Vivek Ramaswamy wants to start DOGE cuts by eliminating funding for unauthorized programs – including veteran healthcare

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1. Oh did the veterans that voted for Trump actually think Republicans give a shit about them

2. It’s strange that Trump didn’t run on cutting veterans’ health care, and yet, here we are.

3. is he going to be deported by Agenda47? and did I just get tricked into the racist indoctrination where I say things like “is he going to be deported”? Oh my god they got me

4. Get ready for yet another chorus of “well, I voted for Trump but I didn’t vote for this!” from the crowd who’s apparently been in a stupor for the past 2 years.

5. Does he know what the word “unauthorized” means?

6. They are going to kill off all the social safety nets while giving a bunch of new tax cuts for the richest 1%.  How is that economy feeling America?

7. In order to submit your information, you have to be Blue-Checkmarked on X, the whole thing is an illegal scam to drive traffic to X — you know, the hateful alt-right echo chamber. (a) No thanks (b) That’s probably illegal.

8. The evidence of how the Republicans feel about funding the VA was there long before Trump showed up.

9. As a reminder to everyone who’s forgotten by now, Steve Bannon was a guy who (a) stripped down companies and sold the pieces for profit (b) had mining farms of people overseas making World of Warcraft gold, which he then sold for cash on MtGox until it collapsed into bankruptcy. And if you’re asking “Who is Steve Bannon?” then you are not high-IQ enough to even be reading this.

10. Is this the support Republicans claim to have for our troops?

11. I can’t even care at this point. I just have to hope my family and friends are ok.

12. is DOGE an authorized program Vivek?

13. Thank you all you MAGA supporters who voted for The Fat Orange One. No, seriously thank you. You just fucked, fucked, fucked all of us. I hope you’re fucking happy. Better not fucking come crying when you realize what you did. We all now have to lie in the bed that you made.

14. They’re set to dismantle all the social safety nets while dishing out more tax cuts. How’s that economy working out for you.?

15. Veterans are suckers and losers, according to the president-elect. So, this is simply giving the voters what they voted for.

16. Pathetic. Abandoning people who served this country is about as low as it gets

17. This is a really really dumb idea. Cutting veteran healthcare will make veterans hate you even more.

    And god forbid if they go after social security…that would be one of the worst ideas…

18. BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I am a vet with many veteran coworkers. All of the ones that I know voted for Trump frequently use the VA for healthcare. I don’t wish this to happen, but I’m going to laugh my ass off in their faces if it turns out as bad as the media makes it.

19. Always surprises me that vets and those in the military so often support the republicans. Yeah I get the whole 2A and interest in it. But repeatedly they either do not support or actively vote against measures to assist vets. Talk about voting against one’s own interest.

    On top of that you have a draft dodger trump. Who has insulted those in the military, those hurt and captured. And yet he somehow is their guy. What an utter joke.

20. “why did no one warn us about all of the shitty things trump was gonna do”- a phrase you will hear from a lot of people over the next 4 years

21. Pouring gasoline and lighting a match to a country over $6 eggs is certainly gonna something for the history books.

22. If I lose my VA payments and my overtime, my family will lose our house.

    Like this is going to be the reality for everyone and no one in my life seems to know or care.

23. Yes, because nothing says, “government efficiency” quite like creating a new, fictitious government agency and immediately staffing it with your best friends! Another smooth brain move that the brainwashed masses will love.

    This department IS an unauthorized government department, you fucking morons! Only congress can create a new department. Start by eliminating yourselves!

24. I’m a vet and I didn’t vote for Trump or his stupid agendas. I’ve openly stated that any vet who did vote for this dipshitis a traitor to their brothers and sisters in arms, not just for this, but for the way Trump disparages us at every opportunity. Fuck these people. I use veterans healthcare and I still hope these traitors get what they deserve.

25. I’m going to sit back and enjoy my drink while people like my FIL, a Q Anon Trump ass kisser, digest how they served their country and are being rewarded with this.

    It was only supposed to hurt everyone else, not me! Wah wah wah.

    You get what you voted for.

26. The wild part of his statements is that, at least as quoted, he doesn’t give himself the plausible deniability of threatening to cut these programs in order to spur Congress to reauthorize them through legislation, because on its face, it does seem somewhat neglectful, and potentially wasteful, to have expired programs receive funding. Instead it sure sounds like he wants to take a hatchet to any unauthorized budget, no questions asked.

    What I bet will happen is, they’ll cut all these programs, including veterans’ healthcare, everyone will freak out, the GOP Congress will hastily reinstate those programs that perform best with their voters, and those voters will magically forget it ever happened. Rinse, lather, repeat.

27. All you Trump voters. Enjoy your work.

28. I got my honorable discharge in 2001, and there’s no way I could re-up with my injuries, so I went to college instead.

    And holy fucking shit, did I dodge a bullet (pun intended). These fuckers don’t give a flying hoot about vets, and not only are they giving us the middle finger here; they’re happily offering to fuck us up the ass.

    Gee Vivek, go to your nearest VA and spout this bullshit in the lobby. In fact, go to your local MEPS office and tell all the new guys this too. See if they’re still motivated after realizing what they’re signing up for; and for who.

    From one Marine to Vivek; you can eat my c*ck starting from the back door.

29. DOGE is not a fucking authorized program. Congress has not funded it. Fuck this guy and Elon, who has gotten massively richer over this.

30. Unauthorized? Abraham Lincoln would argue that since the Dept of Vet affairs was started on his order

31. trump demanding personal loyalty from the military while taking away their healthcare is certainly a choice

32. There you go Vets. That guy is in charge of your funding. That guy. A president that calls you losers and suckers would put THAT guy in charge of your money. It’s all proposed at this point. Could be a troll. But still, even if it’s that, this president-elect is screwing around with your legacy with THAT guy.

33. My dumbass boomer father just screwed himself. He was pissed off at Joe Biden’s taxes taking his money away every year. So he voted for Trump. So, soon he’ll be paying Trump’s higher taxes and loosing VA medical care at 84.

    Yes, I tried to warn him about the face eating leopard. Yes. you would be correct that he had an equally thoughtless and unresearched answer to why the leopard would never eat his face.

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