An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.
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I still haven't & NEVER WILL FORGET that Steve Mnuchin (yes, THAT guy) foreclosed on thousands of military in 2008 - while taking federal dollars to 'buy out' Indymac, and create his own One West Bank, taking more fed $$ to NOT foreclose, then foreclosing anyway & selling OWB-AFTER he triple dipped.
The American Nazi Party aka the GOP seems determined to lose Veterans, educators and those who support public education, all Federal workers, anyone who values science and research etc etc etc are they trying to lose elections or do they think Donald will sign an EO suspending them
Yes, but veterans have a particular affinity for this guy bc a lot of the past quarter century of anti-terror wars have created a military that is particularly susceptible to this brand of jingoistic rhetoric. J6 first time round showed many were veterans.
Spread this far and wide. Foreclosure on veterans’ mortgages because of VA/Musk/Trump “mistake.” Potential homelessness for these veterans, due to the gov’t.
Hannah Arendt's warnings for Democracy -- “The most terrible thing was not the brutality of the system, but the terrifying normality of the people who sustained it.” The banality of evil - So, do we have enough decent people in the United States, willing to do the work of democracy to save us?
It won't matter once the VA is closed and the GOP pass a statute preventing any legal claims against any governmental agency or employee (unless they're non-white of course. No protection for those tortfeasors.
Republicans despise veterans. They love to display their flag pins and throw billions of dollars at defense contractors, but do not lift a finger for those who put their lives at stake for their country.
That’s right piss off ex-military people, screw them over with their homes,🖕their pensions and all their benefits🖕then make it more difficult to go on a website to get help. I wouldn’t stand so close to Mr. Dump and President musk😶 😉😉🙏🙏
Well since they’re trying to get rid of the post office and make it private, denying Vets a hotline for suicide and other problems they might incur, closing VA offices around the country and laying them off. I think they’re 7000 vets that are now without a job. Really? Let the constitution speak.
The last part of your post is apropos, when we keep in mind that ≈70% of vets (and LEOs) voted for Drumpf, and many continue to defend him, to date, and deflect the "blame" on others. Go figure. 🙄😮💨
Wow...haven't kept up with number breakdown, he may take away my social security, but at least I tried to stop him, proudly did not vote for him. My God...
What are Leo’s? There are years of these departs that needed an overhaul. It’s called kicking the can down the road. There was 9/11, Desert storm, 21 years of Afghanistan and Iraq war, Ukraine, Russia, Gaza…the pandemic, fires, tornadoes, floods, etc. there was/is so much going on. Now the shit show
DonOld an the ENTIRE MAGA GOP Christian Nationalist Republican Party doesn't give a FCK about veterans they only use veterans as props to get their votes.
Forbearance is an excellent way to provide relief. Essentially, the maturity date on loan is extended enough to bring it current. It doesn’t hurt anyone and it prevents foreclosure.
I think it’s time to definitely review the entitlements given to Congress first. Cut their pensions, healthcare for life. Time for them to be on the same insurance as everyone else on Medicare and for them to live on social security
That won't happen. They're protected. "Under current law, Members receive regular paychecks during government shutdowns while thousands of federal employees are furloughed without pay."
ABSOLUTELY! I have been fighting for this for decades. And maybe this should be a full time job where they show up at work a minimum of 40 hours a week.
Congress should try getting up on their hind legs for the people who put their lives on the line for our country, instead of cowering like whipped dogs when the master raises his arm.
Shit is criminal. I'm not keen on war, but if you enlist people with benefits promised for time served, you damn well owe it to them. My friends on Tricare can barely find providers who take the insurance and most colleges won't take GI BILL. Why would anyone enroll?
Let's revoke Elon Musk's American citizenship! We have legal grounds for this, and it goes through the court, not Congress. MuskRat has no respect for our Constitution, our country, and our people. He doesn't deserve to be American! Sign and repost! https://chng.it/yVwGnDCqCR
Bone spurs commander in chief draft dodger who thinks anyone who was injured or a POW is a loser and sucker screwing over veterans is not surprising in the least.
A leaked memo revealed that the dept is planning on firing 83k employees later this year. While Blumenthal's bill has little chance of getting taken up while Repubs control the Senate, it does mark the latest, strongest effort to date by Democrats to confront Repubs on the issues of cuts to the VA.
oh okay i found it way down at the bottom of the article...
