brass, famous and otherwise with behavior problems and criminal problems and other problems is stunning reporting and very dismaying. in the most recent bipartisan budget that was approved by congress, the patty murray/paul ryan spending bill, political surprise when veterans got the short end of the stick. cuts to retirement pay and even to survivor benefits. part of the cuts have been reversed. part of them have not. we tend of the think of veterans as a political group with enough capital to never get the short end of the stick. but recent evidence is making it look like right now at least that s not the case. veterans are not getting what they re asking for and in some cases they re not getting what they have been promised. ahead of tomorrow s state of the union, pressuring in particular hard for today s young veterans and service members to get specific commitments from the president and congress at the time that the president and congress appear willing to break those commitments
nuclear weapons forces. they put the array on top level brass, famous and other wise with behavior problems and criminal problems and other problems is stunning reporting and very dismaying. in the most recent, hfs a political surprise when veterans got the short end of the stick. cuts to retirement pay and even to survivor benefits. part of the cuts have been reversed. part of them have not. we tend of the think of veterans as a political group with enough capital to never get the short end of the stick. but recent evidence is making it look like right now at least that s not the case. veterans are not getting what they re asking for and in some cases they re not getting what they have been promised. ahead of tomorrow s state of the union, pressuring in particular hard for today s young veterans
brass, famous and otherwise with behavior problems and criminal problems and other problems is stunning reporting and very dismaying. in the most recent bipartisan budget that was approved by congress, the patty murray/paul ryan spending bill, political surprise when veterans got the short end of the stick. cuts to retirement pay and even to survivor benefits. part of the cuts have been reversed. part of them have not. we tend of the think of veterans as a political group with enough capital to never get the short end of the stick. but recent evidence is making it look like right now at least that s not the case. veterans are not getting what they re asking for and in some cases they re not getting what they have been promised. ahead of tomorrow s state of the union, pressuring in particular hard for today s young veterans and service members to get specific commitments from the president and congress at the time that the president and congress appear willing to break those commitments
things ranging from war to airports. the measure flushes out the details of the budget deal passed last month. and it eases some of the spending cuts. they are set to vote on the final approval next week. they blast congress for making drastic pension cuts to military retirees. the move could cost service members more than 100,000 dollars each in lost retirement pay. it is part of a $1.1 trillion house omnibus bill passed on wednesday. whole new level of bipartisan it will cut the retirement benefits forearm me staff sergeant, sergeant first class by 20 percent. if you are retired e 7 coming out of the army you will see an 85,000 dollar increase of retirement benefits. they are balancing the budgets
the reason you are in trouble is not because you didn t agree, but because we did. the story is we don t get along. i would dispute that. we would get along fine with the status quo with the government being ineffective and inefficient. it raises spending and taxes and denies what we promised the american people and everyone said my goodness, how great. other republicans are angry over the plan s cuts to military pensions. paul ryan is defending the deal saying retirement pay can t weigh down the budget. he is promising to roll back cuts for those who are medically you have to stop. we all know how much you say nice things about paul ryan. i have been friends with paul for a long time. i would respectfully request that sounds like a guy who