Hegseth boosts veteran benefits bill that key Republicans have opposed 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a uncommon boost past week to a bipartisan measure that cardinal Republicans, including the seat of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), person opposed implicit outgo concerns.  The legislation, named aft a U.S. Army combat engineer, diagnosed with crab owed to toxic pain pit exposure, would supply astir 54,000 combat-injured…