{"id":22215,"date":"2011-02-07T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22215"},"modified":"2011-02-07T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:04:59","slug":"bachmann-removes-cuts-to-vet-benefits-from-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22215","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann removes cuts to vet benefits from proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22017\">I wrote that Tea Party Congress woman, Michele Bachmann proposed cuts<\/a> to some veteran payments as part of her $400k budget proposal. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    \u2026Bachmann\u2026has unveiled a plan for cutting $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing Veterans Affairs Department health care spending and cutting veterans\u2019 disability benefits.<\/p>\n<p>    Her proposed VA budget cuts would account for $4.5 billion of the savings included in the plan, posted on her official House of Representatives website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bachmann.house.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=223583\">issued a statement dated Friday<\/a> that she&#8217;s backed off from those proposals;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One point on my discussion list was a $4.5 billion proposal that would affect payments made to our veterans. That discussion point has received a lot of attention and I have decided to remove it from consideration. The problem of government spending must be solved, but not on the backs of our nation\u2019s war heroes. I have always been a proud supporter of the United States military and I continue to stand with our veterans.  In the months ahead I look forward to working with our Veterans Service Organizations to ensure that we fulfill our commitments to those who sacrificed so much in their brave service for our country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good news, but there are others out there on both sides of the aisle who see veterans as easy targets for budget cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I wrote that Tea Party Congress woman, Michele Bachmann proposed cuts to some veteran &hellip; <a title=\"Bachmann removes cuts to vet benefits from proposal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22215\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachmann removes cuts to vet benefits from proposal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}