After Jon Stewart’s impassioned rebuke of GOP senators for withdrawing their support for a bill that would provide extended medical benefits for military veterans, he laid into Ted Cruz on Friday for presenting the bill as a “Democratic budgetary trick.”
Cruz shared his thoughts with TMZ in a video posted Friday that he and his fellow GOP members were in favor of the PACT Act… until the spending was deemed “discretionary”Instead of “mandatory.”
A ticked-off Stewart shared the TMZ video to Twitter, adding his own video response in which he called Cruz’s interpretation, “inaccurate, not true, total bulls—.”
Cruz’s description of it “part of the out of control spending from the left,”Stewart stated that “no trick.”
The former “Daily Show” host explained: “Everything in the government is either mandatory or discretionary spending, depending on which bucket they feel like putting it in. The whole place is basically a f—ing shell game. And he’s pretending that this is some new thing that the Democrats stuck into the bill and snuck it past one Ted Cruz. It’s no gimmick. It’s been there the whole f—ing time.”
He also insists that “not one word”Since the House approved the bill with 84 votes to 14, on June 16, it had been amended.
“There is nothing in the bill that is not related to veteran spending,”He said it in the video and added, “Don’t take my word for it. Any a**hole on an iPhone can read it. It’s at congress.gov. This is for veterans who suffered health effects from being exposed to burn pits and other toxins. That is it.”
Stewart shared his thoughts with Jake Tapper on Thursday at CNN “The hypocrisy is so galling, but then you get to the place where I’m at right now where it’s, ‘How do you shame the shameless?’”He spoke out about the decision to deny veterans the extended medical coverage that the PACT Act provides.
