This week, the House will vote on the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act.This legislation includes nearly 60 bills, including several bipartisan priorities that we have authored and fought to advance as the top Democrats on the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees — most notably the Major Richard Star Act.
Unfortunately, Republicans have chosen a partisan path to advance this legislation, and we have a serious problem with how they are proposing to pay for it.To cover the costs of the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, Republicans want to slash benefits for disabled veterans.This reduction would come in the form of devastating cuts for millions of veterans currently eligible to receive disability benefits for tinnitus and sleep apnea.The Republican insistence on offsetting new investments in veterans is both absurd and cruel.
The cost of war includes the human cost of caring for our veterans.We make a promise to care for these men and women after their service, and a great nation keeps its promises.TRUMP-ALIGNED HOUSE HOLDOUTS ACCUSED OF HOLDING 'LIFE-SAVING' VETERANS BILL 'HOSTAGE' OVER SAVE AMERICA ACTFrustratingly, the Republicans’ insistence on using this funding mechanism, known as an offset, is applied inconsistently and selectively.
For instance, they spent $3.4 trillion to deliver tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy in the One Big Beautiful Bill last summer, with no regard to offsetting those costs.Despite this reality, Republicans claim the only viable path forward for the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act is enacting unprecedented cuts to disabled veterans’ benefits.A visitor at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Our veterans deserve meaningful results from a grateful nation — not empty promises. (AP)We are here to say that is simply not true.Those cuts are not acceptable to congressional Democrats or to the growing list of veterans service organizations and stakeholders who have publicly and forcefully opposed t...