Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it

He's never respected troops. His father didn't respect service members either. It was a big part of the falling out between Fred Trump and Fred Jr. Fred Trump looked down on Jr for wanting to serve in the Air Force.

He reportedly called fallen soldiers "suckers and losers." Absolutely no one should be shocked that his administration's policies treated living veterans with the exact same level of blatant contempt.

Happy for all of them that voted for him. How any veteran could vote for someone who not only was a draft dodger but besmirched the military in every way possible is beyond me.

My sympathies to any affected vets who voted for Kamala Harris.

Classic "thank you for your service" followed by a swift kick to the teeth. It’s wild how we spend billions on overseas conflicts but can’t find the pocket change to keep a vet in their living room. The VA basically told these guys, "Glad you survived the IED, but good luck surviving this interest rate." It’s peak irony—fighting for a country that won't even fight for your mortgage. Imagine coming home from a tour just to get outmaneuvered by a bunch of suits and a spreadsheet. Absolutely soul-crushing.

At happy hour later today the local Veterans Center parking lot will be packed with vehicles plastered with trump flags and stickers. I love the lifted Ram Truck with the F**K Kamala flag on 1 side, the Eagle,Globe, and Anchor Flag on the other side. I guarantee for some it's a Leopards Eating Faces buffet.

The child rapist had a photoshoot at Arlington and harassed the service people there. America made him a billionaire. Clown country. 🤡🇺🇸

He did say that veterans are 'suckers and losers'....

American veterans overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

Its almost fascinating to witness, how they scrap every possible fund for their own benefit. Doesn't matter if its something that could benefit veterans, benefit sick or injured people, hungry people, homeless, research, or protecting wildlife. Doesn't matter how little these funds are compared to a single missile being lobed at Iran right now. As long as you do not directly benefit these oligarchs you are worthless. When do citizens realize that? They pay taxes on everything but get nothing in return.

But go die in a useless war for us. How many times do soldiers have to get fucked over by Republicans before they realize they are just expendable pieces?

As a vet, f*** all the vets that voted for him. Scumbags, the lot of them.

One aspect of my job is taking veterans to parks, hiking, fishing, stuff like that. My contact at the VA, who works in their mental health dept. and is himself a veteran, called me up a couple weeks ago to tell me they are facing restructuring and his program is in danger of going on pause. This is on top of layoffs/ cutbacks they had a year or two ago. It’s really shitty to see so much fake support for veterans from “leaders” who are overseeing these vital programs being cut.

The Oval Orange strikes again. Horrible behavior and will end up costing taxpayers a lot down the line. Sad for the vets affected by this.

I'm a veteran who receives VA benefits. I also cannot fathom how any veteran could support Trump. It is abundantly clear that Trump and those in the Project 2025 orbit don't care in the slightest about veterans. In fact, they'd like to save a buck at the expense of folks who are barely making it, all while further enriching the already extremely rich. It's wealth transfer, from the working class, to the elites. Veteran's issues aside, this administration is as anti-American as any in modern American history. The manner in which ICE treats people is simply un-American. That sort of behavior is not how we act in this nation. It's basically brownshirt street thuggery. And, the examples just go on and on. If you love America, then supporting the current administration is supporting people seeking to destroy it.

I've ranked some of his voters from stupidest on down (or up). Guess who's number one? The military (active duty/veterans). They signed up (ostensibly) to serve their country and defend what it stands for, and they voted for someone who hates the country and what it stands for, and who hates them and has said so. He's disrespected military protocols. He's disrespected (now former) allies who our soldiers have served with. By all logic and sense, he should be *despised* by everyone in the military. *Yet here we are*. Now some of them are in Iran, putting their lives on the line and occasionally dying, for no good reason. Not to protect America from an actual threat but to what, distract the government and the American people from all the underage girls he assaulted? To keep him from facing consequences for his crimes for another day? And they're having to sit there listen to this loser Hegseth cosplaying "Army man," yelling about shit he doesn't understand and insulting American heroes with decades of experience. And a lot of them would vote for him again, that's the best part, assuming they survive the conflict.

