TUMPing-A-Fool: VA cuts benefits for homeless Veterans #RespectOurTroops #TiredOfWinningYet #MAGA
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The VA says it is essentially ending a special $460 million program that has dramatically reduced homelessness among chronically sick and vulnerable veterans. VA Secretary David Shulkin is pictured. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo
VA cuts program for homeless vets after touting Trump's commitment
By ARTHUR ALLEN and LORRAINE WOELLERT
12/06/2017 05:49 PM EST
Updated 12/06/2017 07:13 PM EST
Four days after Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin held a big Washington event to tout the Trump administration’s promise to house all homeless vets, the agency did an about-face, telling advocates it was pulling resources from a major housing program.
The VA said it was essentially ending a special $460 million program that has dramatically reduced homelessness among chronically sick and vulnerable veterans. Instead, the money would go to local VA hospitals that can use it as they like, as long as they show evidence of dealing with homelessness.
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Anger exploded on a Dec. 1 call that was arranged by Shulkin’s Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans to explain the move. Advocates for veterans, state officials and even officials from HUD, which co-sponsors the program, attacked the decision, according to five people who were on the call.
"I don’t understand why you are pulling the rug out," Elisha Harig-Blaine, a National League of Cities housing official who was on the call, said in an interview afterward. "You're putting at risk the lives of men and women who've served this country."
“The VA is taking its foot off the pedal,” said Leon Winston, an executive at Swords to Plowshares, which helps homeless vets in San Francisco, where he said the VA decision is already having an impact. HUD recently put up 100 housing vouchers for veterans in the program, but the local VA hospital said it could only provide support for 50.
The agency's move came as HUD on Wednesday released its annual survey showing a 1.5 percent increase in veteran homelessness over 2016 — the first rise since 2010. Most of the jump occurred in Los Angeles, where housing costs are skyrocketing.
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When asked about the administration’s budget, which includes no additional vouchers for the hard-case veterans, Carson said HUD had “excess vouchers. When we use those, we’ll look for more,” he said.
“The old paradigm of dumping money on problems doesn’t work,” Carson added.
Some communities have excess vouchers, but many more don’t have enough, said Harig-Blaine, who is also a member of Shulkin's advisory committee. Even in cities where there are excess vouchers, they exist only because the voucher community can’t compete with private market rents, he said — not because there aren’t homeless veterans there.
All 14 members of the Senate Appropriations Military Construction-VA Subcommittee, including Murray, asked the VA to reconsider its decision, but apparently the letter had no effect.
“It will take a congressional fix at this point,” Harig-Blaine said.
Advocates said cuts to the program were doubly foolish because the chronically homeless veterans it serves typically cost cities and the health care system hundreds of thousands of dollars for emergency room visits, ambulance runs and jailings that could be avoided if the veterans were reasonably sheltered.
“These are the kinds of veterans it deals with,” said Kathryn Monet, CEO of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.
Renuka Rayasam contributed to this report.
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CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the time sequence of Shulkin's Washington event. It was four days.
They all voted for trump so...
I want all his plans to go through....
i hope .... u already know
Is anyone takng note of these things?
Is there a national list of "things that Trump hurt us by"?
Is there a national list of "things that Trump hurt us by"?
It'd be easier to keep a list of things he hasn't hurt us with.
Blacks should still inlist just in non combat roles. Rember a barber gets paid the same as a Navy Seal and they also get the same benifits lol. The GI bill pays the guy who makes omlets the same as the guy who killed Bin Laden LMAO. And when the retire they get the same free meal from Golden Corral on Vets Day....You can't beat that with a stick.
its a damn shame...but i do too. i want to see the anguish and pain of the realization that his poor white supporters have brought upon themselves. they were wrong and voted for him out of spite and bigotry. now they will reap what they have sown. it is a sad thing for this country bc things will get worse before they get better.
Repub voters believe and fall for what they say without consequences or proof of action.
After outcry, the plan to cut it has been killed
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/homeless-veterans-benefits-trump-207781?lo=ap_e1
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/homeless-veterans-benefits-trump-207781?lo=ap_e1
Dems will let everyone forget that they tried it smh
One day, ya'll gon' realize these motherfuckers will say any damn thing and do any damn thing.
Once you finally accept that shit - 'cause I think you know it on some level, but still expect some basic human decency from them - you won't be posting five topics a day about their fuckery. Shit is normal news like a weather report OF 75 degrees and sunny in LA. .
Once you finally accept that shit - 'cause I think you know it on some level, but still expect some basic human decency from them - you won't be posting five topics a day about their fuckery. Shit is normal news like a weather report OF 75 degrees and sunny in LA. .
Yeen lyin'.
yep which is why I advise brothas to join air force or navy
Okay. But no.
You got Cacs out here that did make omelets claiming to be WAR vets when they made omelets. Bill Dautrive asses. Lmao! I get your point, but
I’m not signing up to die for a country that wishes I would. Let the white die out there. They want it so bad, let em have it.
Not many are enlisting for this country at least not black folks.
Black folks enlist for themselves to have a chance at a better future . Many don't have the grades or the resources to get into college and for many others college just isn't their thing....Well they can be trained to do any occupation in the free world because the military has those jobs. They get room and board...medical....and if it is in their character they can retire in 20 years with life benefits and a check and still be young enough to get a job but with 20 years experience.
if they don't like the first job they picked then cross train....and there is matching plans to get your college in if that is what you want.
Nah homie most black folks ain't joing for the country at all.
go to the AF but whichever branch do your research on the training/job you want..
and don't enlist when they got wars going on ...
......although if your asvab is good enough you can get really good deals when recruitment is down.
Okay. But no.
You got Cacs out here that did make omelets claiming to be WAR vets when they made omelets. Bill Dautrive asses. Lmao! I get your point, but
Drone pilots go to war in the Nevada desert, staring at video screens
Yeah you'll really die in an air-conditioned trailer in Nevada..
You type like you would only qualify to be a grunt...Like I said , you doing it not for them
Believe me, they really hate these homeless vets. They know most of them are on meth or opioids who are living on SSDI. They are like "uncle same gave you a trade, room and board for 4 years and you fucked it up?" They also worried that black vets will get something for nothing too.
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