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Veterans Advocate: House $1.1 Trillion Budget Bill a ‘Total Betrayal’

Written by on January 20, 2014

The House’s $1.1 trillion spending bill, passed Wednesday, cuts most veterans’ retirement benefits and is a “total betrayal” of those who served in the military, says the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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“It’s a promise that’s been made with our military folks when they raised their right hand and they sign up,” the organization’s founder, Paul Rieckhoff, told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on her show Wednesday night, calling the budget plan a “whole new level of bipartisan stupidity.”
The spending bill does remove a previous cut to cost-of-living increases included in a compromise budget plan announced in December by co-chairs Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, for disabled military veterans and survivors, reports Stars and Stripes.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, said the move will “right a wrong in this bill and keep faith with our veterans.”

The initial cuts outraged veterans’ groups, who said the legislation was done without consulting them and included disabled veterans who rely on military retirement pay as their sole income source.

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Source: Veterans Today

Author: Sandy Fitzgerald – Newsmax.com

 


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