{"id":39764,"date":"2014-02-12T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39764"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:22:30","slug":"congress-votes-to-restore-cola-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39764","title":{"rendered":"Congress votes to restore COLA reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Congress voted to cut the cost of living allowance for disabled veterans, widows and military retirees. Yesterday they voted to restore those cuts. And since this shaping up to be a form of class warfare, they also voted to make up for that cut cut from Medicare in 2024. According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>; <\/p>\n

The fate of the repeal legislation is unclear at this point. House Republicans offset the impact on the deficit of restoring COLA by adding cuts to Medicare that would take effect in 2024. Democrats have come out against this aspect of the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are simply robbing one group of deserving people \u2013 Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security recipients \u2013 to pay for helping another group of deserving people, our military retirees. This is just a shell game, and it is irresponsible,\u201d Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure that the cut to Medicaid will never happen, since Congress has ten years to buy back the votes from Medicaid recipients, however, I don’t remember Adam Smith defending the cuts to veterans’ pensions last year. I don’t remember him saying that cuts to the pensions of the disabled and widows was irresponsible.<\/p>\n

Since the only bill in regards to the cut to veterans’ COLA that Harry Reid will allow for a vote, the Bernie Sanders bill, the one that adds more spending to the budget instead of less, you can bet that it will never make it to the president’s desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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