Lawmakers forget to work for the people, according to Jon Stewart.
Stewart told NBC New's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that they are insulated and isolated from the real people.
Government by the people, of the people, yes, but the clause they always seem to forget is for the people.
The PACT Act, a bill which would have expanded access to health care for veterans exposed to burn pits, has been championed by comedian and veterans advocate Stewart.
He gave an emotional speech to Congress in which he spoke about how he and 9/11 first responders knocked on doors to speak to lawmakers who didn't want to listen.
Stewart criticized Cruz over the healthcare bill. Several GOP lawmakers fist-bumped after the bill was blocked.
Cruz disagreed with Democrats by taking $400 billion in discretionary spending and shifting it to mandatory spending.
Stewart denied that there was a trick.
"Anything in the government is either mandatory or discretionary depending on which bucket they choose to put it in." Stewart said that the whole place is a shell game and that he is pretending that this is a new thing that the Democrats pulled out.
Stewart said that he could read and that he was not a big city Harvard educated lawyer. It has always been compulsory.
Stewart told Todd that he has seen the real people affected by these provisions.
For the last four years, I've been with them. I've watched them lose and win. Stewart has seen them die.
He said that he has seen veterans who died while fighting for this bill. Stewart said that while these veterans were "sick, utterly incapacitated by the injustices and illness that they've been dealing with," they decided to spend their "last precious times" fighting so that other veterans don't have to.
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