{"id":159162,"date":"2024-07-22T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159162"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:25:37","slug":"project-2025-and-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159162","title":{"rendered":"Project 2025 and the VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159163 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pent-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pent-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pent-1.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Five Sided Wind Tunnel<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What does Project 2025 mean for military veterans?<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Project 2025&#8217;s proposals for the VA calls for changes to veteran healthcare eligibility and disability claims.<\/em><br \/>\nPATTY NIEBERG<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Project 2025, a policy guide that could be the blueprint for a second Donald Trump term, would revamp the Department of Veterans of Affairs with proposals to increase privatization, narrow the eligibility criteria for health benefits and replace civil service-style employees with political appointees in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The document begins with an historical summary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, and its current challenges meeting an aging, migrating population of veterans while modernizing and keeping costs within its budget. Chapter 20, which is dedicated to VA reforms, was written by Brooks D. Tucker, former VA Chief of Staff during the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State,\u201d the manual states. \u201cThe VA must continually strive to be recognized as a \u2018best in class,\u2019 \u2018Veteran-centric\u2019 system with an organizational ethos inspired by and accountable to the needs and problems of veterans, not subservient to the parochial preferences of a bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-life\/project-2025-for-military-veterans\/\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project 2025, among other very good ideas, recommends cutting one million Federal jobs with a significant focus on eliminating managerial bureaucracy. Chief among these are the unelected Senior Executive Service (SES) cadre. SES level employees serve in key Government positions just below top Presidential appointees. SES members are the link between these appointees and the Federal workforce and they operate\/oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies. Project 2025 would replace the unaccountable SES&#8217;ers with political appointees.<\/p>\n<p>Other suggestions for the military include lumping Flag Officers in the SES purge, expelling transgender service members and ceasing their service eligibility, reinstating troops separated for refusing to get the COVID jab and rescinding a Defense Department policy that covers the travel costs for troops who need to go out of state for abortions and other reproductive care.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives are predictably, vehemently opposed to anything of the sort and see this as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology instead of reducing the federal bureaucracy and adding accountability. I&#8217;m shocked too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Sided Wind Tunnel What does Project 2025 mean for military veterans? 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