"I’m used to the hypocrisy," Stewart announced throughout a press conference in Washington D.C., Thursday, where he was flanked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Jon Tester, D-Mont. "I'm used to all of it, but I am not used to the cruelty."
The Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, (PACT) failed on Wednesday to the get 60 votes it required to advance in the Senate. The measure had appeared to be headed for bipartisan backing, yet Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., urged party members to vote against it on claims that the bill had a provision that he announced would open $400 billion in spending supposed to be "unrelated to veterans' care."
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Eight Republicans voted with Democrats to advance the bill, leading to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., casting a procedural "no" vote in a move to bring the bill back for additional consideration, reports Deadline.
The new version of the bill reclassified the $400 billion in Veterans Administration funding, changing it from discretionary spending to mandatory spending.
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Stewart further stressed that veterans who traveled to the country's capital to celebrate the passage of the bill were being put on hold again by the Republicans who voted against it.
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He further called out many politicians, including Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who had announced he was "honored to join @the_uso today and make care packages for our brave military members in gratitude of their sacrifice and service to our nation," and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and blamed him for lying to veterans he'd met with.
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"The gut punch that's much more devastating is that these people all came down here so that they could finally tell the men," Stewart said. "Their constituents are dying.”
"Ain't this a b****h?" Stewart announced. "America's heroes who fought in our wars are outside, sweating their a**es off with oxygen, battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherf*****s sit in the air conditioning, walled off from any of it. They don't have to see it. They don't have to understand that these are human beings. These are men and women, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers that we just let stand outside in the heat when they can't breathe."
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Tester also lit into Toomey, stating the GOP lawmaker has an issue with spending money on the country's veterans.
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