

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💰 Campaign Finance Network

Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]

Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle

Total Contributions
$166,100
24 donors
PACs
$500
Organizations
$3,900
Committees
$0
Individuals
$160,200
1
POLITICAL COMMITTEE, NWF ACTION FUND
1 transaction
$500
1
US MARSHALS SERVICES
1 transaction
$2,900
2
HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP
1 transaction
$1,000

No committee contributions found

1
SMITH, DYAN
2 transactions
$16,600
2
HOGAN, PATRICK F
1 transaction
$13,200
3
HOLDEN, RONALD
1 transaction
$13,200
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VANDEWALLE, LOLA L
1 transaction
$13,200
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GLEESON, JOHN W
1 transaction
$11,600
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RICHARDS, DANIEL
1 transaction
$6,600
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WILLOX, NORMAN
1 transaction
$6,600
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PFAUTCH, ROY
1 transaction
$6,600
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BRADLEY, JACQUELINE
1 transaction
$6,600
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BROIN, JEFF MR.
1 transaction
$6,600
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JAY, JEFFREY
1 transaction
$6,600
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RICKETTS, J. JOE
1 transaction
$6,600
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MCCOY, JUDITH
1 transaction
$6,600
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SINGER, PAUL
1 transaction
$6,600
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SABIN, ANDREW
1 transaction
$6,600
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GILLIAM, RICHARD
1 transaction
$6,600
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BELTRAME, MARC
1 transaction
$6,600
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WOLL, MARGO
1 transaction
$6,600
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SCHWARZMAN, CHRISTINE
1 transaction
$6,600

Cosponsors & Their Campaign Finance

This bill has 1 cosponsors. Below are their top campaign contributors.

Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]

ID: B001301

Top Contributors

10

1
MATCH-E-BE-NASH-SHE-WISH BAND OF POTTAWATOMI INDIANS
OrganizationSHELBYVILLE, MI
$3,300
Dec 8, 2023
2
SAGINAW CHIPPEWA INDIAN TRIBE
OrganizationMT. PLEASANT, MI
$3,300
Dec 8, 2023
3
POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS
OrganizationATMORE, AL
$3,300
Jun 17, 2024
4
POARCH BAND OF CREEK INDIANS
OrganizationATMORE, AL
$3,300
Jun 30, 2023
5
PECHANGA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANS
OrganizationTEMECULA, CA
$3,000
Dec 31, 2023
6
SAULT STE MARIE TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
OrganizationSAULT SAINTE MARIE, MI
$2,900
Dec 7, 2023
7
DRESNER, LINDA
DRESNER DESIGNS • CEO
IndividualBIRMINGHAM, MI
$6,600
Dec 6, 2023
8
LEVY, EDWARD
WEST BAY BEACH RESORT • PRESIDENT
IndividualBIRMINGHAM, MI
$6,600
Dec 6, 2023
9
TAYLOR, MARGARETTA J. MS
NONE • RETIRED
IndividualNEW YORK, NY
$6,600
Mar 5, 2024
10
GREENBLATT, SCOTT
VETERANS GUARDIAN VA CLAIM CONSULTING • CEO
IndividualPINEHURST, NC
$6,600
Jun 29, 2023

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Industry Impact

Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 1 helped.

  • Section 2(b) mentions emergent suicide care and notification of the Secretary, which may lead to increased collaboration with hospitals and health systems, potentially benefiting them.

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Project 2025 Policy Matches

This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.AI-enhanced analysis provides detailed alignment ratings.

Department of Transportation

Strong
Vector: 64%
Pages: 673-675AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill directly supports the VA's mission of providing exceptional, timely, and veteran-centric health care by enhancing suicide prevention services, ensuring rapid emergent care, increasing funding, and improving coordination—core goals outlined in the Project 2025 VA policy overview."

Key themes:veteran-centric health caretimely access to servicessuicide preventionfunding for VA programsprovider coordination