"head of the VA's home loans program, John Bell, testified that 15k veterans have had their troubled mortgages rescued by the new VA Servicing Purchase program
That number was not greeted with applause by SOME REPUBLICANS on the committee."
If I were interviewing victims for these "the govt. is screwing over people who don't deserve it" stories, my first question would always be: Who did you vote for?
Because I suspect we're, at least in part, portraying as victims people who are simply reaping the harvest of their own vile politics.
I've read and heard over and over that FOX was the only news?? our armed forces heard.
Could this be why they voted for pres felony?
They'd been brainwashed so to speak?
There is no evidence that Biden actively directed or influenced the VA’s decision to shut down the program in 2022. The program’s termination was set in motion by a VA rule published months earlier, and the rationale cited was legal (a lapse in authority) rather than political. Nice try.
Also it was originally a COVID relief program signed into law by your god king Trump in 2020 but it was Biden that supported VASP in 2023 when the original program fell apart.
This is unbelievable!! Everyone who votes against republicans democrats, libertarians, independents, whoever! Should be put on the frontline of any conflict and left
Most of these vets likely voted for trump and the gop majority that exists ... they are now experiencing the 'find out' phase of FAFO ... tough shit, vets ... so many of you voted for a coward, draft dodger and con man who disparaged our military so many times, it's not even funny ... SHAME
The only thing that will smarten up Trump voters is for them to feel some pain from what the orange turd is doing. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of collateral damage to those who didn't .... but this is inescapable and the only thing that will bring change in the Republican Party.
Please work to assure any
Veterans involved in this is protected from foreclosure
@padilla.senate.gov
@schiff.senate.gov
@aoc.bsky.social
@vindman.house.gov
@liccardo.house.gov
@sanders.senate.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
"Under current law, Members receive regular paychecks during government shutdowns while thousands of federal employees are furloughed without pay." This is egregiously unfair, especially now that we're under a regime and not a government.
This is unconscionable. The very least we can do is tell our representatives in DC to make sure this isn’t cut.
Please contact yours and let them know.
This is heartbreaking. Our veterans deserve better than bureaucratic mistakes putting their homes at risk. Congress needs to step up and ensure no one gets left behind
There is a need for the VA to look into how D R Horton builds houses whose construction is worthless needing a homeowner to spend thousands of dollars to reconstruct D R Horton’s shotty construction void of proper insulation drywall doors and windows during their hobnob construction.
even with this service the debt owed by
the US to veterans is immeasurable.
someone take away their DJT gifted Sharpies.
all were used to sign his stuff, but only a few
also had some snotty kid's snot on it. lucky.
hello ebay!!
🤦🏽♂️
Rs talk DoD budgets, but they really mean weapon systems for their contractor donation base. Note they hate spending it on personnel, families and vets.
If anyone thinks the party that's busy cutting veterans benefits/firing them from fed service are gonna line up to help these 40k veterans, they need their heads examined.
Disabled vet.
DYOR. Reps won House, Johnson speaker Oct 25. Foreclosure aid ended Oct 28.
Blaming Biden a lie.
2 38 C.F.R. § 36.4809(c) ("…Sec will not accept a request for a partial claim payment after Oct 28, 2022.").
Reps lie, disrespect vets & service members. https://www.benefits.va.gov/HOMELOANS/documents/circulars/26-24-02.pdf
That's why these one-time good deal programs are very dangerous. They can't just be stopped abruptly. And, the VA needs programs to help those with disabilities, seen or hidden. This country should support them over another tax cut to the rich. The Vets served to keep us safe!
….does Congress want the US to have a viable military in the future…if so then they had better get their priories straight and take care of vets…otherwise there will be 0 enlistments….
….as if yet there is no call for a draft… only Congress can do so and since the US is not at war, it would most likely be a highly unpopular move even for Repubs…
Both parties in Congress seem to be aligning against veterans and federal workers.
One party by spreading disinformation to benefit billionaires.
And the other party by remaining silent…to benefit billionaires.
Remove Trump. He's one traitorous man causing grief, destitute, anxiety, destroying medical supports, incomes, confidence, and relationships with allies. He's war mongering on the side of historic enemies. One man who needs boundaries and consequences. Take him out of the picture and make it right.
mixed feelings since I am an Air Force retiree and i have a VA loan and hate donnie even though I am a Republican and voted for Kamala. Not sure i feel bad for those who voted for him, were outright cruel to anyone who did not, and are now losing all of it.
