87 year-old disabled vet arrested for protesting MAGA cuts to veterans benefits. Check this map for who may be next.
Veterans Benefits
Arresting veterans who protest against cuts to veteran's benefits in the MAGA Murder Budget
“I primarily went to Washington because I don’t like what’s going on at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Those people working there are scared to death they’re going to get the chopping block, and that’s where I get all my health care,” said John Spitzberg, a former major who served in the military from 1958 to 1972. - Stars and Stripes
The Trump administration is following Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation that revises VA’s disability review process, slashes awards for disabled veterans and veterans’ benefits. It would tax VA disability compensation and phase out some benefits when veterans reach retirement age - Stars and Stripes (excerpts)
For a party that professes to care about those who have served our country, Fascist Republicans have nothing but contempt for our veterans. - Andra Watkins
Trump Department of Veterans Affairs reorganization includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care and other services for millions of veterans. - AP
Mapping where veterans will be hurt by the cuts
Trump’s federal hiring freeze raises fears about VA medical care
"... concern that Trump’s new federal hiring freeze could hurt operations at Veterans Affairs medical centers by complicating efforts to fill critical health care specialties."
“If VA freezes hiring as mandated in Trump’s executive order, veterans could face significant wait times for medical appointments and reductions in access to care and benefits. The drafters of these orders clearly did not consider the downstream effects of a hiring freeze on the millions of veterans who rely on VA," said Mark Takano, D-CA, the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee - Military Times
Veterans deserve better
Project 2025 defaults to private-sector outsourcing of services that the federal government has traditionally provided. This approach causes two problems for veterans:
Veterans make up around 30% of the federal workforce (300,000 employees.) Project 2025’s stated mission to deploy Schedule F to fire tens of thousands of federal workers will directly impact veterans, working both within and beyond the VA. (SOURCE: Project 2025 The Worst-Case Scenario for Veterans by Michael Embrich)
For VA users, Project 2025’s twisting of the meaning of “veteran-centric” care will negatively impact the timeliness, quality and cost of veteran healthcare. - Andra Watkins
How Republicans insult veterans
How Trump and Republicans Insult Veterans
MAGA Republicans' scheme to sellout veterans
Project 2025 will force veterans to use private-sector “community clinics” staffed with people who have no military experience. Claims and payments for these services will be outsourced to private-sector third parties, which operate like for-profit insurance companies. Project 2025 will also leave around 300,000 federal veterans unemployed.
TakeAway: Remind your MAGA rep that cutting veterans' services on Memorial Day is not by slashing Veterans' benefits and their hospitals.
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Aren't we glad such dangerous hippies are off the streets! Grrr . . . What kind of stupid idiot would arrest an 87-year-old man for protesting?
This is unbelievable. Arresting people for protesting is absolutely horrific. This frightening regime is working Project 2025 with lightning speed. MAGA just turns the other cheek and loves Trump. Many people will die.