yes it is mandatory spending that is what they said. What you refuse to acknowledge is that mandatory 400B on top of the money for VA is not allocated toward anything and they can use how they want. The only stipulation is they have to spend it, ie mandatory
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We have access to great healthcare. The VA is where doctors who barely graduate end up. 
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These are the same crocodiles who cried âno blood for oil!â that now have the gall to thank veterans for their service. 
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Well, theyâre gonna hafta.
Meanwhile, that picture of Senators fist bumping the billâs defeat will just sit out there on slow burn
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About 15 seconds of it.
Good.
If thereâs a slush fund included on this thing nuke it.
I have no problem with senators celebrating doing a good jobâŚI do when leftists lie about the situation.
Sneakyâs rightâŚshred the pork and give us a bill that deals with what it says it deals withâŚ
The optics are still bad.
I dunno if Iâd call it a lie. They did vote against it and they did celebrate after
There are lots of bad optics out thereâŚ
On both sides of the aisle.
That fist bump can live in the archives of bad opticsâŚmost of which are washed away by the next news cycle.
Itâs pretty bad.
Lots of bad optics have found their way to the dustbin of history.
Itâs a good thing the senate isnât gong to be decided by a thin margin in a few months
And upcoming campaign ads
ON 6-16, they voted for it.
Nothing in the bill changed.
Then they voted against it.
Well thatâs not true. Every article I have read mentions something like âminor technical changesâ. But I canât find any further details.
Did you watch the Stewart rant?
I trust him over any pol.
Toomy and Cruz said the spending went from discretionary to mandatory.
That is a lie. It was always mandatory.
The only changes i see when it came back form the House were these:
The Senate had to retake the bill up on Wednesday because the House passed some minor changes in its version.
The legislation adds 23 toxic and burn pit exposure conditions to the Department of Veterans Affairs database, while expanding care for post-9/11 veterans who were exposed to the burn pits.
The burn pits were used for the combustion of medical waste, human waste and other waste needed for disposal. Exposures to those toxins can lead to asthma, rhinitis and cancer.
Yeah, it was pretty powerful. I am just reluctant to argue that they voted against a bill that they just voted for, until I know what those changes are
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Remember when you believed hunters lap top was Russian misinformation because â50 intel peopleâ said so? The left liesâŚalways. They lie when the truth would work.
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Itâs illegitimate because these are the only changes the bill went through after its initial passage.
So if there was a âslush fundâ, it was also in the bill many GOP senators voted for when it passed 84-14 the first time.
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