rofl @ timmeh - the legal brains that advise the states and advise businesses will say ignore these executive orders as they are not legitimate.

Tim, Trump is losing. He is behind across the board.

^^^trump doesn't have the legal power to authorise spending, only congress can do that.

‘The Don’.

Very strange infatuation you have.

he leaves her colleagues to give her grief for her selfishness, for having deprived the rest of them of their chance

The chance to listen to more of his lies?

Some in the main stream media like to deliberately confuse the issue and the mugs believe them.

Trump was right to walk out when faced with disrespectful, simplistic and rude behavior by a biased member of the media.

Trump passed a Bill on the VA in 2018.


https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/06/trump-signs-55-billion-bill-replace-va-choice-program.html

President Donald Trump signed a landmark bill Wednesday to replace the troubled Veterans Choice Program and expand private health care options amid a fight between the White House and Congress over how to pay for it.

The bill, the VA Mission Act, would also expand caregivers assistance to the families of disabled veterans and order an inventory of the Department of Veterans Affairs' more than 1,100 facilities with a long-term view to trimming excess.

"This is a very big day," said Trump, who made veterans care one of the signature issues of his run for the White House. "All during the campaign, I'd say, 'Why can't they just go out and see a doctor instead of standing on line?'

"This is truly a historic moment, a historic time for our country," he continued, before signing the bill at a White House Rose Garden ceremony. "We're allowing our veterans to get access to the best medical care available, whether it's at the VA or at a private provider."

In his remarks, Trump did not mention that funds to pay for the bill have yet to be identified, or that the White House and Congress are at odds on funding mechanisms. The bill's projected costs over five years are also in dispute.

At a Senate news conference last month, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and a key sponsor of the bill, and Sen. Jon Tester, the ranking member of the committee, put the total costs at $55 billion, although other estimates have it at $52 billion.

Isakson acknowledged that the bill isn't paid for but said he is working with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to add funding for the bill that would likely balloon the deficit. The White House has argued for funding the bill by cutting other programs.

A White House memo obtained by The Washington Post said that simply adding funding is "anathema to responsible spending" and would lead to "virtually unlimited increases" in spending on private health care for veterans.

Shelby said Tuesday that going along with the White House would result in cuts of $10 billion a year to existing programs, including some at the VA.

"If we don't get on it, we're going to have a hole of $10 billion in our [appropriations]," said Shelby, who predicted "some real trouble" in reaching agreement, according to a Washington Post report.

Critics of the bill have warned that over-reliance on private-care options could lead to the "privatization" of VA health care, but Trump said, "If the VA can't meet the needs of the veteran in a timely manner, that veteran will have the right to go right outside to a private doctor. It's so simple and yet so complicated."

In his remarks at the ceremony of less than 20 minutes, Trump also noted that it was the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy when U.S. troops "stormed into hell."

"They put everything on the line for us," he said and, like all veterans, "when they come home, we must do everything that we can possibly do for them, and that's what we're doing."

The issue of funding has plagued the existing Veterans Choice Program since it was enacted in response to the wait-times scandals of 2014 in which VA officials were caught doctoring records to show better performance.

The Choice program allowed veterans who lived more than 40 miles from a VA facility or had to wait more than 30 days for an appointment to have access to private care, but the program was time limited and Congress has struggled to come up with money for extensions.

The program was again due to run out of funding May 31, but the VA said there was enough money remaining to keep it in operation until Trump signed the VA Mission Act.

The new bill called for $5.2 billion in funding to keep the existing Choice program in operation for a year while the VA worked through reforms to consolidate the seven private-care options into one system while eliminating the 30-day, 40-mile restrictions.

However, a Government Accountability Office report on the Veterans Choice Program released Monday cast doubt on the VA's ability to implement the reforms called for under the VA Mission Act.

The GAO said veterans could wait up to 70 days for private-care appointments under the Choice program because of poor communication between the VA and its facilities and "an insufficient number, mix, or geographic distribution of community providers."
Trump Touts Ridding VA of Corruption, Poor Performers

Ahead of the signing ceremony, the White House put out a statement citing Trump's accomplishments in his first 500 days in office. Veterans programs topped the list.

Trump "worked with Congress to forge an overwhelming bipartisan vote of support" for the VA Mission Act, the statement said. The vote in the House was 347-70; the Senate vote was 92-5.

The VA Mission Act and other veterans legislation will "bring more accountability to the Department of Veterans Affairs and provide our veterans with more choice in the care they receive," the White House statement said.

In his remarks, Trump hailed passage of the VA Accountability Act, which is aimed at getting rid of poor performers, and lashed out at civil service unions for opposing reform.

"Four years ago, our entire nation was shocked and outraged by stories of the VA system plagued by neglect, abuse, fraud and mistreatment of our veterans," he said in a reference to the wait-times scandals.

"And there was nothing they could do about it. Good people that worked there, they couldn't take care of the bad people -- meaning 'You're fired, get the hell out of here,' " Trump said.

More accountability "made so much sense but it was hard," he said. "You have civil service, you have unions. Of course, they'd never do anything to stop anything, but they had a very great deal of power.

"So we passed something that hasn't been that recognized, and yet I would put it almost in the class with Choice. Almost in the class with Choice. VA Accountability -- passed. And now, if people don't do a great job, they can't work with our vets anymore. They're gone," Trump said.

