“It’s our job to provide those vets and their survivors with benefits and care for those conditions and if passed, the PACT Act will finally do that,” McDonough said. “This is a monumental moment for veterans and a monumental moment for our partnership as well.”

“Senator Toomey has blocked it. And now he wants to introduce amendments completely rewriting the way that it’s paid for out of some false and very convenient fiscal concern that he never had for the defense budget or for the wars that created these toxic exposure difficulties in the first place,” comedian and activist Jon Stewart said in an interview with Fox News.