Welcome back to the washington journal this morning. An hour next hour, we are talking about the Biden Administrations military and veterans policy. We are joined this morning by tyler and mary. Mary, i will begin with you. What is your group, what are your goals, and i will have you that answer the same question, tyler. We are a progressive Veterans Organization founded in 2006 by veterans of the iraq war. We now have over 1. 5 million veterans and military supporters. We work to advocate for progressive policies that benefit u. S. National security. Host give me some examples. We are strongly supportive of President Bidens authorization to end the war in afghanistan and it repeal the use of force in iraq, which has been used to authorize wars in far too many countries. We are strongly supportive of strong u. S. Support for ukraine and our nato allies. Host tyler, same question to you and how do you differ from this Progressive Group . Should think it thanks for having me on. Concern
Host welcome back, the next hour we are talking about the Biden Administration military and veterans policy. We are joined by Tyler Koteskey, policy director for concerned veterans for america and Mary Kaszynski with vote vet. What is your group and what are your goals . Guest it is a progressive veterans organization, founded in 2006 by veterans of the iraq war. We have a network of over 1. 5 million veterans, military families and supporters. We work to advocate for progressive veterans policy and policies that benefit u. S. National security. We supported President Bidens decision to end the war in afghanistan, repeal the authorization for use of force in iraq, which has been used to authorize wars in far too many countries, strongly supported strong u. S. Support for ukraine and nato allies. Host the same question to you and how do you differ from this Progressive Group . Guest thanks for having me on. Concerned veterans for america is a National Grassroots Advocacy Organization of
Post. , there has been a lot of weird climate events over the last couple of months and beyond. You have asked, not only just recently, but for the last couple of years, for President Biden to declare a Climate Emergency. What do you mean by that . What would you like to see . Quick certainly the impact of the summer has been very clear. July 4, the hottest day in human history. The last nine years, the hottest nine years in human history. And we see all sorts of other impacts in terms of trauma and loss of snowpack and stronger storms. So when you look at that collective impact, this is a global emergency, its the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Even before biden was inaugurated, i was arguing in that first speech to layout the challenge that the United States has to set the example and has to work in lead other countries there put less country in the outlets less carbon in the atmosphere. We have to have an example lead and help the world take this on. But instead, what we ha
Americans took out 5. 5 trillion of their excess savings, many people put in the bank after covid with all the government support, that is gone. We are going to leave this portion of washington journal. You can continue watching if you go to our website. In addition, there has been a lot of we are climate events over the last couple of months and beyond. So, you have asked not only recently, but for the last couple of years, for President Biden to declare a Climate Emergency. What do you mean by that . What would you like to see . Sen. Merkley well, certainly the impact of this summer has been very clear. July 4, the hottest day in human history. The last nine years, the hottest nine years in human history. And we see all sorts of other impacts in terms of drought, loss of snowpack, and stronger storms, and ocean acidification. When you look at their collective impact, this is a global emergency. It is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Even before biden was inaugurated i was
, there has been a lot of weird climate events over the last couple of months and beyond. You have asked, not only just recently, but for the last couple of years, for President Biden to declare a Climate Emergency. What do you mean by that . What would you like to see . Quick certainly the impact of the summer has been very clear. July 4, the hottest day in human history. The last nine years, the hottest nine years in human history. And we see all sorts of other impacts in terms of trauma and loss of snowpack and stronger storms. So when you look at that collective impact, this is a global emergency, its the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Even before biden was inaugurated, i was arguing in that first speech to layout the challenge that the United States has to set the example and has to work in lead other countries there put less country in the outlets less carbon in the atmosphere. We have to have an example lead and help the world take this on. But instead, what we have see