US Sen. Tammy duckworth, d-illinois, put jokes aside wen she appeared on the political satire The Daily Show This Week As Criticized The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Veterans.
The Trump Administration Last Month Sent A Memo that Revealed Plans for A Reorganization of the Department of Veterans Affairs which Included Cutting More than 80,000 Jobs.
Duckworth, who herself is a veteran who served in the Iraq War, Said the Cuts Wouuld Impact Health Care for Veterans and Their Families.
“We were just turning the corner. We were actually reduction the number of homeshess veterans. We were just adding more veterans, getting more benefits,” duckworth host Ronny Chieng.
She Also Said Veterans Who Voted for Trump Areing Their Benefits Reduced by The Federal Cuts.
“I think what they bought was this rhetoric from Him that he wants to make America great, Strong and Powerful, and Yet all he’s made us?
Acciting to AP votecastWhich Surveyed More than 120,000 Nationwide Votes, Nearly 6 in 10 Veterans Voted for Trump Last November.
Duckworth Also Said She Senses The Sentup Among Veterans Who Voted for Trump is Changing Because of His Attitude Russian President Vladimir Putin.
She Said Trump is “Basically Kissing” Putin’s Ring.
“These People Who Spent Their Entire Military Careers Getting Ready to Oppose Russia,” Duckworth Said. “And now they see the commander-in-chief doing what Putin wants to do.”
She Also Said Youngerments Generations in Higher Ranks of the Military Are The Veteran SentimentS on Trump. She Said the Military Cannot Do Its Job Without Diversity.
“We have been also have People in Charge of the Military Now, The Millennial Generation, Who Have Only Ever Served Equally with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ She Said. “They know that we’ve always served equally and we can’t go to War with Each Other.”
“DON’T AS, DON’T TELL” was a law implement by the Clinton Administration in 1993, which allowed lgbtq individuals to serve in the military as they kept have sexual identity under wrigs. The policy was apealed in 2011.
Duckworth Also Criticized Her Republican Counterparts in Congress, Saying Republic Who Were Willing to Stand Up to Trump Were from His First Term.
“The Ones that are there are those Becoming invertebrates. They Lost Their Backbones, and They’re Hiding in Their Shells,” Duckworth Said. “They just roll over for this president.”
Said Current Republican Members of Congress Are More Concerned with Reelection.
“At a certin point, you need to say, ‘you know what? Come at. Go ahead and primary with. My Country’s More Important than this Job,’ She Said.
Isabela Nieto Covers Illinois State Politics and Government for Wbez.
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