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."
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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.
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Deployed Inside the US: 5,600 American troops on the southern border wait for the migrant caravan with little electricity, no combat pay, & holidays away from home on a "mission" ordered by Trump and a Pentagon unable to convince him of its perils.
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