Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Erica Werner and Lisa Rein

June 6 at 8:01 AM

President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans’ access to private-sector health care. But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.

The VA Mission Act authorizes new health care programs for veterans, but the bill does not reserve federal money to pay for those programs. A group of powerful Senate committee chairmen aims to remedy that by amending a separate measure to pay for the new $50 billion law, saying that adding the funds is the best way to ensure the new programs give veterans access to medical care. But the White House has engaged in a quiet effort to thwart the senators’ plan, encouraging lawmakers to vote it down and instead asking Congress to pay for the veterans programs by cutting spending elsewhere.

White House officials are circulating a memo on Capitol Hill this week that slams the senators’ proposal as “anathema to responsible spending” and that predicts it would lead to ballooning costs and “virtually unlimited increases” in veterans’ spending on private health care.

“Without subjecting the program to any budgetary constraint, there is no incentive to continue to serve veterans with innovative, streamlined and efficient quality of care,” the administration says in the memo, which was obtained by The Washington Post.

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[relogic]

1. Vile, cynicism and spitefullness...

of epic proportions. May this sob and his underfunding-to-weaken-and-destroy-minions-of-cruel-and-impractical-governing find their place in hell or some actual eternal prison for all those without a heart.

[turbinetree]

2. But this orange POS has spent millions of taxpayer dollars flying down to his rat infested resort

so that he can pad is accounts and then to top it all off the military crew and maintenance personnel that fly and maintain the aircraft, get no funding in this plan when they retire........................fucking asshole





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[duforsure]

3. He's doing the same thing with Social Security

Saying he'll protect it while they now are doing things to destroy it.

[IronLionZion]

4. Publicly support veterans while privately screwing them

is standard GOP practice. Trump's people are just too stupid to hide it.

[denbot]

5. Typical GOP bullshit, unlimited funding for defense contractors, crumbs for us veterans.

Trump, Ryan, Linsey, the GOP en mass, treat us like the soggy tissues used to dry their crocodile tears.

[ROB-ROX]

6. THE DRAFT DODGER

The Dturd was a draft dodger and does not support VETERANS or Americans. His evil ways have morally bankrupted this country. The GOP never supports Americans or this country. They are just doing what their MASTERS want them to do which is criminal activities...............