Pat Toomey: Democrats tried to 'sneak' $400 billion funding into veterans' health care bill
on Thursday, calling out Toomey by name and saying Toomey's objections that part of the bill's funding could be put to unrelated uses were "utter nonsense.""This is the oldest trick in Washington. People take a sympathetic group of Americans...craft a bill to address their problems and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it," Toomey said.
"If his estimations are wrong about what we'll spend in any given year, that means that we may have to ration care for veterans," McDonough said.later Sunday, writing that McDonough "is either misinformed about my proposed amendment or willfully dishonest."on Sunday to respond to criticism of the bill by Sen. Ted Cruz , whose comments echoed Toomey's.
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