The previous 'Day by day Present' host was livid with the Senators who stopped the invoice that may provide extra healthcare to veterans who've been affected by burn pits.
Jon Stewart took to Twitter to voice his anger on the Senate for blocking the Honoring our Pact Act, which supplied well being help to veterans who had been affected by toxins from burn pits. The 59-year-old comic and TV host didn’t maintain again when calling out the Republican senators who blocked the invoice in a sequence of tweets on Wednesday, July 27. Specifically he pointed to Republican Senator Pat Toomey, who had voiced his causes for stopping the invoice on the Senate flooring. “You efficiently used the Byzantine Senate guidelines to maintain sick veterans struggling!” Jon wrote. “I’m certain you’ll have a good time by kicking a canine or punching a child…or no matter horrible individuals do for enjoyable!”
6 trillion for war- No tips or oversight…however for Veterans Healthcare?? Let’s play finances gimmick video games. We stay within the the other way up.
— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) July 27, 2022
Not considered one of these stab vets within the again Senators ought to get to go away for the Summer time til this shit is mounted. Not one.
— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) July 28, 2022
Whereas all Democrats and eight Republicans voted to cross the invoice, it didn’t meet the 60 votes wanted to cease the filibuster, in accordance with The Hill. Toomey defined his reasoning for opposing it as having extra spending than simply on the victims the invoice is designed to guard. “My concern about this invoice has nothing to do with the aim of the invoice,” he stated. “This budgetary gimmick is so unrelated to the precise veterans situation that has to do with burn pits, that it’s not even within the Home model of this invoice.”
Jon clearly took notice of Toomey calling it a “budgetary gimmick” and appeared to level towards the amount of cash that funds wars. “6 trillion for war- No tips or oversight…however for Veterans Healthcare?? Let’s play finances gimmick video games. We stay within the the other way up,” he wrote. He promised veterans that he’d proceed the combat, however he additionally had a robust message for the senators who blocked the invoice. “F–ok the R caucus and their empty promise to our veterans,” he wrote, earlier than providing a suggestion in one other strongly worded tweet. “Not considered one of these stab vets within the again Senators ought to get to go away for the Summer time til this s–t is mounted. Not one.”
After his Tweets, Jon additionally known as out Republicans in an interview with the Conservative outlet Newsmax, mentioning how the senators voted in favor of battle. “Each a type of senators that voted towards healthcare for veterans voted for the slush fund for the battle. They don’t help the troops. They help the battle machine,” he stated. “That’s bought to cease.”
The previous Day by day Present host has been a long-time advocate for veterans, and he has spoken out on burn pits and known as for justice for individuals who have been affected by them on his AppleTV+ present The Drawback. He tried to indicate the impact of burn pits on veterans within the first episode of the present in September.