{"id":112,"date":"2026-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:31:06","slug":"the-new-veterans-bill-is-full-of-good-ideas-disabled-veterans-are-paying-for-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/the-new-veterans-bill-is-full-of-good-ideas-disabled-veterans-are-paying-for-all-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The new veterans bill is full of good ideas. Disabled veterans are paying for all of them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about veterans, because there&#8217;s a 554-page veterans bill moving through Congress right now, and most of what&#8217;s in it is good. The way it&#8217;s paid for is not &#8211; and they&#8217;re hoping you don&#8217;t read that far.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the Take Care of America&#8217;s Veterans Act &#8211; H.R. 9237. It bundles more than 60 bills into one package, and a lot of them are things veterans&#8217; groups have wanted for years. It lets the VA partner with rural hospitals so a veteran doesn&#8217;t drive two hours for an appointment. It makes overdose rescue medication free at VA pharmacies. It puts money into mental health care, caregivers, and the claims backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the trick.<\/p>\n<p>The bill primarily pays for it by cutting future disability payments for sleep apnea and tinnitus &#8211; up to $57 billion over 10 years, affecting up to 1.5 million current and future veterans. That&#8217;s by the bill&#8217;s own numbers. It&#8217;s not what the sponsors emphasize. It&#8217;s buried in the fine print of a bill literally named &#8220;Take Care of America&#8217;s Veterans,&#8221; and it&#8217;s moving fast.<\/p>\n<p>The way they wrote it is slick, too.<\/p>\n<p>When the VA approves a disability claim, it gives you a rating &#8211; a percentage that says how much your condition affects you, and that percentage sets the size of your monthly check.<\/p>\n<p>Tinnitus today is usually rated at 10%, which is worth about $180 a month. This bill lowers what those conditions can be rated going forward. Veterans already receiving benefits generally keep the ratings they have.<\/p>\n<p>So, the cuts fall mainly on future claims &#8211; meaning the next soldier who comes home with the same ringing ears gets a smaller rating, and a smaller check, than the veteran sitting next to him at the VA today. They aimed the cut at people who can&#8217;t complain yet, because those veterans haven&#8217;t come home yet. (Remember how I talked about this being the play for how they&#8217;ll defund Social Security?)<\/p>\n<p>Tinnitus is the ringing in your ears that never stops. It&#8217;s the most common service-connected disability in the country, because that&#8217;s what years around gunfire, jet engines, and diesel generators do to a person. Sleep apnea is also commonly service-connected. These aren&#8217;t loopholes. They&#8217;re the wear and tear of the job.<\/p>\n<p>Now, because we keep starting wars we don&#8217;t need to &#8211; VA disability spending has grown fast, and there are honest questions about how some conditions get rated. Wanting the program not to run out of money is a fair goal.<\/p>\n<p>But the math tells on them.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Pentagon budget hit $1 trillion &#8211; the largest in American history. This year&#8217;s request is $1.5 trillion, a $445 billion jump in a single year. That&#8217;s bigger than the Reagan buildup. A $445 billion raise for the Pentagon in one year, next to a $57 billion cut to disabled veterans spread over ten. That single year&#8217;s increase is nearly eight times the entire decade of veterans&#8217; cuts.<\/p>\n<p>They found the money for weapons without blinking, and they&#8217;re taking the offset out of the disability checks of people who already paid with their ears and their sleep.<\/p>\n<p>We fund what we value. If we can find $445 billion more for weapons in one year, we can afford veterans&#8217; services &#8211; all of them, no offsets, no fine print, no bill sent to the people who already served.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a freshman Representative can&#8217;t rewrite a fast-tracked bill. But every member gets a vote, and I&#8217;d use mine to strip the pay-for and fund the care straight. If that fails, I&#8217;d say what this is, out loud, every time &#8211; a veterans bill financed by future disabled veterans, passed by people who just gave the Pentagon the biggest raise in history.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sources<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/veterans\/2026-06-16\/62-bills-take-care-of-americas-veterans-act-21984426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here are the 62 bills in the Take Care of America&#8217;s Veterans Act (Stars and Stripes)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/9237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H.R. 9237 &#8211; Take Care of America&#8217;s Veterans Act (Congress.gov)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/va-benefits-update-new-bill-would-make-major-changes-to-veterans-care-12115065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Bill Would Make Major Changes to Veterans&#8217; Care (Newsweek)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-appropriations.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/republicans-advance-largest-pentagon-budget-history-while-cutting-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans Advance Largest Pentagon Budget in History (House Appropriations Committee)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/unpacking-15-trillion-fy-2027-defense-budget-topline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unpacking the $1.5 Trillion FY 2027 Defense Budget Topline (CSIS)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about veterans, because there&#8217;s a 554-page veterans bill moving through Congress right now, and most of what&#8217;s in it is good. 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