Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into Republicans as “stab-vets-in-the-back senators” on Thursday after they blocked the passage of a bill expanding health care coverage for military veterans, the HuffPost reports.

Said Stewart: “If this is America first, then America is fucked.”

“Republicans are furious at Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV),” the HuffPost reports.

“The West Virginia Democrat on Wednesday announced a surprise deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to revive much of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy agenda.”

Said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “It was obviously a double-cross by Joe Manchin. Just two weeks ago, he said he wasn’t going to support a bill like this.”

“Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), one of a handful of GOP senators working to garner support in her party for a bill to codify gay marriage, said the Democrats’ surprise embrace of a tax and climate change bill made her job much harder,” the HuffPost reports.

Said Collins: “I just think the timing could not have been worse and it came totally out of the blue.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Democrats behind closed doors this morning that passing the reconciliation bill “will require us to stick together and work long days and nights for the next 10 days,” ABC News reports.

He added: “It will be hard. But I believe we can get this done.”

Politico: “Rallying cries aside, passing the package by next week without a single GOP vote won’t be easy. Democrats are already diving into a behind-the-scenes scrub to ensure the bill complies with the special budget rules that allow them to evade a filibuster.”

Punchbowl News: “Schumer warned that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was trying to undermine the deal and urged Democrats to stay united in order to send a message to the Kentucky Republican.”

It does not appear that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) was at the morning meeting.