More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
YgramulTheMany on
So they aren’t getting shit. They’re getting their own money they were already supposed to receive.
bbycutiepiex on
So the warrior dividend isn’t some new magic bonus just taking housing subsidy money Congress already okayed and slapping a sexy name on it. Classic vibe shift over substance.
michkennedy on
Completely on brand.
Beneficial-Long-7033 on
Knew it.
Trump never does a simple good thing. Everything he does that isn’t morally reprehensible either profits him directly or harms a separate program/people. Everything he does must come with a catch. It’s impossible for him to just do something good for the American people, without any strings attached.
His supporters won’t see it as that, of course. They’ll rebrand it as “resourcefulness” or “effective resource management” or something. You never know with those idiots.
TintedApostle on
and the troop subsidy is due to spending the barracks money on trumps wall and border crap
Gabarne on
Pretty much Trump’s 2nd term in a nutshell.
Claiming victories and accomplishments without actually having done shit.
encrypted-signals on
Republicans verbally dick ride the military so much it’s pornographic. Might as well line up all the soldiers and take turns smoking their logs.
Toadfinger on
Warriors have honor. Trump intends to destroy everything honorable about the military.
Late-Dingo-8567 on
what else is new?
jstank2 on
I have zero clue what they mean. Are they getting an extra one time payment of BAH, are they coding it as a BAH payment or is it just the BAH.
The article was pretty unclear about it.
TerrifierBlood on
Lmfao. He really isn’t giving them shit.
AINonsense on
Damn, the gold paint hardly had time to dry before it flaked off that con.
accountabilitycounts on
Scamming the troops. Who’d a thunk it.
putsch80 on
Lot of dealerships around bases are going to offer Dodge Chargers for $1,776 down and have a 17.76% APR on the note.
RadicalOrganizer on
Haha holy shit.
Am_Deer on
I am a veteran and union member. I am constantly shocked at the mental gymnastics my colleagues do to justify the crap going on. This will be celebrated as a win even tho it’s a net loss.
When Congress approved our union contract they voted separately for sick days. The sick days were shot down. Needed 60 votes. 50 Dems voted to give them and 5 republicans. It fell short by 5 votes. The narrative at work was “the Dems fucked us. “
oh-shazbot on
figures they aren’t really getting anything. there’s basically no more money to steal to bribe people with so they just keep shifting around the money they’ve already stolen. america is the new ponzi scheme.
not-a-troller on
Wait, a subsidy? Isn’t that communist socialism. What’s next. Fighting a war to invade another country?
Moritasgus2 on
Anyone in the military that can say whether people see through this BS or buy into it?
AdHopeful3801 on
Putting the Trump name on someone else’s work – and taking a cut – sounds perfectly on brand.
PuzzledRun7584 on
Leading the US headlong into war, as evidenced by actions and “war” rebranding.
DrBunsonHoneyPoo on
Did anyone expect anything else?
SirRichardLove on
It’s the sake shit they always get. What a piece of shit loser.
judgejuddhirsch on
Dividends are taxed as income.
mcampo84 on
Wait, is this fuck stick describing BAH? As an, “we have to house our military in places they can’t even attempt to afford, so here’s a stipend for housing?”
azelll on
One nation under Fraud
llamaryder on
But wait, dear leader said these checks are coming from the tariff accounts, not diverted congressionally approved funding. You don’t think he lied to the American public, do you? /s
ThaiJohnnyDepp on
I see the W-word and assume that it’s got Hegseth’s fingerprints on it
der_innkeeper on
Ah…
So, its Misappropriation of Funds, again.
Yay, more criming.
Fantastic_Shaman9230 on
If I was a MAGA soldier I would feel pretty stupid lol
Total-Mushroom-9614 on
Just wait til they explain about the civilian 2000$ ‘dividend’ and it turns out to be a tax credit applicable only if x….y…
They don’t have any EXTRA money. That’s all lies. So they are trying to package up some crap they have already slid through Congress as some sort of ‘bonus’ for the people from all this winning that we are doing.
Meanwhile the bank account is draining fast.
Kind_Manufacturer_97 on
Put grandpa to bed ffs
epicredditdude1 on
So Trump basically hijacked a congressionally approved payment to service members to gain a political advantage.
In any normal administration this would be a huge scandal, but in Trump world we just have to accept this as normal.
Wild_Read9062 on
Interesting that supporting the troops means, ‘good luck getting a place to live in this market while serving the military.’
As a vet, I know most vets won’t blink an eye and some will even appreciate it, because you learn to expect little or nothing.
Gotta hand it to this administration and the Republicans. Always finding a way to stiff the people they claim to support while getting them to believe they actually support them better than anyone in the world.
slothcough on
Dipshit dictator can’t even bribe the military right to ensure they prop up his facist regime
Ok-Wealth-7322 on
Trump’s trifecta of laughably transparent cons:
(1) Take credit for something good that someone else did, and slap his branding all over it.
(2) Blame someone else for something bad that he did, insisting that it is the fault of some other 3rd party and he’s powerless to change it.
(3) Create a problem and sell a half-assed fix that still leaves the other party worse off than before Trump got involved.
Ihathreturd on
So they’re not getting anything.
True_Dog_4098 on
Trump is trying to buy off the soldiers that will be taking illegal orders.
throwaway1601900 on
And MAGA is too stupid to understand that.
UltraSPARC on
Hell ya. The best thing you get with this president is a middle finger. Nothing more. Nothing less. And you will like it.
kc3x on
3 billion is now 1.5 billion…
This 1.5b is now taxed unlike before.
Will the other 1.5 goto Housing now to fix the black mold?
