GOP Votes To Slash Veterans Benefits

The "cuts" aren't cuts they are reductions in the rate of growth.

There are no CUTS.

foreign virus labs
Co2 fraud
funding trans shows in South America

Nope, nothing Kevin McCarthy can actually CUT...
That’s the claim every time the left wants a big money hike for any department. If they want a 25% increase and only get 10%, they claim it’s a 15% cut. When in reality it’s a 10% increase. Then they wonder why we rank so low in math proficiency.
 
Thirty million fewer healthcare visits. Fewer staff, increased claims backlog, longer wait times for benefits. Almost a $30 billion shortfall for veterans funding. That’s the uncertainty that awaits America’s veterans, should Congressional Republicans succeed in dramatically slashing federal spending as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed on April 19.

Cutting care and services by nearly a quarter is a disservice to the men and women who have served this country, and befuddling given how often Republicans wrap themselves in the flag and embrace the veteran community.

Here’s what House Republican’s proposed cuts would mean for veterans — reduced veterans’ access to care, fewer staff to process claims, longer wait times for benefits, less support for national cemeteries, weakened VA cybersecurity and telehealth services, and a further deteriorated VA infrastructure. VA Secretary McDonough says the cuts could mean a potential reduction of 30 million healthcare visit for veterans and the loss of over 81,000 VA employees providing benefits to veterans.

This news is guaranteed to land with a thud in veterans’ communities nationwide. As members of Congress who sit on committees with jurisdiction over veterans issues, we hear from veterans, and the organizations that advocate on their behalf every day. We encourage our House Republican colleagues to ask our country’s 19 million veterans whether they think slashing investments in their well-being makes sense. Our guess is they won’t like the answer.

There’s a saying, “either put up or...” It’s time for Republicans to put their money where their mouth is, and demonstrate their commitment to America’s veterans by producing a budget that honors those who served, lest they allow veterans’ healthcare and benefits to be held hostage by the extreme wing of their party.

Veterans’ care and benefits are sacred promises we pay to our veterans as part of the cost of war and in acknowledgment of their sacrifice. We owe it to our nation’s veterans to honorably recognize their service — not subject them to political hijinks with potentially disastrous consequences.




I say let 'em eat cake!
 
The republicans are going to slash Medicare!
The republicans are going to slash Social Security!
The republicans are going to slash food stamps!
The republicans are going to slash meals on wheels!
The republicans are going to slash school lunches!
The republicans are going to slash VA bennies!
The republicans are going to slash Nathan MacKinnon on a breakaway and not get a penalty called!
The republicans are going to throw grammy over a cliff!
The republicans are going to throw the cheeeeldrennnnn out into the streets nekked!
The republicans ate my babby!

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Yet it’s the left that forced veterans out of their barracks and into tents so that illegals could have comfortable rooms. That’s how much the left “cares” about vets.
 
They're not...McCarthy has said the he wants to go pre-binge 2022 spending levels as a baseline....Not increasing spending is "slashing spending" to these compulsive liars.
Got it ... So do Republicans suck for maintaining a baseline or is it Democrats because they continue to believe the spin with untrue liberal propaganda and misinformation?
 
I saw it....The military is no different from any other bloated fucking welfare program.....And the Pentagon lies just as much as any other bureaucracy.

How about paying for vets by "slashing" stupid weapons systems that don't work and no General wanted?

The Military Times, Army Times, Navy and Air Force Times are big liberal rags that outdo the NYT and WaPo. Always have been.
 
House Republicans voted Wednesday to cut veterans’ services significantly and limit their health care. That’s just one aspect of Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling and budget cuts extortion package that passed 217-215, with all but four Republicans voting for it. Those four didn’t think the cuts were deep enough.

The bill would roll back spending for the 2024 fiscal year to 2022 levels, except for defense spending. Because it’s exempted, everything else would be cut by much more. That’s an estimated 22% cut, which the Veterans Administration says would mean the immediate loss of $2 billion in funding for veterans services, and 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits. The VA would lose 81,000 jobs. That would mean fewer employees to answer veterans’ phone calls, schedule health visits, process their disability claims, and provide other critical services.


Here’s the link I n the article from the VA


Let’s see the Magascum from usmb have to say about this.
You're a liar.
 
From The Military Times:


Thirty million fewer healthcare visits. Fewer staff, increased claims backlog, longer wait times for benefits. Almost a $30 billion shortfall for veterans funding. That’s the uncertainty that awaits America’s veterans, should Congressional Republicans succeed in dramatically slashing federal spending as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed on April 19.

Last Congress, we honored our promise to toxic-exposed veterans by providing benefits and care to approximately three million veterans exposed to toxins, including burn pits. However, this achievement is meaningless if the funding to implement it is gutted. Republicans have promised to reduce funding to fiscal year 2022 levels — which risks a 22% decrease in resources for veterans’ care and benefits. And many of them are calling for even deeper cuts.

the Military Times is hardly a Liberal Publication.

You cut benefits to vets, you hate the vets.
I hate you, you're a liar
 
None were cut.
Can you not flippin READ.

That’s an estimated 22% cut, which the Veterans Administration says would mean the immediate loss of $2 billion in funding for veterans services, and 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits. The VA would lose 81,000 jobs. That would mean fewer employees to answer veterans’ phone calls, schedule health visits, process their disability claims, and provide other critical services.

That is the problem with you dumbshits. You bury your ignorant ass head in the sand. Republicans should ditch the elephant and adopt the ostrich.
 
Can you not flippin READ.

That’s an estimated 22% cut, which the Veterans Administration says would mean the immediate loss of $2 billion in funding for veterans services, and 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits. The VA would lose 81,000 jobs. That would mean fewer employees to answer veterans’ phone calls, schedule health visits, process their disability claims, and provide other critical services.

That is the problem with you dumbshits. You bury your ignorant ass head in the sand. Republicans should ditch the elephant and adopt the ostrich.
I refuse to read your propaganda.
 
The "cuts" aren't cuts they are reductions in the rate of growth.

There are no CUTS.

foreign virus labs
Co2 fraud
funding trans shows in South America

Nope, nothing Kevin McCarthy can actually CUT...
If a department is forced to go back to 2022 funding levels in 2024, IT IS A DAMN CUT FROM 2023. How hard is that to understand?
 
Can you not flippin READ.

That’s an estimated 22% cut, which the Veterans Administration says would mean the immediate loss of $2 billion in funding for veterans services, and 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits. The VA would lose 81,000 jobs. That would mean fewer employees to answer veterans’ phone calls, schedule health visits, process their disability claims, and provide other critical services.

That is the problem with you dumbshits. You bury your ignorant ass head in the sand. Republicans should ditch the elephant and adopt the ostrich.
It's a lie. Do you believe everything you read?
 
This is who wrote the propaganda.
Rep. Mark A. Takano, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Chris Deluzio.
 

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