White House: US Can't Afford Veterans Healthcare Without Cuts

[BlueDog22]

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.....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/c15ccc4a-809e-3dea-937c-2b872a6ae92c/ss_white-house%3A-u.s.-can%E2%80%99t.html

[secondwind]

1. Bullshit. We need to protect our people!!

[whathehell]

5. Absolutely!!!

Fuck them, they just gave a Trillion in Tax cuts to their Billionaire doners!

[lagomorph777]

21. Probably a bad idea to piss off millions of people with military training.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Give the money back.

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]

3. Time to claw back those tax cuts. NT

[dalton99a]

12. Bingo

[CanonRay]

4. For the zillionth time

Where's the VFW? Where's the American Legion? Crickets.

[Bleacher Creature]

7. They're too worried about NFL players protesting police brutality. NT

[elleng]

6. White House LIES.

[Freethinker65]

8. And just in time for the next round of deficit producing tax cuts

Which will necessitate cuts to social security and Medicare.

And still Trump loyalists will support him

[procon]

9. Fine. Cut those goddam tax cuts to the rich. Problem solved. nt

[Turbineguy]

10. Trump screwing over Veterans?

Well, yes, it's entirely believable.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Republican thieves

So depraved and selfish.

[dalton99a]

13. The traitor doesn't work for our side

[Ohiogal]

14. Obvious who is more important to the Party of Trump

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]

18. Dubya's admin was the same

[safeinOhio]

15. Wait a minute

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]

16. Okay...

Let’s start by cutting all Trump’s golf trips. I’m sure there’s a Putt-Putt within driving distance of the White House.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Sounds good to me! The taxpayers have already spent millions on that!

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]

19. "A trillion to defend our billionaires but not one cent for veterans!"

[Vinca]

20. But we can afford military parades to "honor" veterans.

You can have your surgery or you can have a marching band. Don says you can't have both.