Tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has unveiled a plan for cutting $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing Veterans Affairs Department health care spending and cutting veterans’ disability benefits.
Her proposed VA budget cuts would account for $4.5 billion of the savings included in the plan, posted on her official House of Representatives website.
Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, said cutting veterans’ health care spending is an ill-advised move at a time when the number of veterans continues to grow as troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Sullivan said he finds it difficult to see how VA could freeze health care costs without hurting veterans.
“It is really astonishing to see this,” he said.
If Paul Sullivan had been reading Dump Bachmann, he wouldn't be astonished.
DB reader "Lady" comments:
HRM MB has apparently unveiled a plan to balance the budget...it includes cutting Veteran's benefits. Apparently Veterans are useful only when a photo op comes along during a campaign.
No mention of cutting her own benefits?:
Bachmann is shameless in exploiting veterans to get elected:
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