{"id":1227,"date":"2017-05-16T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/16\/dnc-trump-breaks-promise-to-give-vets-a-bigger-voice-at-the-va\/"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:32:00","slug":"dnc-trump-breaks-promise-to-give-vets-a-bigger-voice-at-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-trump-breaks-promise-to-give-vets-a-bigger-voice-at-the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC: Trump Breaks Promise To Give Vets a Bigger Voice at the VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a Military Times report on Trump&rsquo;s broken promise to establish a veterans&rsquo; hotline, DNC Deputy Press Secretary Brian Gabriel released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Donald Trump is breaking his promise to America&rsquo;s veterans by&nbsp;failing to establish a 24\/7 hotline for veterans that would individually address issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs.&nbsp; In part of a now-deleted 10-point plan to reform the VA, Trump claimed that even he would pick up the phone himself &lsquo;to ensure that no valid complaint about VA wrongdoing falls through the cracks.&rsquo; He hasn&rsquo;t moved a finger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Creating a hotline that gives former servicemembers a louder voice is the absolute least the Trump administration can do to square the debt owed to our nation&rsquo;s protectors.&nbsp;But more than 110 days into his Administration, Trump has shown that he&rsquo;s more interested in dishing out classified intelligence to the Russians than he is in providing real solutions for our men and women in uniform.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a Military Times report on Trump&rsquo;s broken promise to establish a veterans&rsquo; hotline, DNC Deputy Press Secretary Brian Gabriel released the following statement: &ldquo;Donald Trump is breaking his promise to America&rsquo;s veterans by&nbsp;failing to establish a 24\/7 hotline for veterans that would individually address issues at the Department of Veterans Affairs.&nbsp; In part of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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