Jon Stewart passionately defended the PACT Act after GOP blocked the veterans’ health bill on Capitol Hill.
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Those Republican lawmakers that votes against this don’t believe military veterans’ lives matter
Will Fox News cover this? Hahaha.
400 billion of discretionary spending unrelated to veterans. Republicans scuttled the PACT Act because of a surprise deal on health care and environmental policies announced by Senate Democratic leaders. They are always trying to throw in their pet projects and pork to say yes to anything. They can never agree to something without getting something out of it for their own agenda. Just like every time they pass spending bills avoid government shutdown or the covid BS. Dems just have to throw garbage in it to benefit themselves…
Politicians don't give a shit about people. It is all about their money, power and control.
When a veteran is near death perhaps it would be a good idea to put up a cot with signs in front of the senate building and die in public view. List each and every politician who voted to block passage of the PACT bill. Do it over and over until things are done as they should be.
Don't be brainwashed people, if it got blocked it's because there is something corrupt in it that Democrats tried to sneak by, like every other bill they try to get passed there's something in it to make a handful of people monstrously rich at the taxpayers expense.
Shame on the Republicans party. Stop playing games with people lives. They served their country and we own they big time. Vote Blue
The delusional Trump's far-right GOP has so far voted NO to anything that would have benefited the citizens of the United States. The only YES of the extreme right-wing GOP is the YES to the election lie of the delusional Donald Trump, because they are born cowards, liars and as National Socialists they are a disgrace to the USA.
Right on
Or they could just allow the amendment by Toomey and pass it immediately but they want another $460B discretionary spending hole to fill with God only knows what new spending!
Like Donald said veterans are stupid and losers. The GOP has turned themselves into a party of cruelty
Jon Stewart is a "woke" idiot and needs to change his 'drama' attitude. He does not know what the Dems tried to do that screwed the Vets. The Democrats double the VA bill but added that they could use the extra money for "the discretionary side of the federal budget." Thus taking the extra VA money and use it for 'woke policies" and not on the Vets
Cute title but it’s not just the GOP. The democrats are even worse, and usually completely corrupt. Look a Pelosi, she’s the walking poster child of corruption.
Yep, republicans showing they hate veterans again.
They shouldn't be able to vote on raises for themselves. We vote them in and then we should have a way of sending a msg regarding job performance in between.
Good job advocating for US Veterans and denouncing the hypocrisy and cruelty of these bastards in the Senate whose main concern is MONEY and underage children they can abuse!
Joe Biden Left 85 billion dollars worth of military equipment to the same terrorist organization that was responsible for blowing up 13 brave service members in Afghanistan and yet not one Democrat was outraged over that,, but now that it's convenient for them to disparage the Republicans,, they are all over it..where was John Stuart then.
The PACT Act as written includes a budget gimmick that would allow $400 billion of current law spending to be moved from the discretionary to the mandatory spending category. This provision is completely unnecessary to achieve the PACT Act’s stated goal of expanding health care and other benefits for veterans. However, it would enable an additional $400 billion in future discretionary spending completely unrelated to veterans. By failing to remove this gimmick, Congress would effectively be using an important veterans care bill to hide a massive, unrelated spending binge.
I find it interesting that there is nothing mentioned about why 30 Republican Senators changed there minds over a $400,000,000,000 change in the bill.
I found that someone said this about this guy Pat Toomey:
"Deep in the NBC story, the reporters acknowledged that “Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., who voted against the legislation in June, has remained vocally critical of the bill. Yesterday, after the vote, he said that the bill included a “budget gimmick” that moved $400 billion over 10 years from “discretionary to the mandatory spending category,” which he considered unreasonable.”
It's easy to hate people when we set them up like this by changing a bill that everyone had supported by changing it so that the opposing party will vote against it due to a change that a budget technical thing that is hard to explain. I just wonder why nothing is mentioned about the democrats that changed this bill? They're using the lives of veterans as a pawn to gen up political hate against the republicans and nothing is mentioned about any of this. FYI, I don't like political parties because both side like to pull this kind of childish manipulations to gen up hate and it is destroying our country.
It is disgusting that we would allow burn pits like this at all.
I don't know why our courts aren't flooded with law suits against the US government for this.
Who's really responsible if democrats writing this bill changed it to add $400 Billion to the budget that doesn't actually have help these veterans, or are Pat Toomey and the rest of the 30 republicans lying about the changes? It seems like this should be something the news reporters could look up and share if the actually did their jobs and weren't a bunch of hate mongers at both ends of the political spectrum.
The problem isn't with the 200 billion for "this" benefit. The problem is the 400 billion that's already being paid out for some time the under discretionary category where this bill would then move 600 billion into the "mandatory" spending category. The problem with this is that under the mandatory spending category it almost never has any oversite. This was the problem with Social Security that now has no budget and no real congressional oversite. Too many fingers in the pie so to speak. The Republicans simply want to know why they need a bill that moves the whole enchilada into that category?
Jon your are the MAN! Thank you for supporting vets
I noticed that FOX news doesn't cover this. Vote Democrats
People do not realize if this act was to pass, the only people getting rich will be the lawyers. Imagine if everybody that had a fallen soldier in their family could sue the military. Camp Lejeune lawsuit killed this ACT.
I dont think anyone could have said it better!!!!! Right on!!!
Why doesn't the Democrat party put a man like John Stewart in charge instead of the bumbling fool we have? We need a man who leads with this kind of common sense and passion!
If it is like you say why don’t the democrats just change it back and take away the republican’s excuse ?
This is politics at its worst. There are three steps to the process, and the third has only two outcomes.
First, Democrats get Republicans to tentatively agree on a spending bill that is designed to help injured and sick veterans.
Second, after Republicans have agreed in good faith to pass the bill, Democrats change the way the money is allocated to make it essentially a slush fund.
Third: If Republicans ultimately vote to pass the bill, the government gets to grab most or all of the slush fund money to spend on whatever they want. If Republicans vote against the bill due to the eleventh-hour changes, it's because they are "hypocrites" who "hate our Veterans" and "want people to die".
Of course, none of this spending matters much because America as a country is completely broke. But one has to admire the political brilliance of a move like this… and it has been effective.
Some conservatives have raised objections to the bill because it would reclassify nearly $400 billion in current-law VA spending from discretionary to mandatory accounts, thereby potentially freeing up more budget authority to increase discretionary spending on other domestic programs.”
remember these republicans and make sure they know that they have zero morality.
Man go take a seat these people don't care about none of y'all lol lol lok
GQP WANTS TO VOTE ON THIS EVERY YEAR TO SEE IF THEY THINK IT'S WORTH KEEPING. VOTE BLUE
I can see 99% of the folks commenting here are as ill informed as Mr. Stewart, which isn't surprising since 99% of Americans are ill informed due to LEFTist media only providing 1% of the information needed to make any sort of informative conclusion. The fact of the matter is, Democrats tried to shift $400 billion in spending from discretionary to mandatory spending, which is a really questionable action. GOP members caught wind of this last minute and THAT is why they dropped out of supporting the bill. This has nothing to do with the GOP not supporting the Bill that was initially showcased, but rather Democrats who constantly love to modify stuff before the final draft.