— 641 — 20 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Brooks D. Tucker MISSION STATEMENT The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the primary provider of health care, benefits, and memorial affairs for America’s veterans and their families. The VA has the noble responsibility to render exceptional and timely support and services with respect, compassion, and competence. The veteran is at the forefront of every VA process and interaction. The VA must continually strive to be recognized as a “best in class,” “Veteran-centric”1 system with an organizational ethos inspired by and accountable to the needs and problems of veterans, not subservient to the parochial preferences of a bureaucracy. OVERVIEW At the end of the Obama Administration, the VA was held in low esteem both by the veterans it served and by the employees who served these former warriors. Eroding morale caused by the downstream effects of a health care access crisis in 2014 led to the resignation of Secretary Eric Shinseki and extensive oversight investigations by Congress from 2015–2016. By 2020, however, the VA had become one of the most respected U.S. agencies. This significant progress was due in part to the leadership of Secretary Robert Wilkie (2018–2021) and his team of political appointees and career senior executives, many of them veterans, who led the effort to ensure that the VA became “Veteran-centric” in its governance decisions and fostered a more positive work environment. This mindset translated into a department that was better attuned to employees’ and veterans’ needs and experiences in the daily operations of health care, benefits, — 642 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise and memorial affairs. During that period, the VA received the largest number of watershed congressional authorizations to reform its health care and benefits that it had received since the post–Vietnam War years along with historic increases in annual appropriations, which have tripled since the last full year of the George W. Bush Administration. The current VA leadership team of Biden appointees has adopted some of their predecessors’ governance processes. However, they have not sustained the previous Administration’s commitment to a genuine “Veteran-centric” philosophy, most nota- bly with respect to the delivery of health care, and harbor a bias toward expanding the unionized federal employee workforce that has not always been aligned with a focus on “Veteran-centric” care. There also is growing concern in Congress and the veteran community that the VA is poorly managing and in some cases disregarding provisions of the VA MISSION [Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Out- side Networks] Act of 20182 that codify broad access for veterans to non-VA health care providers. Efforts to expand disability benefits to large populations without adequate planning have caused an erosion of veterans’ trust in the VA enterprise. Additionally, the current VA leadership is focusing very publicly on “social equity and inclusion” within departmental policy discussions toward ends that will affect only a small minority of the veterans who use the VA. For the first time, the VA is allowing access to abortion services, a medical procedure unrelated to military service that the VA lacks the legal authority and clinical proficiency to perform. In addition to continuing the grotesque culture of violence against the child in the womb, these sociopolitical initiatives and ideological indoctrinations distract from the department’s core missions. DEPARTMENTAL HISTORY Following the Civil War, state veterans homes were established to provide med- ical and hospital treatment for all injuries and diseases. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, “Congress established a new system of Veterans benefits, including programs for disability compensation, insurance for service personnel and Veterans, and vocational rehabilitation for the disabled”3 that was overseen by three different federal programs: the Veterans Bureau, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Pensions, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In 1921, Congress combined those programs into the Veterans Bureau. Following World War II, a national VA hospital system, much of which remains operational today, was established to care for millions of returning veterans. Following the Vietnam War, the VA’s federally owned and operated hospital network expanded again to meet the needs of the volunteer and draftee population. In the past two decades, the VA has purposely transitioned to leasing medical prop- erties rather than building expensive new facilities that can take years to complete and often experience budget overruns. As the nature of health care has evolved

Department of Veterans Affairs

Moderate
Vector: 64%
Pages: 676-678AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill seeks to strengthen VA mental health and suicide prevention services, which aligns with Project 2025's broader goal of improving VA health care delivery and addressing systemic challenges. However, it does not address the specific reform directives (e.g., rescinding abortion/gender reassignment policies) or demographic focus emphasized in the Project 2025 text."

Key themes:veterans health caresuicide preventionmental health servicesVA fundingcommunity care

— 643 — Department of Veterans Affairs with a growth in same-day surgical procedures and outpatient care, so has the VA, and in 2018 Congress added access to private-sector urgent care outlets as one of the VA’s health care benefits. Today, the VA operates 172 inpatient VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), which are an average of 60 years old, and 1,113 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), which are newer facilities designed to meet the needs of veterans closer to home. The VA also manages a Community Care Network (CCN) through contracts with Optum and TriWest, third-party health care administrators responsible for build- ing and maintaining a robust population of community providers to meet the needs of veterans referred for care outside of the VA system. Currently, approximately 6.4 million veterans out of 18 million nationally (and out of the 9.1 million who are enrolled) use the VA for health care; the remainder use employer-sponsored plans, Tricare, Medicare, and Medicaid. The disability benefits system evolved significantly in the years between the Cold War era and the global war on terrorism, a period when the VA enrolled large numbers of veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam who were seeking disability benefits and health care. Disability compensation is the largest VA benefit, but there also are dozens of others, the next largest of which are the GI Bill and the Home Loan Guaranty. These benefits are administered through 56 Regional Benefits Offices (RBOs) and hundreds of satellite sites around the country. The Agent Orange Act of 19914 significantly expanded the scope of disability ben- efits for those who had deployed to Vietnam, and the cost of those benefits began to increase dramatically as the Vietnam generation of veterans aged and began to expe- rience adverse health conditions, some of which were presumed to have been caused by defoliant chemicals used in Southeast Asia. In 2016 and 2017, a burdensome backlog of appeals of denied disability claims from multiple wartime generations—a backlog numbering in the hundreds of thousands—led to a joint effort by the VA, Vet- eran Service Organizations (VSOs), and Congress to pass legislation that streamlined appeal processes. Implemented in 2017, this historic “good governance” success has helped the VA to reduce the number of these appeals dramatically. The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 20225 addressed adverse health outcomes presumed to be the result of veterans’ exposure to airborne toxins during the global war on terrorism and further expanded disability benefits to the most recent gen- eration of veterans. These ambitious authorities, like the 1991 authorities, have the potential to overwhelm the VA’s ability to process new disability claims and adjudicate appeals. Currently, the VA is seeking to hire large numbers of personnel to process these claims while exploring the use of an automated process to accel- erate claims reviews and decisions. The ever-present lag in the hiring and training of new employees could result in major problems with the timely adjudication of benefits well into the next Administration in 2025. — 644 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise In sum, the VA for the foreseeable future will experience significant fiscal, human capital, and infrastructure crosswinds and risks. Budgets are at historic highs, and with a workforce now above 400,000, the VA is contending with a lack of new veteran enrollees to offset the declining population of older veterans. Recruitment of medical and benefits personnel has become more challenging. Veterans are migrating from the northern states to the southern and western states for retirement and employment. Meanwhile, VA information technol- ogy (IT) is struggling to keep pace with the evolution of patient care and record keeping. Consequently, VA leaders in the next Administration must be wise and courageous political strategists, experienced managers to run day-to-day oper- ations more effectively, innovators to address the changing veteran landscape, and agile “fixers” to mitigate and repair systemic problems created or ignored by the present leadership team. VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (VHA) Needed Reforms l Rescind all departmental clinical policy directives that are contrary to principles of conservative governance starting with abortion services and gender reassignment surgery. Neither aligns with service-connected conditions that would warrant VA’s providing this type of clinical care, and both follow the Left’s pernicious trend of abusing the role of government to further its own agenda. l Focus on the effects of shifting veteran demographics. At least during the next decade, the VA will experience a significant generational shift in its overall patient population. Of the approximately 18 million veterans alive today, roughly 9.1 million are enrolled for VA health care, and 6.4 million of these enrollees use VA health care consistently. These 6.4 million veterans are split almost evenly between those who are over age 65 and those who are under age 65, but the share of VA’s health care dollars is spent predominantly in the over-65 cohort. That share increases significantly as veterans live longer and use the VHA system at a higher rate. VHA enrollments of new users are increasingly at risk of being exceeded by the deaths of current enrollees, primarily because significant numbers of the Vietnam generation are reaching their life expectancy. The generational transition from Vietnam-era veterans to post-9/11 veterans will take several years to complete. The ongoing demographic transition is a catalyst for needed assessments of how the VA can improve the delivery of care to a numerically declining and differently dispersed national population

