What just happened?

Dems love to discipline veterans and reward non-citizens.

Thank you @timburchett for the update. We appreciate you so much. Keep the Faith. We are with you. 🇺🇸

@CunneffS Why would Dems block helping our veterans? Oh. Silly me.

Tim, i realize this is not your fault, but the TCAVA does NOT include the original Major Richard Star Act, it includes a modified version that caps benefits, and also cuts $57 billion dollars from future injured veterans disability compensation to fund other parts of the bill. It’s a crap bill. And I say this as a chapter 61 medically retired veteran that will benefit from the TCAVA. Its a political game that was drafted to move money around to make it look like the government was doing something, while actually accomplishing an overall net loss to disabled veterans compensation

Let’s be truthful about the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act. Saying it would double pay for combat-injured veterans across the board is misleading. For those of us medically retired before 20 years of service, the bill caps the military retired pay we can receive alongside VA disability compensation at the equivalent of a 20-year retirement. For some of us with DoD disability ratings of 60% or higher, that could leave part of our earned retirement pay unpaid.

It is amazing how you cut benefits from certain veterans to pay for benefits to other veterans. Just a matter of time before our worthless congress cuts all benefits. Yet, we'll give BILLIONS to other countries.

Are they trying to slip in amnesty in the Farm bill?

@AwakenedOutlaw Why do medically retired not in combat veterans have their retirement offset? We didn’t choose to be injured.

@timburchett you are Truly the Last Person that I Trust in Our Evil Criminal Congress…I PRAY GOD BLESSES YOU GREATLY🙌🏻🤍🤍🤍🙌🏻

Thank you future Senator Burchett for supporting our veterans!

@gettingtrumpnow It certainly sounds like the most assbackwards monkeyfuckingafootball process we have come to expect from the the most useless gang of fucking jerkoffs in history.

If 25% of reps were as decent as you our country would be in great shape. Unfortunately you can’t trust many of them to look out for their constituents and communities. They have no problem sending our very hard earned money overseas or giving it to illegals!

@Hmmm999999999 Thank You @timburchett for all of your hard work & keeping us informed of what the heck is going on up there🤙🏼

Care to explain your bitch ass about this insanity?

@AwakenedOutlaw Why does the farm bill have ambesty for illegals slid ibto it?

God i pray this gets signed into law. It will make my life sooooo much easier. God bless yall for doing this. Most veterans day stuff i avoid because im stuck in my mind. And yes. A lot of GWOT veterans feel betrayed by our government. This is great news for us.

@thespicypatriot But they will walk thru hell to get everything for illegals.

God Bless you, Tim! You are so me of the very last straight shooters and upstanding members of Congress. We need 534 more of you.

These dems are truly the worst. Who blocks Vets from getting more benefits! So crazy. 🙌voice vote

@backflip2019 Yet the VA is still screwing over the Vietnam era veterans DRAFTED into a war they didn’t want.

You are taking this from future benefits!!!! Section 108 (Controversial Cuts): Proposes changes to disability rating criteria for service-connected sleep apnea and tinnitus (reducing future ratings/payments to offset costs). [1, 2]

@thespicypatriot I feel like Tim represents all of us. Thank you for keeping us informed 🇺🇸

Let's hope they continue to be confused.

Great news for our veterans

You don't know what you're doing. Or you are just a blatant, lying scumbag. Burchett's comment is smoke and mirrors. Democrats fully supported the Starr Act for a long time. This bill today was packed with a bunch of other provisions. If it passes the Senate, you may wish it didn't Sleep apnea: Changes the VA rating criteria for future claims. A veteran whose sleep apnea is successfully controlled by treatment such as CPAP could receive a 0% rating, whereas CPAP use can currently support a 50% rating. [ [ Tinnitus: Generally eliminates tinnitus as a standalone 10% compensable disability for future claims, subject to a limited hearing-loss exception. [ [ Future disability compensation: The changes generally apply to claims filed after enactment, so existing ratings are protected, but future veterans could receive substantially less compensation for the same conditions. [ [ Using benefit reductions to pay for benefit expansions: Opposing veterans groups objected particularly to using projected savings from these disability-rating changes as the funding offset for expanded benefits elsewhere in the bill, including the Major Richard Star Act. The tinnitus/sleep-apnea changes were projected to reduce disability compensation by roughly $57 billion over 10 years

I'll tell you what happened. The guy that you let off the hook yesterday, just embarrassed our military again on Veterans Day. cc @PeteHegseth

From my understanding they weren’t trying to stop the star act itself, they were trying to stop the cuts to other benefits

Here’s the part Burchett leaves out: Democrats weren’t blocking the Major Richard Star Act, 204 of them COSPONSORED it. That’s more Democratic cosponsors than Republican cosponsors, 204 to 135.

What happened is that Congress is a criminal organization and most of them need to be replaced and belong in prison

Dems spent years slow-walking the Star Act, then on Veterans Day they weren’t ready at the mic and it sailed through on voice vote. Our wounded warriors shouldn’t have to wait for the other side to stop playing games. Thank you @timburchett. 🇺🇸

Glad you guys decided to work for once. Most useless congress I’ve ever seen. Now you want to hurry up and work with a month left. You all Deserved this asswhooping

🫡🫡🫡….that’s awesome…they most definitely deserve it!!! 😜😜😜

Tim I will never vote for you again. I will do all I can to make sure never win again in the state of Tennessee. I'm truly saddened that you are okay steal from veterans.