Wait until you hear about the Dept of Education.

How any veteran supports him or this administration is a mystery. How much more evidence do they require before you say “Yeah he doesn’t give a shit about us”?

[They overwhelming voted for this](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/) and this is after he called them losers, FAFO. The shitty part is they voted the felon back in and now the world is suffering because of it.

Sounds prime for a class action lawsuit. The article reports that Trump’s Department of Veterans Affairs abruptly killed the only realistic rescue option (VASP) for thousands of struggling veteran homeowners, causing foreclosures to spike, and that the VA’s stated reasons for ending it collapse under basic policy and math scrutiny. ==What the article says== - VASP (VA Servicing Purchase Program) let the VA buy delinquent VA loans from mortgage companies, then give vets new low-interest VA-held mortgages (around 2.5%) so they could catch up and keep their homes. - This program was created after a prior VA blunder stranded roughly 40,000 vets who took pandemic forbearance at VA’s direction but then had no affordable way to become current. - Once fully running, VASP saved on the order of 30,000+–33,000 veteran households from foreclosure by replacing their unaffordable loans with stable, low-rate mortgages. - Despite that success and with nearly 90,000 VA loans seriously delinquent (over 10,000 already lost to foreclosure), Trump’s VA shut VASP down in 2025 and has left a large gap before any replacement takes effect. - The only main alternative now is standard “modifications” that often double the interest rate (for example from roughly 3% to about 6.8%), pushing monthly payments up by hundreds of dollars, which many vets simply cannot afford. - The result is concrete: people like Jerome Thomas see their payment jump by about $800 a month and then fall behind again, moving straight toward foreclosure, and the article documents families whose homes have already been taken and even resold. ==The VA’s stated justification== From this and earlier NPR reporting about the same decision, the VA has framed its reasoning roughly as follows: - VASP was described as a temporary, emergency, pandemic-era or “fix-the-blunder” program that was never meant to be permanent.   - Officials claim they need to “transition” to a more conventional system, often pointing to forthcoming legislation or a new program that will supposedly align VA options with those available in the broader mortgage market.   - They imply that ending VASP is fiscally prudent and operationally necessary, suggesting that continuing it indefinitely would be too costly, complex, or outside the original statutory intent of the VA loan guaranty program.   - The VA also leans on the existence of “other options” (ordinary modifications, repayment plans, deferrals) as though these are adequate to protect veterans until the new program is ready. ==Why that justification is bad== 1. **It treats a self-inflicted crisis as an excuse, not an obligation**      - VA itself created the mess by prematurely killing the earlier post-forbearance option in 2022, which is what pushed tens of thousands of veterans into delinquency in the first place.    - VASP was literally the fix to VA’s own policy failure, and it was working; calling it “temporary” doesn’t change the fact that the agency had a continuing duty to maintain an effective fix until something equally protective was in place. 2. **It ignores actual outcomes in favor of theory**      - On paper, VA can say “we still offer modifications,” but in practice those mods often more than double a veteran’s interest rate and add hundreds of dollars a month to the payment.    - A “solution” that predictably produces unaffordable payments is not a real solution; the foreclosure numbers (over 10,000 homes already lost, about 90,000 loans seriously delinquent) are empirical proof that the menu of options without VASP is failing. 3. **The timing argument is backwards: they removed the bridge before the new road exists**      - VA ended VASP months before any replacement is ready, leaving a known high‑risk population exposed during the gap.    - A responsible agency would overlap the old and new programs and only turn off the old one once the replacement is live and clearly working; VA did the opposite, then asks vets to trust that “something better” is coming later.   4. **The fiscal prudence claim is shallow and likely false even on cost grounds**      - Foreclosures are expensive for everyone: families lose equity, neighborhoods suffer, and the government (which guarantees these VA loans) often takes losses when homes are repossessed and resold.    - VASP restructures loans to sustainable payments and keeps vets in their homes, which typically reduces claim losses and long‑run costs compared with repeated defaults and foreclosures; shutting it down and absorbing larger foreclosure losses is the opposite of true stewardship.   5. **It creates inequity between veterans and civilian borrowers**      - The article notes that without VASP, veterans with VA-backed loans now have *worse* options than many FHA or conventional borrowers, especially when it comes to deferring missed payments to the end of the loan or keeping their original low rate.    - VA’s mission is to give service members a **better** path to homeownership, not a structurally worse one; using “alignment” with the broader market as cover for cutting a uniquely protective tool contradicts that mission.   6. **It hand-waves away veterans already trapped in bad modifications**       - Even when VA talks about its forthcoming program, it explicitly does not promise to fix the veterans who, under pressure, already accepted high-rate modifications after VASP was shut.    - That means the people most injured by VA’s decision are written off as collateral damage, which is ethically indefensible given that they followed VA’s guidance at each step.   7. **It rejects an obviously successful, targeted program without a concrete, superior alternative**      - VASP demonstrably worked: roughly 30k+ households saved, with affordable fixed rates that match the original promise of the VA loan program.    - Killing a proven, targeted fix while only gesturing at a future solution is policy malpractice; it inverts the burden of proof, forcing veterans to pay the price while VA experiments.

