As I understand it, the funds were not earmarked for only helping vets, it's $400,000,000,000. That's a ton of money for sick vets or for whatever they want to spend it on. If they could just write a bill that does only what they claim, and the Republicans fight it, I'm on their side. If they are looking to dump a bunch of money on stuff that is completely unrelated under the guise of helping vets, I'm siding with the Republicans.
I'm just of the opinion they are doing the latter, because that's all Washington ever does.