The VA has more than 360,000 employees serving the health care needs of about nine million veterans annually. Most of them are represented by the American Federation of Government Employees, which opposed the VA Mission Act.

The AFGE said that the act amounts to "opening the door to privatization of the country's largest health care system."

The major veterans service organizations (VSOs) also initially feared privatization but came round to backing the VA Mission Act as a catalyst for improving care while preserving the VA's role as the main provider of health care.

In a statement after the signing ceremony, Keith Harman, national commander of the 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars, said, "The VFW and other veterans service organizations worked closely with Congress and the White House to help create a carefully negotiated bipartisan deal with the fingerprints of veterans who rely on the VA all over it."
Bill Also Addresses Caregivers, Excess VA Facilities

In addition to expanding private-care options, the bill would also address long-time concerns of the VSOs on the restrictions in the current program to provide small stipends to family members who care for severely disabled veterans.

The program has been limited to post-9/11 veterans, but the bill was aimed at expanding caregivers assistance over two years to veterans of all eras.

Advocates had argued that caregivers assistance saves the VA money by allowing disabled veterans to remain at home rather than relying on more expensive in-patient treatment.

"The more veterans and their caregivers who are eligible for support, the closer we are to fulfilling our promise to care for those who've sacrificed so much on our behalf," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, a chief sponsor, said in a statement.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that more than 41,000 caregivers could be added to the rolls under the new bill over the next five years at a cost of nearly $7 billion.

In reference to the caregivers section of the bill, Trump said, "If you wore that uniform, if at some point you work that uniform, you deserve the absolute best and that's what we're doing."

In a statement, Delphine Metcalf-Foster, national commander of the Disabled American Veterans and herself a former caregiver to her late husband, said in a statement:

"This new law will not only extend support to thousands more deserving family caregivers that severely injured veterans rely on, but also make a number of reforms and improvements to strengthen the VA health care system and improve veterans' access to care."

The bill also ordered up a VA asset review in which the president would set up a nine-member Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission, with representatives from VSOs, the health care industry, and federal facility managers.

Opponents have likened the commission to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) at the Pentagon on the hot-button issue of base closings.

The panel would meet in 2022 and 2023 to issue recommendations on "the modernization or realignment of Veterans Health Administration facilities."

At a Senate news conference last month, Carlos Fuentes, the VFW's National Legislative Services director, said comparing AIR to BRAC is misleading.

"Under BRAC, DoD moves its assets, including service members and their families. VA can't force veterans to move," Fuentes said.

At a panel discussion last month in the House, Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tennessee, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said that the average age of a building at the VA is more than 50 years.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/06/trump-signs-55-billion-bill-replace-va-choice-program.html
He said the VA has more than 6,000 buildings in its inventory, and about 1,100 "are not even utilized. So we're paying millions of dollars to keep up empty buildings -- makes no sense."

Trump needs to somehow get some of Bidens currently committed voters to vote for him instead. He is not going to do that by walking out of a live press conference after being caught telling a blatant lie as he did there.

Details here...

https://missionact.va.gov/

Come on Dave, keep up fella, you need to do some deep deep deep research, otherwise the scientist will bat you away with deep deep deep statistics of irrelevance  .......

Tim, how much have you bet on Trump?

If that's your best bets, I wouldn't like to see your worst ones

timmeh thinks that trump committing crimes, as he has done all his life, while screaming "law and order" makes him a hero figure.

As long as most of the £4 matched on Kamala is yours, eh Tim?

dave1357 09 Aug 20 16:26 
Which is illegal

Really? Tell that to The Wall, tell that to voters who chuck`n`nance refused to help. Better yet, take The Don to court, reveal the black hole inside dems, where a soul should be

politicspunter 09 Aug 20 16:23 
If that's your best bets, I wouldn't like to see your worst ones

Well, please tell me where I`m going wrong? I`ve only seen you post once about actually having a bet, Pence for POTUS at 80/1; was my mistake in backing him at 300, just yesterday, yet he`s back to 180 now? Or was my mistake backing Whitmer at up to 38 when, despite yesterday trying to claim credit for `tipping` her, you hadn`t actually backed her yourself? Are these good examples of my failures?

As regards small amounts being matched at some of those best prices, well, I can`t dictate how much of my bets get matched, but even those small amounts were better than anything you`ve achieved!

I`m only playing six markets, with probably the best part of 20k in backs but, as primarily a layer, the biggest (so far!) are dem nom lays of Klobuchar totaling £126k, £80k michelle, £38k hilary, and numerous more in five-figures.

If you doubt those figures, screenshots are available on request; ask on here, though, don`t pm me, as I use `classic`, will never see any pm notifications. Meanwhile, looking forward to as much advice you can help me with.

16 years on here, 16 winning years out of 16; maybe you could use some leftie ju-jitsu to make it 17 out of 16?

politicspunter 09 Aug 20 17:25 
Lol Tim, you think I advised backing Gretchen Whitmer but didn't back her myself?

I think you`ve posted many `tips`, without backing them yourself, in the hope that, if they shortened, you could come on here and claim you`d `tipped` them. As, indeed, you did with Whitmer yesterday. When you were asked what price you`d backed her at you, who are normally so quick to respond, ignored the question. So you did back her when you posted the `tip`? At what price?

Yes, of course sometimes only bits of bets are matched, but my biggest back is of Joe; £2,543 for dem nom at up to 20.0,

At least Tim is talking about betting for a change, but even on this topic what he posts is fake news.