Keep voting R you clowns. 

same group that overwhelmingly voted for him

My 35 year old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor in September of 2024. He had just purchased his first house earlier that year in February using his VA loan benefit. His workplace was great- he received short term disability and was granted FMLA. He had surgery (the tumor was large but benign) and was in rehab for 6 weeks. In the meantime, we researched and discovered VASP. His mortgage servicer was fantastic and although having the late payments hurt his credit (like most programs to help with mortgages, nothing can happen until you are 90 days late and about to enter foreclosure), they were fast and efficient in helping him navigate the process. By March he was back to work and had closed on a new loan at 2.5% which is manageable and $400 less per month than his previous mortgage. We were prepared to pay his mortgage, it would have been tight, but we could afford it, although not indefinitely. He is a Navy vet, an RP who worked at Walter Reed and went to Haiti after the earthquake. He spoke to vets in the hospital who were missing limbs. He worked with the chaplains to comfort parents and spouses through unimaginable loss and grief. The sights in Haiti were profoundly disturbing and to this day are difficult for him to talk about. He did everything right. He worked and saved and served and used his VA benefits to buy his house. VASP helped him through a terrible time, knowing he wasn't going to lose his house or have to depend on his parents to make his payments lessened the stress and helped him heal. But I guess deporting the 65 year old roofer or incarcerating 7 year old children is more important to some people.

And most of them will continue to vote for republicans despite of this

Trump, Elon and the DOGE Bros did this with their deep cuts to programs. People running and working for these programs across the country warned this would happen. Remember, Trump administration has caused more homeless veterans. Just recently, reports that Trump wants to round up homeless veterans and essentially have the federal government become their conservator.

'tis what the vets voted for

Never doubted for a second he called service members and vets ‘suckers and losers’. any that still voted for and supported him have done nothing but validated his statement/belief

This is also the Trump administration that had the VA change their policy to award 0% disability if you're given meds or therapy for your condition. "Ok, you have no legs, right...right... *but you seem to be using prosthetics and a cane*. In our opinion you're 'cured' and do not warrant your benefits anymore. I SAID GOOD DAY. YOU GET NOTHING."

60% of veterans voted for Trump.

Commander Bone Spurs strikes again!

Is that the program they pulled funds from to give service members their $1776 bonus (or whatever the amount was)?

NPR should have asked both of the families that gave anecdotes who they voted for.

Housing is too woke. Warriors don't need houses, only losers and weaklings require shelter. (/s obviously)

And most of them voted for him.

