Every four years, the Department of Veterans Affairs, just like all federal departments, has to review all its programs and services. It's called a strategic program review. The purpose of this exercise is to review all programs in order to determine which programs are the least in keeping with government priorities.
Government priorities can change and if the administrative apparatus isn't on top of these priorities, money may not go to the right place. Every federal department has to review its programs and identify the 5% of programs which are fully aligned with objectives or not as effective.
The Department of Veterans Affairs was subject to a strategic program review in 2008-2009, and the findings were published in the budget which was passed a couple of days ago.
In the case of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 5% of $3.4 billion actually totals far more than $24 million.