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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Allison P. Erickson

Dallas, El Paso veterans’ facilities will get $442 million in upgrades

American Flags outside the Doris Miller Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Waco. President Joe Biden signed that will direct more than $442 million in upgrades to Veteran Affairs health care facilities in Dallas and El Paso.
American flags outside the Doris Miller Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Waco. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Monday that will direct more than $442 million in upgrades to Veteran Affairs health care facilities in Dallas and El Paso. (Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for Texas Tribune)

President Joe Biden signed on Monday a bipartisan bill — championed by U.S. Reps. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, and Jake Ellzey, R-Waxahachie — that will direct more than $442 million in upgrades to Veteran Affairs health care facilities in Dallas and El Paso.

Both Allred and Ellzey are members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. The improvements the bill will pay for include a 30-bed long-term care facility for spinal cord injuries in Dallas and an entirely new health care facility in El Paso.

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