“What Toomey’s amendment wants to do is make sure our sick and dying veterans have the pleasure our 9/11 first responders at Ground Zero had of having to come back to Washington, hat in hand, riddled with cancer, and march through the halls of the hill begging for money every year,” Stewart said on ABC’s This Week. The comedian called out Toomey for proposing an amendment that would “put caps on” the fund and sunsetting it after 10 years. Stewart additionally sparred with Toomey, who called Stewart a “pseudo-celebrity” on CNN Sunday. and the sweltering heat, demanding that they pass this legislation that they have been fighting for, for 15 years.” “The difference between mandatory and discretionary is… that’s just a word salad that he’s spewing into his coffee cup on his way to God knows where as veterans sit in Washington, D.C. Senate Finally Passes Bill Boosting Health Benefits for Vets After Republicans Pulled Support “The reason they did that is they want to spend $400 billion more discretionary funds on completely unrelated matters, so it is just part of the out of control spending from the left.” “The Democrats played a budgetary trick, which is they took $400 billion in discretionary spending and they shifted it to mandatory,” Cruz said. Meet the Press then played a video of Cruz being interviewed in an airport. The text of the bill they voted for June 14th is the same bill.” They all just got this mumbo jumbo about a budgetary gimmick, but nothing changed. “He can’t point to anything specific that was changed. “He didn’t say anything,” Stewart told host Chuck Todd of Cruz’s excuses for pulling his support. On Friday, Stewart made a video calling Cruz’s reasons for opposing the bill “inaccurate, not true, bullshit!” (Cruz has said that Democrats are pulling a “budgetary trick” - a claim Stewart and the party deny.) Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Stewart continued his campaign to dunk on Cruz for his flimsy excuses for changing his mind about the bill.Ī Message to and from Mister Senator Ted Cruz…Attorney at Law #PassthePactact /QjGRGdPmq4 Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) for the senators’ newfound opposition to the bill that they both voted for in June. Jon Stewart is on a mission to pass the PACT Act, legislation that would expand healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins that are commonly found in burn pits, and he’s been relentlessly trolling Sens.
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