MAGA Republicans $30 billion in budget cuts to veterans programs threaten health care, housing services, mental health & support for homeless veterans

[basquebromance]

Congressional Republicans' Legislation: 22% Cuts That Would Harm American Families, Seniors and Veterans | OMB | The White House

By Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Yesterday, Speaker McCarthy and Congressional Republicans doubled down on threatening default in order to extract a wish list of extreme, unrelated policies that will hurt hard-working families. The legislation Congressional...

www.whitehouse.gov

excerpt from the link:

What would that mean for the American people just in the first year of their plan? Consider just a few examples:

• Undermine Medical Care for Veterans: Cutting funding by 22 percent would mean 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits, and 81,000 jobs lost across the Veterans Health Administration—leaving veterans unable to get appointments for care including wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.
  
  
• Slash Funding for Schools with Low-Income Students and Students with Disabilities: A 22 percent cut would impact 25 million students in schools that teach low-income students and 7.5 million students with disabilities, which could force a reduction of up to 108,000 teachers, aides or other key staff.
  
  
• Eliminate Preschool and Child Care for Hundreds of Thousands of Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 200,000 children lose access to Head Start slots and another 180,000 children lose access to child care—undermining our children’s education and making it more difficult for parents to join the workforce and contribute to our economy.
  
  
• Strip Nutrition Assistance from Millions of Women, Infants, and Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 1.7 million women, infants, and children would lose vital nutrition assistance through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), significantly increasing child poverty and hunger.
  
  
• Rob Seniors of Healthy Meals: A 22 percent cut would take away nutrition services, such as Meals on Wheels, from more than 1 million seniors. For many of these seniors, these programs provide the only healthy meal they receive on any given day.
  
  
• Raise Housing Costs for Hundreds of Thousands: A 22 percent cut would eliminate funding for Housing Choice Vouchers for over 630,000 households, including 190,000 households headed by seniors and 50,000 veterans.
  
  
• Scale Back Rail Safety Inspections: A 22 percent cut would result in 7,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year alone, and 30,000 fewer miles of track inspected annually—enough track to cross the United States nearly 10 times.

These are just a few examples—the list goes on and on. A 22 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health would delay cancer and Alzheimer’s research. A 22 percent cut to the Army Corps of Engineers would affect key water resources projects all over the country. A 22 percent cut to the Department of Homeland Security would undermine border management and drug interdiction. And under their bill, these cuts would get even deeper over time. There is no escaping the pain to working families and our economic future: if they seek to protect any area from cuts, it only means more harmful cuts to all of the other painful impacts listed above.

 

[bripat9643]

America has a sacred obligation to care for our veterans. The Dem budget honors that commitment. The Republicans hate our vets and hurt them with their drastic cuts in services

Proposed GOP cuts would slash $30 billion from veterans spending

Opinion: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled sweeping proposed budget cuts in a bargain with the Biden administration over raising the nation’s debt limit.

www.militarytimes.com

There are no cuts.

 

[basquebromance]

There are no cuts.

there are no Americans. you're British! so don't meddle!

 

[ElmerMudd]

Maybe in your fantasyland.

.

You cannot be serious.

The MAGA Squad Is Building Power to Control the GOP Congress

The most hard-core, pro-Trump House Republicans have been building their power, and now they’re preparing to wield it.

time.com

 

[ElmerMudd]

Maybe in your fantasyland.

.

You cannot be serious.

The MAGA Squad Is Building Power to Control the GOP Congress

The most hard-core, pro-Trump House Republicans have been building their power, and now they’re preparing to wield it.

time.com

Congressional Republicans' Legislation: 22% Cuts That Would Harm American Families, Seniors and Veterans | OMB | The White House

By Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Yesterday, Speaker McCarthy and Congressional Republicans doubled down on threatening default in order to extract a wish list of extreme, unrelated policies that will hurt hard-working families. The legislation Congressional...

www.whitehouse.gov

excerpt from the link:

What would that mean for the American people just in the first year of their plan? Consider just a few examples:

• Undermine Medical Care for Veterans: Cutting funding by 22 percent would mean 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits, and 81,000 jobs lost across the Veterans Health Administration—leaving veterans unable to get appointments for care including wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.
  
  
• Slash Funding for Schools with Low-Income Students and Students with Disabilities: A 22 percent cut would impact 25 million students in schools that teach low-income students and 7.5 million students with disabilities, which could force a reduction of up to 108,000 teachers, aides or other key staff.
  
  
• Eliminate Preschool and Child Care for Hundreds of Thousands of Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 200,000 children lose access to Head Start slots and another 180,000 children lose access to child care—undermining our children’s education and making it more difficult for parents to join the workforce and contribute to our economy.
  
  
• Strip Nutrition Assistance from Millions of Women, Infants, and Children: A 22 percent cut would mean 1.7 million women, infants, and children would lose vital nutrition assistance through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), significantly increasing child poverty and hunger.
  
