Education and Benefits

2025 December

2025-12-18 Trump issued $1776 checks to servicemembers. The funds were reallocated housing funds already intended for military housing.

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4382089/1776-warrior-dividend-tax-free-irs-confirms/

https://www.military.com/feature/2025/12/23/pentagon-uses-military-housing-funds-1776-warrior-dividend.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/trump-warrior-dividend-troops-congress-00697375

https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-dividend-housing-5990b3810a704e46e2b93152253f439c

2026 February

2026-02-27 Pete Hegseth said the US Armed Forces will only support Scouting America if it complies with EO 14173 to end DEI and ban trans kids. He wrote, “Boy scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/scouting-america-transgender-ban-pentagon

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/transgender-youths-are-targeted-in-scouting-america-changes-pushed-by-the-pentagon

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/scouting-america-reaches-accord-with-pentagon-maintain-military-support-2026-02-28/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/27/hegseth-scouting-america/

2026 March

2026-03-01 Pete Hegseth ordered a ban on US troops attending graduate-level programs at Ivy League and other top-tier universities, labelling them “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/pentagon-blocks-troops-from-elite-universities/gm-GMD6C9F8C7?gemSnapshotKey=GMD6C9F8C7-snapshot-5&ocid=NL_PTBR_A1_20200612_1_2

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-pentagon-cutting-ties-with-top-universities-woke/#:~:text=%22Today%2C%20just%20like%20we%20did,degrees%20from%20Princeton%20and%20Harvard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/pentagon-universities-think-tanks.html#:~:text=Pentagon%20to%20Curb%20Ties%20With,and%20fellowships%20at%20those%20universities.

https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-hegseth-order-cancels-military-attendance-more-top-universities-2026-2#:~:text=That%20leaked%20guidance%20noted%20that,war%20college%20could%20be%20targeted.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-bans-military-attending-princeton-columbia-other-elite-universities-wokeness-weakness

2026 June

2026-06-10 Congress proposed more cuts to VA benefits.

https://www.dav.org/learn-more/news/2026/dav-condemns-congressional-proposal-to-cut-disability-benefits-for-1-5-million-veterans/

https://democrats-veterans.house.gov/news/press-releases/veterans-service-organizations-and-veterans-reject-the-largest-veterans-benefits-cut-in-a-generation

2026 October

2026-10-24 Leaked audio revealed the Pentagon will be denying financial support for Navy families evacuated from Bahrain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGMaB1FDiU&list=WL&index=3&t=250s

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/leaked-audio-shows-pentagon-denied-204057376.html

https://www.ms.now/the-assignment/watch/leaked-audio-shows-pentagon-denied-more-financial-support-for-navy-families-evacuated-from-bahrain-2518469187656