White House: US Can't Afford Veterans Healthcare Without Cuts
White House: US Can't Afford Veterans Healthcare Without Cuts
Last year, the Trump administration insisted that its regressive tax cuts were so important, it was worth adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt to ensure their passage. Now, the White House is warning Congress that the United States cannot afford to add $1.6 billion to the deficit to expand health-care options for veterans. In a letter Monday, the Trump administration demanded that lawmakers fund a popular veterans health-care program which allows former troops to spend public funds on private doctors and hospitals with cuts to other parts of the budget. Democrats, and some top Senate Republicans, prefer to raise the current caps on discretionary spending instead. The case for the latter.....
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Fuck them, they just gave a Trillion in Tax cuts to their Billionaire doners!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)As I read this I had a sense that the whole shell game for our Veterans and healthcare is to privatize it, and drown the VA in a bathtub. The VA isn't perfect, but, it works. For the vast majority of Veterans.They are govt tax dollars that need to be spent on the Govt institution that is the Veterans Admin. Make it better. Stop destroying stuff repubs.
enough
(13,259 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Where's the VFW? Where's the American Legion? Crickets.
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)elleng
(130,902 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Which will necessitate cuts to social security and Medicare.
And still Trump loyalists will support him
procon
(15,805 posts)Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)Well, yes, it's entirely believable.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)So depraved and selfish.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Ohiogal
(31,998 posts)Billionaire Donors -- gift them with deficit causing tax cuts! They pay too much!
Veterans - Sorry we can't increase the deficit to give you basic healthcare. We'll have to cut it back some more.
They are all despicable.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)safeinOhio
(32,676 posts)I was told those tax would not cost the budget anything. In fact growth would more than cover the cuts Money was going to rain down from heaven. Ayn Rand promised it.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Lets start by cutting all Trumps golf trips. Im sure theres a Putt-Putt within driving distance of the White House.
Rhiannon12866
(205,323 posts)I went to a ceremony just today honoring my great uncle's WWI service and there were many elderly veterans there, Korea, Vietnam, etc. The government officials there went on about pride of the generations of service in his family - son went to Korea and a granddaughter to West Point - but what's the point if they're abandoned by the country they served?
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)You can have your surgery or you can have a marching band. Don says you can't have both.