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BumRushDaShow

(160,940 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:11 PM Jun 2025

'You just turned your back': Pro-Trump vets furious as critical VA program cut

Source: Raw Story

June 19, 2025 5:54PM ET


NPR reports the Trump administration is now canceling a program designed to help veterans behind on home loans get new, low-interest mortgages. And veterans are furious. "My social media posts have not been nice to the director of the VA and have not been nice to Trump. And I voted for the guy!" said Jon Henry, who served in Iraq during the first Gulf War.

Last month, the Veterans Administration abruptly killed its VA Servicing Purchase (VASP) safety net program, which has helped more than 33,000 veterans and service members, according to the VA. But this most recent service cancellation is only the latest in a VA mortgage roller-coaster leaving service members confused about what help the federal government actually provides, if any.

“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dramatically increased the risk of foreclosure for tens of thousands of Veterans and their families,” reported the Center for Responsible Lending in May. However, it was only April 10 when the Trump administration announced the birth of the VASP program as “a new, last-resort tool in VA’s comprehensive suite of home retention options for eligible Veterans, active-duty Service members, and surviving spouses …”

ICE Mortgage Technology surveys indicate roughly 80,000 U.S. vets are behind on mortgages and spiraling toward foreclosure. NPR reached out to more than 50 veterans around the country who say they are terrified. "It's like, damn, you keep talking big about how you're doing all this for the veterans, but you just turned your back on 80,000 vets that have VA loans," said Henry.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/department-of-veterans-affairs-2672403126/

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'You just turned your back': Pro-Trump vets furious as critical VA program cut (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 OP
Live and learn, dudes. republianmushroom Jun 2025 #1
Sympathy, dudes. mwmisses4289 Jun 2025 #2
Between shit and trump Captain Zero Jun 2025 #4
Favorite phrase of my cousin BaronChocula Jun 2025 #10
Yes it is atreides1 Jun 2025 #28
Brilliantly said. Duncanpup Jun 2025 #29
He called you "suckers and losers" and is a felon...why did you vote for him? travelingthrulife Jun 2025 #3
FAFO idiots get what you voted for. we can do it Jun 2025 #5
Only an estimated 60% of vets voted for Trump Mysterian Jun 2025 #7
That's 60% too many. Meadowoak Jun 2025 #14
I'm glad to be one of the 40%. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jun 2025 #23
How did they warm up to an asshole that calls them suckers and losers mdbl Jun 2025 #6
They're white nationalists BaronChocula Jun 2025 #11
This week Traildogbob Jun 2025 #8
He also said they can refuse treatment for Republicans, Kaleva Jun 2025 #31
FAFO howardmappel Jun 2025 #9
He has ALWAYS hated and derided military and veterans. usonian Jun 2025 #12
As a military retiree and disabled veteran, I've wondered for years why so many veterans vote for conservatives Bluejeans Jun 2025 #13
Any one in the military or retired military. DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #16
I don't think that any candidate has tried to address the military directly. In the USCG, like the rest of the military LT Barclay Jun 2025 #21
Leopards Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #15
too fucking bad, ain't it? ya'll thought you were the big orleans Jun 2025 #17
I'm one of them... Shipwack Jun 2025 #18
Trump has openly and continually disrespected our troops and vets dlk Jun 2025 #19
Sorry...No respect for any Vet who voted for a treasonous felon who tried to overturn the government by force. Scalded Nun Jun 2025 #20
No one held a gun to your head on voting for Trump so deal with it as you get no sympathy from me. cstanleytech Jun 2025 #22
The turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving... mwooldri Jun 2025 #24
Come on. TSF didn't turn his back on veterans. Trueblue Texan Jun 2025 #25
Burp Botany Jun 2025 #26
Trump a phony? nah Passages Jun 2025 #27
Those Vets turned their back on America when they voted for him. No whining. nt Hotler Jun 2025 #30
Wait until they find out he is single-handedly trying to make them fodder in another Middle East war. travelingthrulife Jun 2025 #32

atreides1

(16,799 posts)
28. Yes it is
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:30 AM
Jun 2025

Vets for Trump can find sympathy in the dictionary, between shit and syphilis...

Mysterian

(5,953 posts)
7. Only an estimated 60% of vets voted for Trump
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:02 PM
Jun 2025

You shouldn't lump them all together like that.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,804 posts)
23. I'm glad to be one of the 40%.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:50 AM
Jun 2025

Although I must admit to being clueless politically back in the 1980s when I was in the USAF. I voted Republican back then and voted for Reagan and Bush. It wasn’t until I got a union job and started reading literature like Mother Jones and from people like Jim Hightower that I started seeing things clearly. I’ve voted Democratic since Clinton and I’ll stay that way the rest of my life.

mdbl

(7,459 posts)
6. How did they warm up to an asshole that calls them suckers and losers
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:45 PM
Jun 2025

They expected something else?

