Bernie Sanders Responds To The Trump Administration's Layoffs At The VA

[Rhiannon12866]

Senator Bernie Sanders calls out DOGE's cuts to the VA. - 03/24/2025.

[murielm99]

1. BS had his own problems at the VA.

[justaprogressive]

2. Really?

He began his term by calling in the major groups, such as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. “I said: ‘O.K., guys, what are the issues you are concerned with? How can we address them?’ ” he recalled.

Veterans advocates involved in those conversations said they were impressed.

“He’s just as you see him in the campaign,” said Garry Augustine, the executive director of Disabled American Veterans. “You sit down with him and he’ll lay it on the table and tells you what he’s thinking, and he wants to know what you are thinking.”

Not only was Mr. Sanders uncharacteristically approachable for a senator, they said, but in a time of mandatory budget cuts they found him willing to advocate expensive initiatives on their wish list, from restoring cuts to military pensions to expanding dental care and reproductive health options.

Mr. Sanders packaged the proposals into one 367-page “omnibus” bill, with an estimated cost of $21 billion over 10 years — a cost that would lead to its demise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/us/politics/faith-in-agency-clouded-bernie-sanderss-va-response.html

I remember this:

Trump takes credit for McCain-Sanders veterans bill signed by Obama: “One of my greatest honors”

literally Bernie's Bill!

[Uncle Joe]

3. Excellent!

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Thanks, Uncle Joe!