Burn Pit Bill Creates Massive, Debt-Fueled Backdoor Expansion of the V.A. Health Care System

Expanding care to troops harmed by toxic burn pits has become an increasingly bipartisan cause.

Members of both parties have introduced a flurry of bills that would make it easier for veterans exposed to the fumes from overseas military bases' trash burning sites—where munitions, batteries, and medical waste were incinerated in open pits—to claim health benefits for a wide variety of conditions.