j stid

Combat wounded medically retired advocate for the ##MajorRichardStarAct

[Guy's Channel @Politic56721677]

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"The people will not accept a takeover".

[j stid @j_stid]

@DeztroReal @zarahussain999 This one wins

[j stid @j_stid]

@zarahussain999 Weird how you are offended by rapists and murderers getting killed. I guess being against raping and murdering is Islamophobia.

[j stid @j_stid]

@RmSalih Maybe stop being a cult of sexual degeneracy and human sacrifice if you are so offended.

[Rep. Josh Riley @RepRileyNY]

If you put your life on the line for our country, you deserve every penny of the benefits you earned. But right now, a Washington loophole is taxing our wounded warriors out of their retirement pay. That’s why I’m fighting to force a vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would end this “wounded warrior tax” once and for all.

[j stid @j_stid]

@SenBlumenthal Thank you #MajorRichardStarAct

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

This week, I will again demand passage of the Major Richard Star Act on the Senate Floor, & plan on forcing votes on the legislation during the NDAA markup. 1/

[j stid @j_stid]

@VFWHQ @VFW_OfficeDC This is important and I'm glad that you are doing it. I and many others can't help but notice how quite the VSOs have gotten on the #MajorRichardStarAct lately at a time when the pressure should be on to push this across the finish line.

[j stid @j_stid]

@DonJBacon @54KVeterans @DanielBledsoe76 @RepDonBacon @HASCRepublicans @RepLuna @RepVanDrewStaff @HouseGOP @HouseVetAffairs @HouseAppropsGOP @HouseDemocrats @starsandstripes @HouseForeign @RepThomasMassie You said that you would sign the discharge. Instead you are watering down the bill all the while you send 40 million a week to the Taliban while hoping that combat wounded medically retired just eventually shut up and die. Get us the retirements we were rated for a good reason!

[j stid @j_stid]

@RepDonBacon How about signing HR1247 and stop trying to water down the #MajorRichardStarAct and take care of combat wounded medically retired. We are all getting really angry with these procedural games.

[Don Bacon 🇺🇸 🥓 ✈️ 🏍️ ⭐️ 🎖️ @DonJBacon]

@54KVeterans @DanielBledsoe76 @RepDonBacon @HASCRepublicans @RepLuna @RepVanDrewStaff @HouseGOP @HouseVetAffairs @HouseAppropsGOP @HouseDemocrats @starsandstripes @HouseForeign @RepThomasMassie I’ve had 31,000 phone calls on one week. When the Chairman supports the legislation then you don’t do a discharge. You may want work with the committee instead of fighting it.

[j stid @j_stid]

@DavidWarrenVet @RepDonBacon @MajStarAct @Eve_hel1 @HASCRepublicans Dude if he isn't signing the discharge petition then he is trying to negotiate into watering it down into something that is not the #MajorRichardStarAct

[j stid @j_stid]

@RepDonBacon @Eve_hel1 @HASCRepublicans We don't like what you are working behind closed doors. We don't want negotiations. The language in the discharge petition is the #MajorRichardStarAct and any watering down you and other lawmakers try to do is not. We want to pass the #MajorRichardStarAct not something else.

[j stid @j_stid]

@Eve_hel1 @RepDonBacon @HASCRepublicans Don't thank him. They are negotiating into watering it down behind closed doors. Which is why they won't sign the discharge petition. The discharge petition is the way and the pressure from it is the only way this gets done cleanly.

[j stid @j_stid]

@kniftarqr9y @Kimberl65225061 @RepGusBilirakis @MajStarAct @grok He is working with lawmakers into a negotiated watered down version. He is not doing it right. Discharge petition is the way.

[j stid @j_stid]

@kniftarqr9y @RepGusBilirakis He's fucking us

[j stid @j_stid]

@SenRonJohnson @weldeiry @SabinehazanMD How about you stop blocking the #MajorRichardStarAct and allow combat wounded medically retired to recieve their earned pensions

[j stid @j_stid]

@RepGusBilirakis Could you sign the discharge petition HR1247?

[54KVeterans @54KVeterans]

Roger Wicker blocked the Major Richard Star Act on October 8, 2025.

Ron Johnson blocked it again on March 3, 2026.

Now H.Res. 1247 puts every House member on record.

This is how Republicans ended up with combat injured veterans watching the midterms under a microscope.

For years, politicians used the Major Richard Star Act for speeches, photo ops, press releases, and campaign talking points. Now the question is simple.

Will they sign the discharge petition and force the vote?

Or will they let 54,000 combat injured veterans keep losing the retirement pay they already earned?

Veterans are watching. Families are watching. Staffers are watching. Swing districts are watching.

If Republican leadership thought blocking this bill would disappear before midterms, they badly misread the room.

Sign H.Res. 1247.

Pass the Major Richard Star Act.

#MajorStarAct #HR1247 #54kVeterans

[Pass The Major Star Act @majorStarActNow]

@codeofvets #majorRichardStarAct
Mark Takano introduced H.Res. 1247 on April 30, 2026, to force consideration of the Major Richard Star Act.

Under House rules, because this is a special rule resolution sent to the Rules Committee, there is a required waiting period before signatures can begin. The seven legislative-day waiting period you mentioned is correct in principle. Based on the timeline, May 18 being the opening day for signatures sounds plausible.

What matters politically now is this:

Once signatures open, every signature becomes public.
They need 218 signatures.
Democrats will probably sign at a very high rate.
The real battlefield is Republicans who already cosponsored the underlying Major Richard Star Act.

You’re probably right that this cycle is different politically. The GOP already has over 100 Republican cosponsors on the underlying bill, and medically retired combat veterans are one of the hardest groups politically to oppose publicly. Midterm pressure absolutely increases the odds leadership may quietly tolerate some defections.

But here’s the key distinction:

Supporting a bill as a cosponsor is politically easier than signing a discharge petition.

A discharge petition is viewed inside the House as directly challenging leadership control. That is why historically many petitions stall somewhere between 190–215 signatures. Leadership pressure becomes intense near the finish line.

Still, the environment here is unusually favorable because:

the issue polls well,
it has bipartisan backing,
it directly affects combat-wounded veterans,
and the Republican majority margin is small.

That combination makes this much more viable than a normal discharge effort.

If Democrats stay unified, they likely would only need a few dozen Republicans to sign. The biggest unknown is whether House GOP leadership decides:

to fight it aggressively, or
to allow enough members to sign to avoid political damage with veterans before the midterms.

I would not call passage guaranteed yet — but I do think this is one of the stronger discharge petition efforts the veterans community has had in years.
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