Well, the bill should pass - but saying that failure to pass it costs people with cancer their lives is such an exaggeration as to be false.
It would pass in a heartbeat if it was for illegals.
Toxic exposure to government ...
Where are my reparations?
The veterans should identify as Ukrainians. The bill would pass easily.
No one was kicked to the curb. From what I read there is an accounting problem in the bill and those that voted no want it fixed before voting yes on it.
This is just months before an election so the Democrats are going to introduce massive spending bills labeled Veterans, Children, Working Families, and such and stuff it with a lot of pork. Then when the Republicans say wait a minute the Dem supporters write articles like this
It passed once, but had to be presented again because it contained some kind of error. One has to wonder what was put in there along with fixing the error? If that is the case, the Republicans need to speak up. Or have they spoken up, and the press has suppressed it? More to this than meets the eye, I’m thinking.
OK....
Time to light the fuse..
Name one veterans bill... ONE..
That was proposed and passed by republicans
Does it cover sex change surgery for vets?
Senate GOPers are saying it would have had enogh Senate GOP support if not for some poison pills the Dims had in the bill, and it was because of those things, not the funding for the Vets, that the bill did not pass - yet.
But the idiot comedian no nothing celebrities, working for the Dims, and with the media wind in their favor, will and are framing the issue as one of “heartless” Republicans that talk the talk but don’t walk the walk when it comes to our vets.
Senate GOPers need to get out in the media more and forcefully explain what really happened.
Maybe there is something wrong/bad in it and someone is doing his job voting against???
Or he needs more pork.
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who voted against the bill, said it includes a "budget gimmick that would allow $400 billion of current law spending to be moved from the discretionary to the mandatory spending category."
"By failing to remove this gimmick, Congress would effectively be using an important veterans care bill to hide a massive, unrelated spending binge," he said in a statement.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday called on Schumer to consider Toomey's amendment to the bill.
"As written, the legislation would not just help America's veterans as designed. It could also allow Democrats to effectively spend the same money twice and enable hundreds of billions in new, unrelated spending on the discretionary side of the federal budget," McConnell, who voted against the measure, said.