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Schrier was in Wenatchee for a Veterans Town Hall Wednesday, where she said the bill contains new language that she finds unreasonable.

Other side of the aisle, is a lot of spin. but i think it will come down to what the legislative text is. at the end of the day, i think the american people have to understand, we're at the brink of default, we don't have a deal yet, we don't know how many republican votes can be produced, and it's all because republicans said that they wanted to cut the deficit. and let's be clear that what they got from this was not that. they may have gotten other things. i'm not happy with some of the things i'm hearing about, but they are not cutting the deficit, and they are not cutting spending, because...

About the fact that they agreed to increase pentagon spending, number one. they've agreed to increase va spending, number two, and while there are some fiscal, you know, calculations that are being made about what non-defense discretionary spending is and that's a lot of mumbo jumbo, that's basic spending on things like health care, education, child care and all of the things you care about is what republicans want to cut and they even took back $10 billion from the irs that was supposed to go to taking on wealthy tax cheats in ord err to make regular americans pay for wealthy people to be abl...

Two GOP lawmakers say the House Speaker's proposed budget cuts won't touch federal spending on veterans.

Was in the middle of a tough reelection fight. >> defense bending his always been discretionary. va spending is discretionary. what is mandatory or things like social security in medicare. if you qualify for the entitlement you just get it no matter what the cost. what we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so it's all evaluated. >> wisconsin senator johnson doesn't just want social security and medicare to meet reef prove all every five years. he wanted to be discretionary funding that has to be approved every single year, which is, wow. now both senat...