U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz helped the Senate pass a bill providing care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Last week, he drew criticism after voting to delay the bill's passage and fist bumping another senator who voted to delay.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen.voted to advance federal legislation expanding health care protections for certain military veterans after fierce criticism for voting to delay its passage last week.
“While I ultimately supported the bill, because we need to take care of our veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep us safe, I’m disappointed that we couldn’t come together to fix the Democrat-created budget gimmick that will allow Congress to subsequently spend another $400 billion in pork, on top of and completely unrelated to the laudable funding in this bill for veterans harmed by burn pits,” Cruz said in a statement after Tuesday’s vote.
“No veteran who has sacrificed for our country should ever have to resort to spending the night on the Capitol steps to secure their benefits, but sadly in this case they have,” Schumer said from the Senate floor Monday. “It is unfortunate that our Republican colleagues chose to block quick passage of this bill last week, even though this is the exact same piece of legislation many of them supported in June, with one small technical fix.
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