Not only that but Jameslie is a liberal and they have never cared about the military. As with most things they feign outrage at something they don't support in the first place.Read the bill dumbass, ppl can't get into a VA now and you think giving them a false promise will magically get these ppl in over a major backlog. They voted no because it doesn't do anything to admit them but provide a false promise...unless you are under this impression govt entities ate efficient
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, summed up the concern as stemming from promising lots of assistance “that might look really good,” but the bottom line is that those “who really need the care would never get into a VA facility.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), another member of the panel, agreed. “What we’re concerned with is that you’ve got a backlog of 222,000 cases now, and if you implement, by legislative fiat, the 23 presumptions, we’re gonna go to a million and a half to two and a half million backlog,” he said. Tillis has advanced his own burn pits bill that would leave it to the military and VA to determine which illnesses automatically were presumed to be service-connected. That tally is likely to cover fewer people. “So the question we have is, while making a new promise, are we going to be breaking a promise for all those veterans that need care today?”
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