It turns out that if you're going to cover another 3.5 million veterans nationwide who were exposed to burn pits and have ailments due to their burn pit exposure, that costs a lot of money. And There were a lot of people in Congress who didn't want to spend that money. They're more fiscally conservative. They want to spend on something else. There's a million reasons why people didn't want to spend that money. (18:04–18:11)
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Asserts that many in Congress opposed spending money on veterans exposed to burn pits due to fiscal conservatism.
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