Republicans Deny Benefits For Veterans

benefit package signed today by the but I am not because that bill died in the Senate yesterday when it failed to get the sixty votes needed

to overcome until about and you will never guess which party I mean we all know which party is on the side of they

tell us all the time remember when they all headed to the World War two memorial during the government shutdown to complain that

leann Gary our add on in a political game got Republicans

will call on anybody who wants to use veterans as Paul well guess what they did when Democrats led by independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders tried

to add an unrelated poison pill amendments to that veterans bill that would impose new sanctions on Iraq why

try to attack Iran sanctions amendment onto that that's built as McConnell told reporters we've been trying for months to get a debate and a vote on

new sanctions regime on Iraq which both the White House and Iran in say would threaten the historic all

that right now represent the best chance we have think about that from Republicans were pushing and that could heighten a possibility of another war this

time with Iran at the very same time they were working to kill a bill that would help the veterans of

the last two wars this from the party that would know use better friends as political pawns Harry

Reid for one was not have twenty six veterans organization including the American Legion and the veterans of foreign wars part

of that much plus twenty four of the Beckley Jordan's and what happens over here the Republican they figured out a way to say no they

always do that GOP also argued the veterans bill cost too much and it wasn't paid for and this this is really important the

twenty one billion dollars for the bill was set to come out of what's called the overseas contingency operation for upon

used to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq now there's some money left over in that fun because we are drawing down have drawn down Iraq are drawing down Afghanistan Republicans

say that money doesn't they point out as the conservative heritage action did in telling Republicans to vote no on this bill that

the money is not recognized as real savings by the Congressional Budget and that is true but so was yes that money is a

we plan to stay longer and Afghanistan how we still been there in Iraq believe you me we would have spent that and

that spending would have been very very very real I think about it the CBO says this bill would have increased the deficit and

you know what I say you can run a deficit to go to war you can run a deficit to take care of the people joining

me now is a sponsor of that veterans build the chair of the Senate committee on Veterans Affairs senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont senator

all the heritage action heritage action told conservatism Republicans to vote no they said the multi billion dollar bill fails to make necessary reforms to the system that is already overburdened

flawed harming both veteran truly in need of a sister taxpayers in the process when he said it well I say they're dead wrong and

crisp what I have learned since I've been chairman of the Veterans Committee is the cost of war is much deeper and