  
• Rob Seniors of Healthy Meals: A 22 percent cut would take away nutrition services, such as Meals on Wheels, from more than 1 million seniors. For many of these seniors, these programs provide the only healthy meal they receive on any given day.
  
  
• Raise Housing Costs for Hundreds of Thousands: A 22 percent cut would eliminate funding for Housing Choice Vouchers for over 630,000 households, including 190,000 households headed by seniors and 50,000 veterans.
  
  
• Scale Back Rail Safety Inspections: A 22 percent cut would result in 7,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year alone, and 30,000 fewer miles of track inspected annually—enough track to cross the United States nearly 10 times.

These are just a few examples—the list goes on and on. A 22 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health would delay cancer and Alzheimer’s research. A 22 percent cut to the Army Corps of Engineers would affect key water resources projects all over the country. A 22 percent cut to the Department of Homeland Security would undermine border management and drug interdiction. And under their bill, these cuts would get even deeper over time. There is no escaping the pain to working families and our economic future: if they seek to protect any area from cuts, it only means more harmful cuts to all of the other painful impacts listed above.

MAGA policies cut vetran benefits. MAGA followers attack and assault Capitol and DC police.
A fine group they are.

 

[busybee01]

I would like to see the entire context. Perhaps then we would see the story in its entirety,
and not just the bias bullet points

There is no bias. Rolling back spending is a cut pure and simple.

 

[busybee01]

I'm going to address something here right now... there are no MAGA republicans... there are republicans who voted for Trump along with millions of democrats... using Biden's words (MAGA republican) to describe a section of the republican party is dishonest and short sighted and is a way the dems can divide the party...

Yes there are MAGA republicans. However they are about attacking America not making it great.

 

[Rambunctious]

Yes there are MAGA republicans. However they are about attacking America not making it great.

Well you had better go find a safe place to hide than.....

 

[bripat9643]

there are no Americans. you're British! so don't meddle!

 

[basquebromance]

run along, "mate"

 

[bripat9643]

There is no bias. Rolling back spending is a cut pure and simple.

If we spend more this year than last year, that's not a cut, moron.

 

[bripat9643]

run along, "mate"

Make me, asshole.

 

[OKTexas]

You cannot be serious.

The MAGA Squad Is Building Power to Control the GOP Congress

The most hard-core, pro-Trump House Republicans have been building their power, and now they’re preparing to wield it.

time.com

MAGA policies cut vetran benefits. MAGA followers attack and assault Capitol and DC police.
A fine group they are.

Are you seriously going to quote Time and this regime?

.

 

[Meister]

There is no bias. Rolling back spending is a cut pure and simple.

Not rolling back spending. Just not increasing spending.....pure and simple.
Unless you use fuzzy math.

I think what you are saying is.......spending increases. say....10% a year.
This year spending is increasing only 7%, and you consider that a three percent cut in spending. got it

 

[basquebromance]

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Blues Man]

America has a sacred obligation to care for our veterans. The Dem budget honors that commitment. The Republicans hate our vets and hurt them with their drastic cuts in services

Proposed GOP cuts would slash $30 billion from veterans spending

Opinion: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled sweeping proposed budget cuts in a bargain with the Biden administration over raising the nation’s debt limit.

www.militarytimes.com

Are these actual cuts as in reductions in spending from previous years or are they merely cuts in the proposed increases in spending for future years?

 

[struth]

America has a sacred obligation to care for our veterans. The Dem budget honors that commitment. The Republicans hate our vets and hurt them with their drastic cuts in services

Proposed GOP cuts would slash $30 billion from veterans spending

Opinion: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled sweeping proposed budget cuts in a bargain with the Biden administration over raising the nation’s debt limit.

www.militarytimes.com

wow the horror the GOP wants to keep spending at 2022 levels

I don’t recall anyone claiming Vets were being dishonored in 2022 with those spending levels

 

[EMH]

In the mid 1990s, when Newt sent Bill Clinton a budget that cut taxes and spending, the Dems and the media went batshit.

Seniors tossed out in the streets. Kids at school starving. The sky was going to fall...

In the end, America got a booming economy with low end wage inflation, a budget surplus, a stable dollar with low interest rates, and confidence America was a good place to do business. The American people loved the result, and Bill Clinton, who shut the government down for more spending he never got, NOW TAKES CREDIT FOR IT...


Spending cuts that get loud hysterical whining from Dems and media

ARE ALWAYS GREAT FOR AMERICA


because they take money from treasonous lying worthless leeches and give that money back to the productive side of America.

 

[Clipper]

Easy fix. Lets just transfer the money the Potahead Administration is giving to the goddamn Illegals to the veterans. Problem solved.

How about it Moon Bats?

If McCarthy's face wasen't up Trump's ass & the asses of the psycho caucus who's he's indebted to, the debt limit would be a done deal by now.

If you pulled your head out of your own ass you'd see that.