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From the coast guard in january after serving 4 1/2 years with the service. patterson's mother, a nurse, tells the associated press she had tried to get the v.a. to prescribe her son at van for depression and anxiety. his doctors gave him a different medication. she says those families, they are hurting because they wouldn't give my son his damn ativan. he had a mental break because they wouldn't listen to me. the v.a. says patient confidentiality prevents officials from commenting on his individual treatment. however, v.a. officials tell the a.p. they're horrified and saddened to hear about t...

Minutes ago, 15 minutes ago, sounds like a solid shot against house republicans. >> there is no constituency in this nation that's supporting -- that supports threatening to kill millions of jobs unless the v.a. is gutted except apparently extreme maga republicans, house republicans to be more specific. >> bill: your response on that. >> she was ok until she did the house republicans. there is no basis anywhere to not remember those men and women who have served and who we owe so much to, and the speaker's initiative, i voted for, does just that. we maintain levels that were extraordinary. adj...

By veterans. of course the v.a. has projected this bill would reduce its budget by 22%. take a look at what he told me. >> do you have any regrets about how the bill was written, considering we're hearing criticism from the v.a. >> can you tell me where in the bill it kutcuts the v.a.? it doesn't. it actually goes to the funding where we were four months ago. if you look at back to the obama, biden budget that they passed for the next ten years, this actually spends more than what they proposed at this time. and the work of congress gets to decide where spending is just like every family house...

And i don't see this issue -- making significant headway until we change the die dynamic. >> we deeply thank you for doing the lord's work cut under gop plans about 22% how do you fear that could potentially affect those who need such help? >> well first of all, i think it's important to look at the context, i understand there's 16 and a half million veterans in the united states and 65% of them are over the age of 55 and medium include of 47,000. so any talk of reducing benefits is going to worry them is going to scare them. but -- under the proposed gop plan, speaker mccarthy and the chairma...

Know a veteran reach out to them on a regular basis. suicide we can't point to any one thing and say this is why veterans are committed suicide so it is things namely financial stress unemployment, all manner of things. so the best way to prevent this is for community organizations and people that know veterans personally friends or family is to maintain that tight close connection, because that's really the only way that we're going you know overcome this issue. and that's why we advocate for the v.a. to put money into graduate funding for community organizations. again because they only serv...