BaronChocula

(3,424 posts)
11. They're white nationalists
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jun 2025

like the white farmers who voted for him who can't sell their soybeans
like the white black lung disease sufferers who voted for him and will lose their coverage
like the white government employees who voted for him and lost their jobs
like the white low-wage earners who haven't seen prices go down
etc.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED at all the faux surprise.

They prioritized not having a black woman president. They all knew what they were voting for. They aren't new.

Traildogbob

(11,902 posts)
8. This week
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:03 PM
Jun 2025

He told VA doctors they can refuse treatment for democrats and unmarried vets and service people.
But he loves us. He just pit up “88” foot flag poles to honor MurKKKa.
Is it legal????? Since when has that mattered to these assholes.
Every vet I see at The VA with trump shit on, I wanna slap some fucking sense in them. FFS, is the damn comma permanent?

Kaleva

(39,982 posts)
31. He also said they can refuse treatment for Republicans,
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:39 AM
Jun 2025

Red Heads, short people and those who are left handed.

usonian

(20,987 posts)
12. He has ALWAYS hated and derided military and veterans.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:48 PM
Jun 2025

How in the name of Nimitz did ANY vet vote for that POS?

Fucking Private Pyle.

Bluejeans

(129 posts)
13. As a military retiree and disabled veteran, I've wondered for years why so many veterans vote for conservatives
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jun 2025

The VA's latest cut of the VA Servicing Purchase (VASP) safety net program is yet another example of the GOP screwing veterans.

Why any vet would vote for a GOP candidate is beyond my comprehension.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
16. Any one in the military or retired military.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:07 PM
Jun 2025

As well as any minority voting for him or any RepubliCON ......Black, Mexican, Asian, LBTQ, etc etc etc....................Absolutely mind boggling.........

The dems should have been focusing on educating all of them about what was being said by RepubliCONs all these years......

LT Barclay

(3,110 posts)
21. I don't think that any candidate has tried to address the military directly. In the USCG, like the rest of the military
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:38 PM
Jun 2025

there is this pervasive subtext that the republicans are military friendly. I think it is started by flag officers sucking around looking for a big fat military contractor teat for retirement.
There was a USCG warrant officer that I had some respect for. He was working his way through the office on a reserve weekend (he was active duty) and discussing this with everyone. When it was my turn I told him that the republicans are friendly to military contractors, not service members. He found the concept satisfying. I hate that the media has managed to turn the entire country towards binary thinking, like the war in Israel. Not many people can grasp the concept that both sides are wrong and will have to find a way out together. So people think "military friendly" means friendly to everyone who has a connection however tenuous with the military. And "business friendly" lumps mom and pop shops with international mega-corporations.
Anyway, I wish some democratic or independent candidate would address "military friendly" regularly. Discuss the treason, cowardice, betrayals of front line troops as well as retirees and families.

orleans

(36,442 posts)
17. too fucking bad, ain't it? ya'll thought you were the big
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:08 PM
Jun 2025

exceptions. you were fine with trump fucking other people up the ass. but you don't like it? better get the lube b/c it turns out you were stupid as hell.

WOMP WOMP



Shipwack

(2,866 posts)
18. I'm one of them...
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:26 PM
Jun 2025

Funny thing is, I was unaware of the program until I heard it was being canceled…

dlk

(12,972 posts)
19. Trump has openly and continually disrespected our troops and vets
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:32 PM
Jun 2025

Who did they think they were voting for?

Scalded Nun

(1,520 posts)
20. Sorry...No respect for any Vet who voted for a treasonous felon who tried to overturn the government by force.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jun 2025

Go cry in your oatmeal and let real Americans try and correct this shit that YOU helped enable.

Speaking as a Vet. Disabled as well.

cstanleytech

(27,953 posts)
22. No one held a gun to your head on voting for Trump so deal with it as you get no sympathy from me.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:39 PM
Jun 2025

mwooldri

(10,728 posts)
24. The turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 03:16 AM
Jun 2025

...just found out they're the ones getting cooked and stuffed. Sorry folks you're not the turkey getting pardoned.

Trueblue Texan

(3,802 posts)
25. Come on. TSF didn't turn his back on veterans.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:05 AM
Jun 2025

He never had their back. Now he has finally revealed the policies that would let them know just what suckers and losers he believes them to be. FAFO.

travelingthrulife

(3,370 posts)
32. Wait until they find out he is single-handedly trying to make them fodder in another Middle East war.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:47 AM
Jun 2025
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