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1. Republicans cut SNAP benefits for 170,000 low-income veterans.
Nothing says “support the troops” like taking away the only money they have to get an adequate meal! Yet that’s what Republicans did in 2013 when they voted to kick off thousands of veterans dependent on food stamps.
2. Senate Republicans blocked two bills that reform military sexual assault procedures.
3. Senate Republicans blocked an omnibus Veterans Care Package in 2014.
4. Senate Republicans blocked a Veterans healthcare bill in 2014.
5. Senate GOP filibustered the Veterans Job Act in 2012.
6. Due to their hatred for Planned Parenthood, Republicans killed the The Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act.
This bill was simple, and bipartisan: require the government to provide fertility treatments and family counseling for the “severely wounded, ill, or injured” military members or veterans.
7. Their words speak of their priorities:
With $17 trillion in debt and massive annual deficits, our country faces a fiscal crisis of unparalleled scope. Now is not the time, in any federal department, to spend money we don’t have [on veterans care]. – Sen. Richard Burr (NC)I feel strongly we’ve got to do the right thing for our veterans. But I don’t think we should create a blank check, an unlimited entitlement program, now. – Sen. Jeff Sessions
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