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Title: Jon Stewart Goes Full 'Useful Idiot' After Dems Sneak $400B Of 'Mandatory' Spending Into Veterans' Health Care Bill
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political ... pork-veterans-health-care-bill
Published: Jul 31, 2022
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2022-07-31 19:58:58 by Horse
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You may have noticed last week that pundit Jon Stewart went on a self-righteous rant about how evil Republicans are because they voted against the PACT Act this week, would have helped veterans affected by burn pits. Watch Jon Stewart’s full speech Thursday slamming Republican senators for stalling the PACT Act, which would expand health care for veterans affected by burn pits. https://twitter.com/i/status/1552758921579872256 Stewart, however, failed to explain why Republicans shot down the bill - which was passed in June with bipartisan support, but was then put up for a re-vote after the House made a change to the tune of $400 billion - shifting it from the 'discretionary' spending category to 'mandatory' - which Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) said last week was "completely unnecessary to achieve the PACT Act's stated goal of expanding health care and other benefits for veterans." The change would also exempt the $400 billion from annual congressional appropriations - essentially making it a blank check. Enter (veteran) Jack Posobiec... Had a friend ask me to look into the @JonStewart meltdown about the PACT bill and the nonpartisan CBO has 2 different scores for the House bill and Senate bill, with a gimmick to reclassify $400B discretionary spending to direct This is all GOP Senators asked to take out. Here are links to the House and Senate bill scores from the CBO, again, an non-partisan office https://t.co/e1e4ZrrSvy https://t.co/cFMclUYM7o Joseph Hickman @JosephHickman0 I literally wrote the book on the burn pits. Jack is right, everyone would have voted for it, if the Dems didn’t add 400 billion dollars in additional spending to the bill that has nothing to do with the burn pits. It was a political move in an election year. More via the Post Millennial: Posobiec cited Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey, who said that his "concern about the bill has nothing to do with the purpose of the bill. It's not about about the $280 billion, approximately $280 billion of new spending that is meant to be required under this bill for the VA [Veteran's Administration] to cover healthcare, and other benefits for veterans who are exposed to toxic burn pits. "What I want to change," Toomey continued, "has absolutely nothing to do with any of that." Toomey said that he expects that there would be 85 votes for the bill if the issue was remedied. "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," Toomey said in a statement. Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Jon Stewart continues to be a liar, meanwhile. Earlier this year he claimed he never called Harry Potter anti-Semitic and I caught him changing his YouTube video titles after the controversy went viral 
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