Department of Veterans Affairs

Moderate
Vector: 62%
Pages: 676-678AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"Both the bill and the Project 2025 excerpt aim to enhance veterans' access to VA health care services, though the bill focuses specifically on suicide prevention grant programming while the Project 2025 text addresses broader VA infrastructure, community care, and benefits processing."

Key themes:veterans health careaccess to carecommunity-based servicesmental health/suicide preventionVA program funding

— 643 — Department of Veterans Affairs with a growth in same-day surgical procedures and outpatient care, so has the VA, and in 2018 Congress added access to private-sector urgent care outlets as one of the VA’s health care benefits. Today, the VA operates 172 inpatient VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), which are an average of 60 years old, and 1,113 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), which are newer facilities designed to meet the needs of veterans closer to home. The VA also manages a Community Care Network (CCN) through contracts with Optum and TriWest, third-party health care administrators responsible for build- ing and maintaining a robust population of community providers to meet the needs of veterans referred for care outside of the VA system. Currently, approximately 6.4 million veterans out of 18 million nationally (and out of the 9.1 million who are enrolled) use the VA for health care; the remainder use employer-sponsored plans, Tricare, Medicare, and Medicaid. The disability benefits system evolved significantly in the years between the Cold War era and the global war on terrorism, a period when the VA enrolled large numbers of veterans from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam who were seeking disability benefits and health care. Disability compensation is the largest VA benefit, but there also are dozens of others, the next largest of which are the GI Bill and the Home Loan Guaranty. These benefits are administered through 56 Regional Benefits Offices (RBOs) and hundreds of satellite sites around the country. The Agent Orange Act of 19914 significantly expanded the scope of disability ben- efits for those who had deployed to Vietnam, and the cost of those benefits began to increase dramatically as the Vietnam generation of veterans aged and began to expe- rience adverse health conditions, some of which were presumed to have been caused by defoliant chemicals used in Southeast Asia. In 2016 and 2017, a burdensome backlog of appeals of denied disability claims from multiple wartime generations—a backlog numbering in the hundreds of thousands—led to a joint effort by the VA, Vet- eran Service Organizations (VSOs), and Congress to pass legislation that streamlined appeal processes. Implemented in 2017, this historic “good governance” success has helped the VA to reduce the number of these appeals dramatically. The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 20225 addressed adverse health outcomes presumed to be the result of veterans’ exposure to airborne toxins during the global war on terrorism and further expanded disability benefits to the most recent gen- eration of veterans. These ambitious authorities, like the 1991 authorities, have the potential to overwhelm the VA’s ability to process new disability claims and adjudicate appeals. Currently, the VA is seeking to hire large numbers of personnel to process these claims while exploring the use of an automated process to accel- erate claims reviews and decisions. The ever-present lag in the hiring and training of new employees could result in major problems with the timely adjudication of benefits well into the next Administration in 2025.

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