VA Disability Benefits at Risk

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Per Military.com, Disability Benefits could be under review.

During his confirmation hearing Jan. 21, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins pledged to preserve veterans benefits and not "balance the budgets on the backs of veterans."

But the confirmation of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who contributed to two conservative playbooks that support significant changes to VA disability benefits, has put veterans service organizations on guard against any potential shifts in VA compensation.

Read more here;

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/11/veterans-groups-keep-watch-va-disability-benefits-under-trump-administration.html?ESRC=mr_250217.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=mr&utm_campaign=20250217

[Skittles]

1. Vought is a real piece of shit

and of COURSE he did not serve

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2. This whole "administration" is filled with assholes who

have no idea what they're doing.

[Skittles]

3. oh they know what they are doing

they are pimping for Donald Fucking Trump and they are CORRUPT

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4. True...my comment was that they have no idea of

the pain and suffering they are inflicting on the populace. And they could care less.

[Skittles]

5. they actually told us to expect pain

and people voted for them anyways

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6. And I don't get it. My cousin is very well educated and a small

town lawyer...very happy at what he does, but a full fledged trump humper. Even though tsf screwed over his father in a business deal. I honestly don't get it.

[Skittles]

7. it is cult behavior

cult leaders have been around throughout history - what truly astonishes me is how anyone could look at Trump and not see him for what he really is - or even worse, admire him for it......the man has NO redeeming features, not a single one.....he is vile in EVERY sense of the word

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8. Bonus Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The demonstrators were led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant.

Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment with compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.

On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.