{"id":1002916,"date":"2018-11-13T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002916"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:13:07","slug":"trump-has-failed-our-nations-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-has-failed-our-nations-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has Failed Our Nation\u2019s Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over Veterans Day weekend, Americans saw once again how Trump has failed our nation\u2019s veterans. See for yourself:<\/p>\n

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Veterans haven\u2019t received GI Bill benefits for months due to glitches at Trump\u2019s Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cVeterans haven’t received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues at VA\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: \u201cThe Department of Veterans Affairs is suffering from a series of information technology glitches that has caused GI Bill benefit payments covering education and housing to be delayed or \u2014 in the case of Roundtree \u2014 never be delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump suggested not counting military ballots in the Florida Senate race.<\/p>\n

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Huffington Post<\/a>: \u201cBut skipping those recounts would not only violate state law, it would ignore the ballots of tens of thousands of Florida-based troops deployed overseas. Those ballots are supposed to be counted if they arrive by this coming Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump refused to visit a cemetery to honor Americans killed in World War I because of a little rain.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump canceled a planned visit to a cemetery for Americans killed in World War I, the White House said, citing bad weather that grounded his helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump constantly lies about his accomplishments to veterans and military service members.<\/p>\n

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Huffington Post<\/a>: \u201cEven the two major accomplishments he boasts of \u2015providing record-high budgets for the military and passing a law to let veterans see local private doctors \u2015 are both false.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s Department of Veterans Affairs is secretly being steered by three of his Mar-a-Lago cronies with no relevant experience.<\/p>\n

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ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cO\u2019Rourke treated the email as an order, but Moskowitz is not his boss. In fact, he is not even a government official. Moskowitz is a Palm Beach doctor who helps wealthy people obtain high-service \u2018concierge\u2019 medical care. More to the point, he is one-third of an informal council that is exerting sweeping influence on the VA from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump\u2019s private club in Palm Beach, Florida. The troika is led by Ike Perlmutter, the reclusive chairman of Marvel Entertainment, who is a longtime acquaintance of President Trump\u2019s. The third member is a lawyer named Marc Sherman. None of them has ever served in the U.S. military or government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s CFPB made it harder for the the Military Lending Act to protect service members and their families from deceitful lending practices.<\/p>\n

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NPR:<\/a> \u201cUnder Mulvaney, the bureau is planning to halt regular monitoring of payday lenders and other firms to see whether they are violating the act and cheating military personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump has yet to visit our troops in combat zones. He has found plenty of time, however, to golf, fundraise, and boost his bottom line.<\/p>\n

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