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On the recordFebruary 20, 2025
this amendment very simply seeks to protect full funding for the PACT Act. All of us--or most of us--voted for it. It was bipartisan. It was one of the most significant expansions of healthcare and benefits for toxic-exposed veterans in the VA's history. Now it is threatened because the Trump administration is aggressively attempting to decimate the VA workforce. It has imposed a freeze, and it is cutting men and women employees who are integral to fulfilling our promise under the PACT Act. We should be proud of it. We should preserve it. And if President Trump has no plans to erode the PACT Act, voting for this amendment should be easy for my Republican colleagues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kansas.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut
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Feb 20, 2025

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