Education and Benefits

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