Trump is NOT Defunding the VA

Despite the liberal whining propaganda of how Trump is going to destroy America with DOGE, rest assured he is not defunding the VA.

Instead, he is stripping away most of the waste and redirecting funds to actually benefit our veterans.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins announced that his department saved $900 million after viewing a mere 2% of government contracts.

That is 2%…as in only 2%.

 

As a result, liberals are screaming about unfounded fears that the Trump Administration will cut veteran benefits or health care.

Instead, these measures will provide the government with more aid for our veterans by eliminating government waste.

(like the $900 million found among the 2%)

 

“The days of kicking the can down the road and measuring VA’s progress by how much money it spends and how many people it employs, rather than how many veterans it helps, are over”

 

~ Veterans Secretary Doug Collins ~

Up to this point, the VA has been overspending because it had no way to manage former contracts.

 

Cue up:  VA spending…

 

Veterans Affairs requires a massive amount of funding.

The department set a budget of $369.3 billion for FY2025, a nearly a 10% increase from the year prior.

The agency requires $134 billion in discretionary funding for health care, benefits, and cemeteries.

And they wish to inject another $253.3 billion into mandatory benefit program funding, and put another $191.1 billion toward compensation and pensions for 6.9 million veterans.

The Cost of War Toxic Exposers Fund (TEF) alone requires $24.5 billion. Another $192.1 billion will go toward education and job training for 1.1 million veterans and qualified dependents.

 

Not Defunding

 

Eliminating waste and not defunding the VA will require a lot of overpaid agencies losing their gravy train contracts.

Why?

 

Because the VA outsources most of its work to contractors, many of whom have been charging top dollar for their services.

There are currently over 90,000 contracts in place through the VA worth over $67 billion.

So, instead of managing or reviewing the current contracts, the past administration continued to issue more.

And by terminating 585 contracts, a mere 1% of total active contracts, it eliminated $900 million in waste that will be directed to American veterans.

 

(See 2% above)

 

Secretary Collins noted that the canceled contracts were either duplicative agreements or non-mission-critical.

 

Ironically (or NOT) duplicative agreements seem to be quite prevalent in revealing most of the waste being exposed by DOGE.

The sad truth is that the Democrats propaganda over issues like defunding the VA has convinced the sheeple to protest the fact that they are being robbed.

 

 

 

 

Speaking of being robbed, be sure to read Spending Over $1 Trillion on DEI to Build Back Better in our March newsletter (HERE).

 

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