Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, attacked Republican senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn for voting against the "Honoring Our PACT Act," which failed in a vote Friday night, but Cruz fired back that the bill, which was meant to compensate veterans who had been injured in burn pits, had been larded up with unrelated pork spending by Senate Democrats.
“There are few political moves that are as heinous, as egregious, as rage-inducing, as using servicemembers or veterans as political pawns. But that’s exactly what Senators Cruz and Cornyn did last night," wrote Hinojosa in a press release posted on the state party website.
“Ted Cruz and John Cornyn – the former of whom had time today to tweet memes, Fox News clips, and promote his podcast; the latter of whom had time to tweet or retweet dozens of unrelated posts since the vote – should immediately explain this shamelessly partisan vote to the hundreds of thousands of Texas veterans demanding answers."
For his part, senator Ted Cruz posted immediately after the vote, explaining that the $600 billion Senate bill had been settled with $400 billion in additional pork by Democrats, which Cruz characterized on Twitter as "a blank check.," and he felt he had to vote against it for that reason.
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