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Sanders Furious Over Proposal to Slash Benefits for Disabled Veterans

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Senator Bernie Sanders is furious over a proposal to slash benefits for disabled veterans.

The proposal was put on the table by Republican House Speaker John Boehner.

He wants to combine massive cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid with new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

The Boehner plan calls for a new method to calculate inflation that would reduce annual cost-of-living adjustments for social security recipients and disabled veterans.

Sanders says deficits must be reined in, but not by taking benefits away from more than 3 million disabled veterans.

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