Oh and also some exit polls show that veterans voted 58% of veterans voted for Republicans this past election too.
Leopard food for thought.
You’d have thought he’d lost the votes of veterans after…
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Used the phrase suckers and losers
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Slashed VA benefits and budgets early on in first term
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Pissed on the sanctity of Arlington by having his people assault an Army employee so he could take campaign pics with grieving family members
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This bill cuts future disability benefits, codifies disability-rating reductions as a cost saving measure, places a cap on benefits, and raise VA home loan fees.
Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”, just let them own it and then come out talking about how Republicans unanimously screwed over Iran war veterans affordability from now until the end of time.
Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”,
The article you posted explains it:
Furious Democrats accused Republicans of playing “dirty pool.” They said Republicans pulled Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, away from the podium, where he was leading the Democratic side of the debate, in order to discuss changes to the bill. It was during that parley — while Takano was away from his microphone — that McDowell fast-tracked the proposal, they said.
“After publicly announcing a recorded vote on the TCAVA legislation, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections,” a Democratic leadership aide said.
“While members and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within seconds — depriving Democrats of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history,” the aide added.
“On Veterans Day of all days, using dirty tricks to steal from Veterans is a disgrace.”
designed to increase pay for disabled and injured veterans. Democrats opposed the GOP’s Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA), saying it would expand some veterans’ benefits by slashing others
More dogshit reporting. If the story is “there are two competing bills”, the reporting needs to include the differences between the bills.
It even later says “the bill revises …”, which tells us nothing because the revision could be in a good direction or a bad direction. Like if youbare talking about the disability rating for tinnitus, you could say “it increases the rating” or it “decreases”, and it’s the same amount of words but actually describes what the bill would do.