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Over 80,000 Vets haven’t received GI Bill housing payments for MONTHS due to an IT issue.

There are over 40,000 homeless vets in America, & 1.4 mil at risk.

45,000 key posts at the VA remain vacant, including the Chief Info Officer.

And yet, Trump has ordered VA budget cuts.😡
Amidst catastrophic IT failures, 45,000 key posts at the VA remain unfilled by the Trump admin, including the Chief Information Officer.

Reports circled earlier this year that it is largely run by a cabal of Mar a Lago members.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
Amidst a catastrophic failure to deliver benefits, and a sharp increase in Vet homelessness since Trump entered office, the VA Sec has begun planning budget cuts Trump asked of each cabinet sec last month.

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GOP Accomplishments of 2018:
💢3 Gov shut downs over bullshit.
💢A combined tax heist and trade war that has wrecked the US economy.
💢Allowing the violence against women’s act to expire.
💢A Stock Market unraveling we haven’t seen since the last GOP Pres crashed it.
1)
💢Worst Dow Jones Dec since 1931.
💢a steep rise in hate crimes.
💢10,000 legal, asylum seeking children separated from families and imprisoned.
💢Loss of health insurance for 3 million Americans by gutting ind mandate.
💢Abdication of duty of Congressional oversight.
2)
💢Selling out America to the oil industry as we careen toward economic & human climate disaster.
💢Suppressing new energy economy employing hundreds of thousands to prop up the 19th century coal industry employing 40K.
💢Historic undermining of democracy and rule of law.
3)
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The Trump admin cut the advertising budget for the ACA by 90%.

FOIA obtained emails show this was knowingly designed to harm enrollment, and they repeatedly lied about that fact.

Dem House oversight puts an end to the sabotage. Remember what they did when they had the power.
On a call w/ reporters, in response to whether HHS had studied the efficacy of advertising, an official said, “We haven’t done a specific study related to the public awareness of the program.”

It was a lie. They had, & knew it would harm enrollment.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ve…
The day open enrollment began, the Trump administrator of ACA benefits wrote a tweet designed to scare Americans away from enrolling.

Now that Dems have won House oversight, she’s promoting enrollment. Oversight stops the sabotage.

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Marathon Petroleum, largest US oil refiner, is running a secret campaign to push the Trump’s proposal to lower vehicle emissions standards.

We have so much oil, you see, we don’t need to conserve!

Climate scientists give us 10 years to cut carbon or suffer untold misery. 🤷‍♂️
Man made climate change is warming the arctic at a pace that is “unlike any other period on record.” It’s warming TWICE AS FAST the rest of the planet’s average temp, according to NOAA.

The hour is very late.
Our doom approaches,
and we’re regressing.

cnn.com/2018/12/11/wor…
A doomsday cult alliance of the Koch Bros and the oil industry worked behind the scenes to increase their wealth at the cost of the next generation’s lives.

They know climate change is real, they just won’t survive to suffer it’s greatest misery.

nytimes.com/2018/12/13/cli…
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Unacceptable for even one veteran to be waiting on their GI Bill housing payments. But more than 82,000 veterans are -- facing eviction, getting kicked out of school, going into debt as benefits are delayed.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
At an urgent hearing, I called on the VA to come up with a concrete plan for when this will be fixed, how it will be fixed, and what we can do to expect better accountability going forward.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
We must ensure those who served our country are served when they return home. That's an education, job training, housing, mental and physical health care, a hand when they need one. That's a promise this country must keep with our veterans.
c-span.org/video/?c476180…
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The fact that @realDonaldTrump created mass hysteria over the caravan and then wasted $220M but more importantly @POTUS thinks OUR Armed Forces are his “play toys”.

Fork you, you forking mother forker.

How about Trump calls the VA & push for the GI bill paychecks.
Oh wait...
Sept 2018, “340,000 students attending school using the GI Bill received slightly smaller housing payments in August”

cc @HouseVetAffairs
stripes.com/news/students-…
October 2018 if @realDonaldTrump actually CARED & RESPECTED OUR Military and our Veterans.

1) he’d pick up the goddamn phone and light a fire (bad pun)
2) he’d call the VA & Congress into the WH & demand immediate actions
3) 🔻THIS IS BULLSHIT🔻
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
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Draft-dodging Trump – who ordered troops to the US-Mexico border as campaign stunt, keeping them from their families at Thanksgiving AND who refuses to visit Arlington Cemetery on Veteran's Day – demands that soldiers stationed abroad be excluded from voting in Florida midterms.
Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues at VA. "I’m about to lose everything & become homeless. I don’t want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven’t received what I was promised."
#Maddow nbcnews.to/2B3cUat
Roundtree said that because of his extremely strained finances, he is forced to choose between spending money on public transportation to get to his marketing classes or buying food. The veteran said he often makes himself go to sleep hungry.
#Maddow
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Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to a series of information technology glitches at the Department of Veterans Affairs. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
Dept of Veterans Affairs IT issues are delaying benefits(4 months)

"Im about to lose everything that I own and become homeless...I dont want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven’t received what I was promised."#VeteransDay18 nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
As of August, Veterans Benefits Admin had 239K claims—100K more than in Aug 2017

"As school began, thousands of students faced dire circumstances and some faced eviction, getting kicked out of school or taking on loan or credit card debt" #VeteransDay18 nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…
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Macron's European army proposal 'very insulting', says Trump as he lands in France. f24.my/3xyM.T

But calling our European allies a "national security threat" to justify steel and aluminum tariffs isn't insulting. Got it.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel unveil commemorative plaque at the spot where the Armistice ending World War I was signed 100 years ago #armistice100

American president* MIA – again.
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There would be a "Stormy weather" joke in here, if the event wasn't so somber. #100yearsago #armistice100
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My son is a Veteran of the United States Army. He went to the #VA in Salt Lake City yesterday. This was the condition of the room he was seen in. Very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful. Please retweet. Maybe @realDonaldTrump will see it.
.@OrrinHatch @SenMikeLee @RepJohnCurtis please look into this.
.update, the condition of the room was the way it was when he went in, no other room was offered and no attempt to clean it up was made for the duration of his appointment. No apologies offered. He received injections for a service injury during one of his tours in Iraq.
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