But you need money to pay for those benefits. And that's what appropriators do. We allocate the money. And in fact, it was interesting during the, this appropriations process, this time, Our counterparts on the other side of the aisle who were in the majority, actually tried to cut the money out of the pact act. And it was in our subcommittee where we made it known to all those veterans who thought they were going to get these benefits, that if the Republicans had passed … (04:37–04:46)
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