Apparently veterans are only good for photo-ops
The hits from the Republican shutdown just keep on coming:
About 3.8 million veterans will not receive disability compensation next month if the partial government shutdown continues into late October, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says. Some 315,000 veterans and 202,000 surviving spouses and dependents will see pension payments stopped. [...]
In all, more than $6 billion in payments would be halted with an extended shutdown.
Yesterday
we learned that the Republican shutdown is delaying death benefits to the families of those killed in Afghanistan, and now this. And the only thing needed to stop the madness is an up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives that Speaker of the House John Boehner refuses to allow because he's more concerned about supporting the tea party than he is about supporting the troops. What a coward.