Resident_String_5174 on
I bet he has his signature printed on them so they feel indebted to the dear leader
ro536ud on
Now they have to pay taxes on this money bc Trump is doing it this way. Trump fucks over the military once again
theawesomedanish on
Maybe part of the problem is branding.
If someone on the left started framing social liberal policies as warrior values, they’d probably gain traction in the US.
“A true warrior doesn’t discriminate, he rises above it”
“A true warrior looks out for ALL his people”.
“A true warrior understands the systemic injustices facing his fellow Americans and refuses to exploit them”.
Strength, discipline, honor, responsibility, those aren’t right-wing values.
They’ve just been marketed that way.
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More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
So they aren’t getting shit. They’re getting their own money they were already supposed to receive.
So the warrior dividend isn’t some new magic bonus just taking housing subsidy money Congress already okayed and slapping a sexy name on it. Classic vibe shift over substance.
Completely on brand.
Knew it.
Trump never does a simple good thing. Everything he does that isn’t morally reprehensible either profits him directly or harms a separate program/people. Everything he does must come with a catch. It’s impossible for him to just do something good for the American people, without any strings attached.
His supporters won’t see it as that, of course. They’ll rebrand it as “resourcefulness” or “effective resource management” or something. You never know with those idiots.
and the troop subsidy is due to spending the barracks money on trumps wall and border crap
Pretty much Trump’s 2nd term in a nutshell.
Claiming victories and accomplishments without actually having done shit.
Republicans verbally dick ride the military so much it’s pornographic. Might as well line up all the soldiers and take turns smoking their logs.
Warriors have honor. Trump intends to destroy everything honorable about the military.
what else is new?
I have zero clue what they mean. Are they getting an extra one time payment of BAH, are they coding it as a BAH payment or is it just the BAH.
The article was pretty unclear about it.
Lmfao. He really isn’t giving them shit.
Damn, the gold paint hardly had time to dry before it flaked off that con.
Scamming the troops. Who’d a thunk it.
Lot of dealerships around bases are going to offer Dodge Chargers for $1,776 down and have a 17.76% APR on the note.
Haha holy shit.
I am a veteran and union member. I am constantly shocked at the mental gymnastics my colleagues do to justify the crap going on. This will be celebrated as a win even tho it’s a net loss.
When Congress approved our union contract they voted separately for sick days. The sick days were shot down. Needed 60 votes. 50 Dems voted to give them and 5 republicans. It fell short by 5 votes. The narrative at work was “the Dems fucked us. “
figures they aren’t really getting anything. there’s basically no more money to steal to bribe people with so they just keep shifting around the money they’ve already stolen. america is the new ponzi scheme.
Wait, a subsidy? Isn’t that communist socialism. What’s next. Fighting a war to invade another country?
Anyone in the military that can say whether people see through this BS or buy into it?
Putting the Trump name on someone else’s work – and taking a cut – sounds perfectly on brand.
Leading the US headlong into war, as evidenced by actions and “war” rebranding.
Did anyone expect anything else?
It’s the sake shit they always get. What a piece of shit loser.
Dividends are taxed as income.
Wait, is this fuck stick describing BAH? As an, “we have to house our military in places they can’t even attempt to afford, so here’s a stipend for housing?”
One nation under Fraud
But wait, dear leader said these checks are coming from the tariff accounts, not diverted congressionally approved funding. You don’t think he lied to the American public, do you? /s
I see the W-word and assume that it’s got Hegseth’s fingerprints on it
Ah…
So, its Misappropriation of Funds, again.
Yay, more criming.
If I was a MAGA soldier I would feel pretty stupid lol
Just wait til they explain about the civilian 2000$ ‘dividend’ and it turns out to be a tax credit applicable only if x….y…
They don’t have any EXTRA money. That’s all lies. So they are trying to package up some crap they have already slid through Congress as some sort of ‘bonus’ for the people from all this winning that we are doing.
Meanwhile the bank account is draining fast.
Put grandpa to bed ffs
So Trump basically hijacked a congressionally approved payment to service members to gain a political advantage.
In any normal administration this would be a huge scandal, but in Trump world we just have to accept this as normal.
Interesting that supporting the troops means, ‘good luck getting a place to live in this market while serving the military.’
As a vet, I know most vets won’t blink an eye and some will even appreciate it, because you learn to expect little or nothing.
Gotta hand it to this administration and the Republicans. Always finding a way to stiff the people they claim to support while getting them to believe they actually support them better than anyone in the world.
Dipshit dictator can’t even bribe the military right to ensure they prop up his facist regime
Trump’s trifecta of laughably transparent cons:
(1) Take credit for something good that someone else did, and slap his branding all over it.
(2) Blame someone else for something bad that he did, insisting that it is the fault of some other 3rd party and he’s powerless to change it.
(3) Create a problem and sell a half-assed fix that still leaves the other party worse off than before Trump got involved.
So they’re not getting anything.
Trump is trying to buy off the soldiers that will be taking illegal orders.
And MAGA is too stupid to understand that.
Hell ya. The best thing you get with this president is a middle finger. Nothing more. Nothing less. And you will like it.
3 billion is now 1.5 billion…
This 1.5b is now taxed unlike before.
Will the other 1.5 goto Housing now to fix the black mold?
I bet he has his signature printed on them so they feel indebted to the dear leader
Now they have to pay taxes on this money bc Trump is doing it this way. Trump fucks over the military once again
Maybe part of the problem is branding.
If someone on the left started framing social liberal policies as warrior values, they’d probably gain traction in the US.
“A true warrior doesn’t discriminate, he rises above it”
“A true warrior looks out for ALL his people”.
“A true warrior understands the systemic injustices facing his fellow Americans and refuses to exploit them”.
Strength, discipline, honor, responsibility, those aren’t right-wing values.
They’ve just been marketed that way.