Veterans- and first- responder advocate Jon Stewart blasted Senate Republicans for blocking a bill to extend VA health benefits to veterans suffering ailments from exposure to toxic substances (the PACT Act). Moscow Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republican hypocrites blocked the bill in a fit of pique after a breakthrough deal on President Biden's "Inflation Reduction Act" legislation was announced by Democrats following passage of the semiconductor bill. (Republicans are also threatening to block the same sex marriage bill because, well, President Biden and the Democrats actually moved a major health care and climate bill forward. Imagine that.) Here's Stewart calling out the whinging, two- legged rats:
