and it got him an angry personalized letter from eight of the country s leading veterans organizations. well, now heads up. now the trump administration s v.a. is now the with this brand new vaguely worded health care proposal called the veterans consolidated access & rewarding experiences act. it s code for privatizing and voucherizing veterans health care. this has just arisen and just been proposed. veterans organizations have not come out in full force to say whether or not they agree with this. but the veterans committee will review this next tuesday and we expect veterans will be on hand to testify. if you ve been like me watching
proposed private advertiizing tn his run for the presidency. now heads up. now the donald trumptrump admin va came out with this vaguely worded health care proposal, they re calling it the veteran s health care rewarding experience act. it represents the quarter million va employees, they say this is basically euphemistic code for privatizing the va, they call it a total dismantling of the va, it s voucherizing veterans health care. now this is just arizin. this has just been proposed by the va, veterans groups have not come out in full force to say whether or not they agree with this. but the veterans committee in the house will hold a hearing,
slashing investments in critical things like education and job training and manufacturing that are so important to the growth of our economy. and at the same time make sure that medicare as we know it would end by voucherizing it as well. so unfortunately they don t have new ideas for how to help the middle class. the president has been doing exactly what he needs to to create a middle class economics. we hope that republicans going forward will work with us on that. shaun, the president has been going on offense in terms of his budget with these numbers, including $75 billion. that s the desired increase in spending. where is the white house willing to give? well what s critical for americans to know not only do we make those investments in the middle class, at the same time it is fully paid for, in fact our budget would save $1.8 trillion over ten years and it
trophies. you don t want to take entitlements. we don t want to sit at a table that says there s no place for social security in a civilized stoet. society. this isn t just the odd person out in their caucus. and by the way, by the way, the voucherizing of the medicare is in the ryan budget. medicare should wither on the vine. that is in the ryan budget. president washington said as he was leaving, he cautioned political parties at war with their own government. let me introduce you to the republican caucus in the house of representatives. not all of them, as you say, don t paint them all with the same brush, but enough of them to wag the dog.
that we re going to take these revenues from taxes on the wealthiest americans that came about as a result of the year-end deal, even though paul ryan and the republicans in the house fought against that revenue increase every step of the way, which is why the supercommittee didn t reach agreement and why we ended up with the sequestration process after one year of getting know where so when you look at their plan for fixing medicare by voucherizing it and cutting dramatically the benefits to people who rely on medicaid, it s an unworkable solution and that s why we have to talk about real, practical fixes, including focusing on run away health care spending and how we get that under control by being looking at the behavioral economics that is at the root of health care costs. well, let s look at the other side. we know you re running for senate to replace a retiring tom harkin. right.