According to the article, the veterans face foreclosure because of of a change that the VA made in 2022. Why did the VA make such a hurtful decision under a Democratic administration?
As usual NPR buries the lede. Republicans in Congress want to kill the rescue plan knowing thousands of veterans will then lose their homes to foreclosure.
And that’s what your fucking headline should tell people. But the article doesn’t even mention it until the FOURTEENTH PARAGRAPH.
And the Republican with the bill to kill the rescue plan? 2 years ago he yelled at the head of the VA loans program “you better develop a rescue plan!” But the article doesn’t mention that AT ALL.
Eat shit, NPR. I am sick of how you always look for a way to help Republicans evade accountability.
President Bone Spurs cut the draft and now wants to cut 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Avoid service, then screw over those who served. Then tell us how you love veterans. This guy.
The cultist mindset that has permeated our American history... the dynamic, subjective, & rigid duality of "you're with us, or against us." Of course, said duality rests on a solid foundation of willful festering ignorance, & all that the latter offers us: nothing good, at all; eventual destruction.
If Congress cuts it? It’s their big, beautiful president, Elon, and his First Lady, Trump, doing the spending cuts. Congress (especially the dems) just rolled over and it let happen. MAGA!!! 🥳
Project 2026.
True-blue red-blooded American patriots step up & remove Trump from office by any means necessary.
If the military that We the People pay to protect & defend our Constitution & die for our Liberty ain't going to do it, then We the People will have to do it ourselves by Revolution.
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Why the fuck do veterans vote for the God damned Republican party?!?!?
but... seriously, this can't be a real country.
Seems a bit short sighted screwing over a group of people you trained in the art of war..
exactly why it needs to be torn down and rebuilt
now watch everyone pile in and blame Trump for this
smh
Corporate and billionaire greed from the radical Trump regime threatens veterans homes!
"head of the VA's home loans program, John Bell, testified that 15k veterans have had their troubled mortgages rescued by the new VA Servicing Purchase program
That number was not greeted with applause by SOME REPUBLICANS on the committee."
Because I suspect we're, at least in part, portraying as victims people who are simply reaping the harvest of their own vile politics.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/veterans-vote-trump/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Could this be why they voted for pres felony?
They'd been brainwashed so to speak?
Be honest, REPUBLICANS WANT TO SCRAP IT!
Or sabotage?
Veterans involved in this is protected from foreclosure
@padilla.senate.gov
@schiff.senate.gov
@aoc.bsky.social
@vindman.house.gov
@liccardo.house.gov
@sanders.senate.gov
@whitehouse.senate.gov
That's why!!!!!
Please contact yours and let them know.
Don't blow it.
Say who it is:
"Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden" and "and some other Republicans"
It's the GOP.
Republicans want to kick veterans out of their homes.
Stop carrying water for these selfish shits.
the US to veterans is immeasurable.
someone take away their DJT gifted Sharpies.
all were used to sign his stuff, but only a few
also had some snotty kid's snot on it. lucky.
hello ebay!!
🤦🏽♂️
but carry on
The maga cult party is happy to use us as a prop, but when it comes to making sure Vets are taken care of, they couldn't care less.
DYOR. Reps won House, Johnson speaker Oct 25. Foreclosure aid ended Oct 28.
Blaming Biden a lie.
2 38 C.F.R. § 36.4809(c) ("…Sec will not accept a request for a partial claim payment after Oct 28, 2022.").
Reps lie, disrespect vets & service members.
https://www.benefits.va.gov/HOMELOANS/documents/circulars/26-24-02.pdf
I never thought I'd see the day when a President of the USA would kick veterans to the curb.
cowards or conspirators or cult followers
not good option
they deserve what they deserve
One party by spreading disinformation to benefit billionaires.
And the other party by remaining silent…to benefit billionaires.
Not saying I disagree with them...
And that’s what your fucking headline should tell people. But the article doesn’t even mention it until the FOURTEENTH PARAGRAPH.
Eat shit, NPR. I am sick of how you always look for a way to help Republicans evade accountability.
How can any vet ever vote for Republicans?
True-blue red-blooded American patriots step up & remove Trump from office by any means necessary.
If the military that We the People pay to protect & defend our Constitution & die for our Liberty ain't going to do it, then We the People will have to do it ourselves by Revolution.