In the Majority's Taking Benefits from America's Veterans Act, they proposed cuts to veterans' benefits instead of charging the DoD. We should not be picking the pockets of the men and women who served. We must honor our promise and take care of our nation's veterans.
This bill is the "Taking Benefits from America's Veterans Act". DoD should be paying for this bill, but instead Republicans are siphoning money from veterans to pay for the watered-down Major Richard Star Act.
Republicans are hoping to pass their TAKING BENEFITS FROM AMERICA'S VETERANS ACT before veterans realize it cuts tens of BILLIONS in future disability benefits, increases VA home-loan fees, expands privatization of VA health care, and hurts them.
Let’s make sure everyone knows the truth.
Every veteran in this country was promised that if you serve, you earn your retirement. And if you’re injured serving, you earn your disability. But that’s not the reality today.
Veterans medically retired for combat injuries before serving 20 years are forced to forfeit part of their earned military retirement pay just to receive their VA disability compensation. Two separate promises, and we’re keeping only one. The Major Richard Star Act ends that offset and pays both in full.
This isn’t a partisan bill. It has 334 cosponsors in the House and 79 in the Senate. I recently signed a discharge petition to force a floor vote and finally get it done.
Now Mike Johnson and House Republicans have taken a bill that should unite us and ruined it. Their “Take Care of America’s Veterans” package, which includes the Star Act, pays for it by cutting future benefits for other veterans. It’s a change the Disabled American Veterans estimates would cost 1.5 million veterans roughly $57 billion over the next decade.
Robbing one wounded warrior to pay another is a lousy deal. Bring the clean bill to the floor. Keep the promises we made to our veterans.
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Disability ratings are not supposed to be budgetary tools. They are part of the nation’s commitment to compensate veterans for injuries incurred in service to their country. When Congress alters ratings to fund other priorities, it transforms what should be an evidence-based medical determination into a political calculation. https://t.co/xTDaoSxbFj #VFW #Veterans #VeteranAdvocacy #HonorTheContract #VeteranBenefits
Congress should not reduce earned disability compensation for future disabled veterans to pay for other priorities, especially when the Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that no changes are planned or imminent. Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to get connected directly to the office of any U.S. Senator or Representative and tell them to keep the promise to America’s veterans by not stripping their benefits to pay for others ➡️ https://t.co/7380TgFK3c.
Make no mistake about it: Republicans are trying to cut VA benefits and privatize the VA. This is exactly why Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) oppose this bad bill.
The GOP better buckle up for a fight…
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