House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was forced to pull a veterans bill from the House floor on Thursday after three GOP rebels sided with Democrats to amend the measure and block cuts to disability compensation for tinnitus and sleep apnea.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), and Max Miller (R-OH) joined Democrats trying to amend the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act to strike the cuts. Even if the cuts were successfully stripped from the bill, Veterans Affairs could still go through with them on the administrative side, as they are in the final stages of working out the cuts.

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