Project 2025, does if address veterans?

From the Defeat Project 2025 webpage:
“ Project 2025 proposes that the VA reduce expenses by cutting benefits while funneling a larger fraction of its current budget into the pockets of private contractors. It proposes a personnel policy of replacing the leadership and decision makers with political appointees, while outsourcing core functions and silencing dissent from existing staff. It mixes policies from the current VA strategic plan with a dangerous vein of reduced benefits, corporate plundering, and politicization.”

defeatproject2025.org/issues/veterans/

Private contractors bleed the government programs dry..
Note: Medicare privatized..
Charter schools..

No different from what will happen to Veteran services..
casii

Rest assured they are going to fuck over the military and Vets as much as possible, too. Hope your Dad doesn't use the VA for health benefits..

Here ya go casii

The Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump administration would plunder veterans' benefits and shower cash on private contractors.

Right-wing policy makers led by the Heritage Foundation are crafting a detailed plan to slash federal spending, cut taxes, gut regulatory agencies, stock the federal government with loyalists and privatize many government functions, including the Veterans Health Administration.

www.rawstory.com/project-2025-veterans/

And more.. casii

A chapter in the massive, 920-page Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise released by the conservative think tank details cost-cutting measures and other proposed changes to the Veterans Administration, including the replacement of its leaders and decision makers with political appointees.

Brooks D. Tucker, who served as chief of staff for Trump’s second VA secretary Robert Wilkie, wrote the chapter on VA reforms with the assistance of Darin Selnick, who called for dismantling the agency when serving on a presidential commission in 2016 and worked for the Koch brothers-funded Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).
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Among other recommendations, the plan proposes eliminating concurrent eligibility for both service-related disability benefits and military retirement benefits, which Tucker says would reduce mandatory outlays by at least $160 billion through 2032, and revising the disability rating awards that determine eligibility for benefits and determine monthly disability compensation to reap "significant cost savings."

The plan also proposes to end enrollment in VA medical care for veterans in two low-priority groups to save an estimated $69 billion through 2032 and narrow eligibility for veterans disability by excluding disabilities that cannot be related to military service, which would save an estimated $37.6 billion during that same period.

Tucker recommends the expansion of Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) rather that maintaining or upgrading "obsolete" or "unaffordable" VA health care campuses that currently provide inpatient services, emergency care and other health services in one location.

Project 2025 also calls for privatizing the Department of Defense’s current TRICARE system offered to military families, which Tucker claims would provide higher quality care and result in $60 billion in savings, and require married service members to share a housing allowance and document their housing expenditures.

www.rawstory.com/project-2025-veterans/

Random comments:

***. Reiterates my recent rant how in the hell ANY person voting for Trump can consider himself a patriot, after Trump said- as the sitting US president- that our combat dead in Europe were "losers and suckers". As a VA doc for 33 years and now a VA patient receiving Grade A care, I am aware of excellent satisfaction ratings with what Biden has done for our system .

***. Someone had better warn the military and hard working men and women about what is about to take place should tfg actually become president again. There are going to be some very highly upset individuals! They really don't get the recognition or the pay that they really deserve for the job that they do at all..........

***. Just left a house where they have the American flag and U.S.M.C. flag on either side of the front porch.....and between them was a yuge Trump flag. They have never even heard of Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, or Federalist Society.....very few people have. And those idiots and uninformed is gonna be what destroys democracy. Project 2025 is gonna take away $1978.00 a month from his income and take away his VA healthcare.....and he refuses to believe or investigate what I just told him. He’s voting Red down the line. He says this is all made up shit by the Democrats......

Ignore that blank post. I was trying to quote the OP and ask if her father is my brother in law…..

Oh, yes it was Rick Scott .. who received his millions from questionable Medicare billings etc..

dawnnikol I thought I saw they want to eliminate outside contractors too. Cut every corner they can.


I do also think even today's contractors do not always pay their employees well..

I don't have a strong opinion or enough of an understanding of the intention for further privatization of veteran healthcare at this time to comment..

I do have a strong opinion that military BAH has gotten so far out of control, I would LOVE to see it dialed back. Significant year over year increases, while the rest of the country faces wage stagnation. Additionally BAH isn't taxable. In some states, it isn't used in the Child Support Calculation. Even if it isn't cut, my belief is that it should be taxed, and it should figure into child support calculations in every state.

Putting my zip in, an E1 (E2 is an all but automatic promotion in 6 months - so zero experience or responsibility), with zero dependents is entitled to a tax free $2,200 for BAH. Goes up to $2800 if you have dependents. This is in addition to Base Pay ($2017), and BAS ($460) if you're getting BAH you're getting BAS.) So, a person with less than 6 months work experience, and no responsibility other than to show up is making $4677/mo day one. Half of it is tax free. This is with free healthcare, dental, 30 day vaca, plus holidays and holiday schedule etc, a retirement in 20 years is there if they want it. 

Ironically, the crusty vets I know are all about whining that "burger flippers want $15/hour." Hell, privates (again, no experience, no education required, and no responsibility) are pulling in over $20, if they work 30 days of the month, 8 hours a day. Plus benefits and the tax free BAH! $51k a year, plus benefits...

Here's a little calculator if you are interested in comparing to your area.
Surely someone will say "ohhhhhh but usually privates are in the barracks!!" Yep, true, and sometimes people of higher rank choose to live in housing, forgoing BAH. We are still looking at paying privates $24k plus covering their food, housing (including utilities and maintenance), training and benefits. But that's not what the post I quoted is talking about, it is about dialing back BAH.. Just wanted to throw it out there in case anyone is interested in the real numbers.

themilitarywallet.com/bah-rates/

I'm all for taking care of our military, but this is taxpayer money. It should be more in line with the pay people paying them are receiving. 

  Any chance your Dad or his friends are rated 40% or more disabled? That’s who will be affected with congruent retirement pay and va pay. Once you’re 40% disabled, your retirement and va pay split, giving the retiree more money. That’s what they are targeting. Because my DH is 100% disabled he will lose $2000 a month.

 We’re lucky that when we planned our retirement before my DH was rated 100%. Even saying that, losing $2000 a month will be a nasty blow. If it happens at least we’re prepared. There will be a lot of veterans who won’t be that rely heavily on that congruent pay structure 

just wanted to say that we all have a stake in what the govt does and finding your father's sweet spot is smart.

That's why whenever anyone wants me to vote for that useless dangerous man, I only say "I'm sorry. I have enormous respect for our prisoners of war and would consider it a slap in the face of anyone who was or will be a POW to vote for him."

It doesn't really change anyone's mind but it makes for some long awkward moments.