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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4577306" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-veterans-choice-paula-reid/index.html" target="_blank">Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he&#039;s told more than 150 times</a>&quot;.....former President Barack Obama <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/08/07/president-obama-signs-bill-give-va-resources-it-needs" target="_blank">signed</a> the Choice program into law in 2014. The law, which allowed eligible veterans to be covered by the government for care provided by doctors outside the VA system, was a <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bernie-sanders-john-mccain-va-deal-107491" target="_blank">bipartisan initiative</a> spearheaded by two senators Trump has repeatedly criticized, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona.What Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-va-mission-act-2018/" target="_blank">signed</a> was a 2018 law, the VA MISSION Act, that modified and expanded the eligibility <a href="https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5264#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Veterans,Choice%20Program%20and%20establishes%20a" target="_blank">criteria</a> from the Choice program. Rather than tout that bill, Trump has claimed over and over that he created Veterans Choice itself -- after others had failed for <a href="https://factba.se/search#veterans%2Bchoice%2B50%2Byears" target="_blank">&quot;50 years.&quot;</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4577306, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-veterans-choice-paula-reid/index.html']Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he's told more than 150 times[/URL] ".....former President Barack Obama [URL='https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/08/07/president-obama-signs-bill-give-va-resources-it-needs']signed[/URL] the Choice program into law in 2014. The law, which allowed eligible veterans to be covered by the government for care provided by doctors outside the VA system, was a [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bernie-sanders-john-mccain-va-deal-107491']bipartisan initiative[/URL] spearheaded by two senators Trump has repeatedly criticized, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the late John McCain of Arizona. What Trump [URL='https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-va-mission-act-2018/']signed[/URL] was a 2018 law, the VA MISSION Act, that modified and expanded the eligibility [URL='https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5264#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Veterans,Choice%20Program%20and%20establishes%20a']criteria[/URL] from the Choice program. Rather than tout that bill, Trump has claimed over and over that he created Veterans Choice itself -- after others had failed for [URL='https://factba.se/search#veterans%2Bchoice%2B50%2Byears']"50 years."[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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