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

[BumRushDaShow]

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/

[republianmushroom]

1. Live and learn, dudes.

And they trusted the convicted felon.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Sympathy, dudes.

It's in the dictionary.

[Captain Zero]

4. Between shit and trump

NT

[BaronChocula]

10. Favorite phrase of my cousin

who is also a veteran.

[atreides1]

28. Yes it is

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

[Duncanpup]

29. Brilliantly said.

May I use your quote.

[travelingthrulife]

3. He called you "suckers and losers" and is a felon...why did you vote for him?

[we can do it]

5. FAFO idiots get what you voted for.

[Mysterian]

7. Only an estimated 60% of vets voted for Trump

You shouldn't lump them all together like that.

[Meadowoak]

14. That's 60% too many.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

23. I'm glad to be one of the 40%.

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]

6. How did they warm up to an asshole that calls them suckers and losers

They expected something else?

[BaronChocula]

11. They're white nationalists

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]

8. This week

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]

31. He also said they can refuse treatment for Republicans,

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

[howardmappel]

9. FAFO

[usonian]

12. He has ALWAYS hated and derided military and veterans.

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

Fucking Private Pyle.

[Bluejeans]

13. As a military retiree and disabled veteran, I've wondered for years why so many veterans vote for conservatives

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]

16. Any one in the military or retired military.

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]

21. I don't think that any candidate has tried to address the military directly. In the USCG, like the rest of the military

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.

[Clouds Passing]

15. Leopards

[orleans]

17. too fucking bad, ain't it? ya'll thought you were the big

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]

18. I'm one of them...

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

[dlk]

19. Trump has openly and continually disrespected our troops and vets

Who did they think they were voting for?

[Scalded Nun]

20. Sorry...No respect for any Vet who voted for a treasonous felon who tried to overturn the government by force.

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]

22. No one held a gun to your head on voting for Trump so deal with it as you get no sympathy from me.

[mwooldri]

24. The turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving...

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

[Trueblue Texan]

25. Come on. TSF didn't turn his back on veterans.

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.

[Botany]

26. Burp

[Passages]

27. Trump a phony? nah

[Hotler]

30. Those Vets turned their back on America when they voted for him. No whining. nt

[travelingthrulife]

32. Wait until they find out he is single-handedly trying to make them fodder in another Middle East war.