“The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee warned Wednesday that sequestration could adversely affect programs for veterans, despite an exemption in the law for the Department of Veterans Affairs," The Washington Post reported. "The VA itself is protected from sequestration, but other programs that help veterans could be affected,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told reporters for the Post and other papers. “Sanders mentioned as examples a Department of Labor program to provide job training to veterans and Housing and Urban Development vouchers that are used to house homeless veterans. Sanders also repeated an earlier warning that efforts to solve the budget deficit crisis by changing the way annual cost-of-living adjustments are calculated would cut disability benefits for disabled veterans," according to the Post.