More VA Health Care Cuts Coming

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).

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-15 01:16 AM | Reply

Pedo 47 loathes the "suckers and losers" who served in the military.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-15 01:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yeah, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 seems to continue to affect the ability of the Government to govern.

Speaking of Project 2025, and it's success ...

Musk calls Doge only somewhat successful' and says he would not do it again
www.theguardian.com

... Elon Musk has said the aggressive federal job-cutting program he headed early in Donald Trump's second term, known as the "department of government efficiency" (Doge), was only "a little bit successful" and he would not lead the project again.

Musk said he wouldn't want to repeat the exercise, talking on the podcast hosted by Katie Miller, a rightwing personality with a rising profile who was a Doge adviser and who is married to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's hardline anti-immigration deputy chief of staff.

Asked whether Doge had achieved what he'd hoped, Musk said: "We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful." ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-15 01:39 AM | Reply

@#3

I understand an appropriate comment at this point might be along the lines of

~Damning with faint praise.~

But I may not be correct in that assessment.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-15 01:42 AM | Reply

Does anyone doubt that Musk downloaded all the US server data on all citizens to his own private HDs? That evil man needs to be investigated and imprisoned for violating us all

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-12-15 05:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Gargh! Stupid military veterans believed and voted for me! Argh! What suckers and losers they are! Bflargh!"

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-15 02:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When will the military figure out they are nothing more than props for the GOP?

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-16 07:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Republicans simply do not care about Veterans.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-16 03:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5 | Posted by hamburglar

Even if he didn't, Palantir has it.

#9 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-12-16 04:00 PM | Reply

You said it, Snoofy. To Republicans, veterans like me and others on drudge.com are "useful idiots."

When MAGA veterans start showing up at VA centers for treatment next year wearing their red hats, you wonder how many staffers and other patients will scoff at them.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-16 04:01 PM | Reply

I'll have to talk to my sucker and loser friends living off the government teet. Okay, enough sarcasm - only half voted for him.

#11 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-12-16 04:02 PM | Reply

Last time DJT 'abruptly eliminated' health care, half a million children starved to death.

Trumpers count that as one of their Most Important Accomplishments.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-16 04:15 PM | Reply