Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the VA this month ...
"Critics aren't buying it. The progressive veterans advocacy group VoteVets called the planned cuts 'outrageous,' adding, 'It is abundantly clear that Republicans and the Trump administration want to strangle the VA until it all gets privatized.'" www.ms.now/rachel-maddo ...
-- MS NOW (@ms.now) Dec 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The sinister Trumpf also wants to cut VA benefits, seen by Republicans as a "welfare program," alleging that former Soldiers are "cheating the system."
Nearly seven million American veterans receive VA payments for service-related physical or mental health conditions that left them partially or totally impaired; among them are 1.3 million men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In FY2025, their total compensation and pensions was $195 billion.
Link: Trumpf to Cut VA Benefits
David Lapan, who left his senior position at the VA says Dummkopf Trumpf's tough-talk campaign pitch to veterans has curdled into something far more self-centered.
"The messaging before was a means to an end to get elected, but once elected, that can all fall by the wayside," he said. And the people who believed him, Lapan argues, are the ones getting squeezed.
Many of the same veterans who cheered Trumpf's stump speeches "relied on the food stamps he had fought against funding now that he was back in office," he noted.
"Now that he's in office, the mask comes off and it's all about taking care of himself and fellow billionaires and millionaires," said Lapan, a retired USMC Colonel and longtime national-security spokesman. "[Trumpf] is an elitist."
VA Secretary Douglas Allen Collins is a Christian Chaplain (Colonel) in the US Air Force Reserve (USAFR).
