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Bad Math? Full cost per active-duty troop $86,000 above what's budgeted, CBO warns

That's a cost that will ultimately be paid by taxpayers through VA's budget decades from now, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate of future veterans' benefits that aren't captured in the military's personnel-cost accounting.

Republican Ledger staff · 8:00 PM ET

Bad Math? Full cost per active-duty troop $86,000 above what's budgeted, CBO warns
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That's a cost that will ultimately be paid by taxpayers through VA's budget decades from now, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate of future veterans' benefits that aren't captured in the military's personnel-cost accounting.

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