Trump’s $1,776 bonus to troops exposed as money already owed for housing: report

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  1. >President Donald Trump announced in his prime time address Wednesday night that he was sending $1,776 checks to more than a million military service members, but a senior administration official confirmed they were already entitled to that money.

    >The president told viewers he was “proud to announce” that “1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call ‘warrior dividend,’ before Christmas,” saying the dollar amount was intended to “honor the nation’s founding” and promised “the checks are already on the way” – but Defense One reported the funds were already being sent out by Congress.

    >“Congress appropriated $2.9 billion to the Department of War to supplement the Basic Allowance for Housing entitlement within The One Big Beautiful Bill,” the senior official said. “Approximately 1.28 million active component military members and 174,000 Reserve component military members will receive this supplement.”

    >In other words, the checks are being taken out of congressionally allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize service members’ housing allowances.

    >Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to “disburse $2.6 billion as a one-time basic allowance for housing supplement” to all eligible service members to help subsidize their basic allowance for housing (BAH), the senior administration official said.

    >“BAH is generally adequate for Army personnel, though not necessarily when the housing market is changing rapidly and dramatically, as it has in recent years,” according to a Rand report from earlier this year. “Furthermore, while our analysis of housing choices and expenditures among military personnel and of their locational amenities points to an overall positive picture with respect to BAH, a substantial, though minority, share of members report dissatisfaction with BAH.”

  2. Its just military housing allowance that they already get. Trump is such a piece of crap

  4. And now they will probably be taxed on it when they weren’t previously. So much winning.

  5. Just like the checks that had to have his name on them.

    I mean, did they say thank you?!?

  6. Anyone else think it was probably more that 1776. Just to prefect if a number.

  9. With a stipulation that when they sign the check, they must obey any and all unlawful constitutional orders or face the firing squad. Rumor has it the ICE temp hires will stand in to man the rifles at the executions.

  10. What a scam bag Trump is, just wants to put his name on something he has no credit taking.

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