Love that Rep Mike Fitzpatrick steals Obama’s terminology and calls shifting the burden to illegals, “common sense reforms”.
Via WFB:
A bill introduced on Thursday in the House of Representatives would remove pension cuts to military retirees in the budget agreement passed this week and offset the fiscal difference by closing of a loophole that allows illegal immigrants to receive tax credits.
Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) and Martha Roby (R., Ala.) introduced H.R. 3788 to replace a controversial provision in the bipartisan budget deal that hits military retirees with a 1 percent decrease in their annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) but left civilian federal retirees untouched.
Disabled military retirees are not exempt from the cuts that could cost servicemembers as much as $124,000 over the course of their retirement.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) attempted on Tuesday to stop the cuts by offering an amendment to close the loophole in the Refundable Child Tax Credit, which the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) says provides incentives for aliens to enter the country illegally. Senate Democrats blocked the amendment.
“This nation desperately needs a return to fiscal normalcy and bipartisan cooperation. While the Bipartisan Budget Act is a step in that direction, it does so partly on the backs of our brave military veterans,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement. “What I’ve done is introduce a bill to remove that burden from our military retirees and replace it with common sense reforms to the Child Tax Credit program.”