Lip service

The GOP led Senate passed a bill that would give the military new benefits. But it looks like they forgot to fund them:

The lack of committed budget dollars likely dooms, at least for this year, some of the more popular initiatives endorsed by the Senate, even as their inclusion in the bill raised expectations, particularly among reservists, survivors and a special group of disabled retirees.

Why would they do something like this? Because they can now say they voted for all these things. Of course, if they hadn't given away the funding for such things in the forms of tax cuts to the wealthy or tax breaks to the oil companies, some of these things might have actually come to fruition.