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Paul Ryan is a lying liar and now he is trying to clean up any evidence of it...

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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has scrubbed a document to remove a false statement about the budget deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Breitbart News has learned.

An original talking point in the document claimed the plan’s cuts to military pensions for wounded warriors, or service members who retired as a result of disability or injury, would not be affected.

The section of the original document, at the end of page two and top of page three, is titled: “Annual adjustment of retired pay and retainer pay amounts for retired members of the Armed Forces under age 62.”

“This provision modifies the annual cost-of-living adjustment for working-age military retirees by making the adjustments equal to inflation minus one percent,” the section reads in the original document, as obtained by Breitbart News. “This change would be gradually phased in, with no change for the current year, a 0.25 percent decrease in December 2014, and a 0.5 percent decrease in December 2015. This would not affect service members who retired because of disability or injury. Service members would never see a reduction in benefits from one year to the next.”

The key sentence in that paragraph is this claim: “This would not affect service members who retired because of disability or injury.”

In the document currently hosted on Ryan’s Budget Committee website, that claim has been scrubbed from that section in addition to other changes.

“This provision modifies the annual cost-of-living adjustment for working-age military retirees by making the adjustments equal to inflation minus one percent,” the current House Budget Committee document reads regarding military pensions. “This provision would go into effect in December 2015. At age 62, the retired pay would be adjusted as if the COLA had been the full CPI adjustment in all previous years, and the service members would receive the full COLA from then on. Service members would never see a reduction in benefits from one year to the next and it will save approximately $6 billion over ten years.”

Ryan’s committee removed the claim that wounded warriors’ pensions would not be affected by the cuts because the claim is not true, as the Washington Free Beacon documented.

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