Fact Check: Are Senate Republicans Really 'Blocking' Healthcare for Veterans?

ou've likely heard something about those nasty, awful Senate Republicans blocking a veterans' healthcare bill.  Comedian, activist, and under-informed scold Jon Stewart has been screaming about it to anyone who will listen -- and Democrats are indignantly attacking the GOP over it, generating dutifully partisan news coverage.  The tendentious, one-sided, lacking-in-context story goes like this: There's a bipartisan bill to fund needed care for US military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in war zones, but out of a sudden fit of pique and partisan pettiness, Republicans have decided to obstruct the funding.  The resulting outcry entails the familiar claim that the GOP has 'blood on its hands,' which is how basically all of their stances are assailed by all the usual suspects.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/...nLQZ_4l4HI

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