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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 12:14 AM Jun 2017

Proposed VA Benefit Cut Angers Elderly, Disabled Vets

Most likely this budget will never get past Congress.
It does however serve as a window into just how cruel this pResident is.

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The plan to cut financial support for aging and disabled veterans included in President Donald Trump's $1.1 trillion federal budget proposal has led to bitterness and confusion among the estimated 225,000 vets who could lose the payments.

The reductions may also trigger a political backlash against the president, who made reforming and increasing support for the Department of Veterans Affairs a major part of his campaign against Hillary Clinton.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/01/proposed-va-benefit-cut-angers-elderly-disabled-vets.html

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Proposed VA Benefit Cut Angers Elderly, Disabled Vets (Original Post) SHRED Jun 2017 OP
He's a pathalogical liar. He always has been. onecaliberal Jun 2017 #1
Shameful! McCamy Taylor Jun 2017 #2

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
2. Shameful!
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 03:40 AM
Jun 2017

They are cutting disability payments so that Secretary of Health Tom Price can do more CHOICE knee replacements. Bascially, they are condemning sick and elderly veterans to poverty so that the for profit health care sector can make more money.

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