My heart bleeds hard for the ones that had a "Vets For Trump" sign taped to their apartment window. /s

So even those who managed to achieve parts of the American dream are having that stripped from them

Is this “supporting our troops,” conservatives? Trump views military men and women as suckers. Always has.

Bunch of suckers and losers…. or something like that. And it’s amazing how many of them keep posting pro-Trump c*** on social media.

don't worry. they'll vote for him anyways.

Have the day you voted for

On brand for someone who thinks vets are suckers and losers

The troops voted for this.

This is the first I’m hearing about it. Super shitty because there is a fee that is part of the VA loan that basically secures the guarantee they are referencing in the article. For my house it was nearly 7 grand(it’s like 2.5% for every 100k) to pay for a protection that I no longer get.

It's amazing that veterans, who are paid the most per capita of all welfare recipients, overwhelmingly voted for this.

Well he hates vets.

Soldiers are objects - property - to him, not people. And he thinks they deserve whatever happens to them.

Funny how GOP went from “support the troops” to “abort the troops” 🤣

Winning. More winning than ever before. Biggidie

Trump really does want to f*** everyone before he leaves office, doesn't he?

Is there anyone not alienated by this asinine and cruel regime?

Just remember when you join the army that this or something worse is probably your future. 

Oh that’s terrible

So how is this Obama’s fault

I wonder what percentage of vets voted for Trump?

Didn’t Trump say you had to be a sucker to fight for your country in the military?

Republican leaders love $$$ more than fetuses, veterans, white people, the US, etc.

I’m just I

I mean he's a draft dodger, what do you expect?

Lots of vets voted for this. I hope they enjoy all that winning.

Suckers and losers voted overwhelmingly for the King of Turds; proving definitively, that they are indeed suckers and losers.

I still don't understand why the military seems to like him and continues to do his bidding

Wow that sucks for them. Maybe they shouldn’t have [overwhelmingly supported Trump.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/) Well at least the people they don’t like are also suffering too! Hopefully when they’re sad about losing their homes, it will bring them comfort to know that somewhere, an immigrant child is being ripped from their mom and thrown into a detention facility alone!

Yet most of the military voted for a draft dodger. Nothing makes sense

the freeze worked until Congress and the White House totally screwed up. those vets who didnt use the program are doing decently. this batch of folks have some truly horrible options

I did that!

I am sure there are meritorious cases where help once is all people need, and I am often seeing the worst situations in my field, but I see so many people with 3 to 4 HUD or other massive mortgage (10k+) bailouts recorded who just...keep on not paying their mortgage, even with high incomes.  These are often not, in my view,  saving houses for veterans and others. They are corporate bailouts to give banks money when foreclosure won't pay the full debt. They happen to benefit the recipient by letting them stay in their house a little longer.

And yet the other trained hounds will keep snapping and snarling on his behalf.

Trump supporting troops have to be some of the dumbest people on the planet...

You voted for this

I mean, that's what the MAGA vets and troops voted for, no? What is the problem? This is owning the libs, they should be cheering for this.

Is there a single group (besides the billionaires, of course), that this administration hasn't shafted

Magas do not care

Well, Trump did call U.S. military members losers and suckers. So this tracks.

This is exactly what happens when you put someone in charge who has zero understanding of what veterans actually need. Over 10,000 families have lost their homes because Trump's VA shut down VASP without any replacement ready. These are people who served our country and they're getting evicted through no fault of their own.

All part of the plan. His billionaire buddies and housing conglomerates are rubbing their greedy hands rn

Growing up-if you can’t afford a home you lose it. So much has changed.

MAGA!! We are busy deporting their families so they wont need those homes anyway !!

Will they claim this on their disability % ?

Trump is a piece of shit

Played thereselves

Vets voted for this.

And vets overwhelmingly voted for the dbag...this vet can proudly say I did not vote for the criminal.

Glad I didn’t use my VA loan to buy my house

Suckers and losers gonna vote republican even harder!

No sympathy or respect for most vets because of the way they vote.

Why pander to a voting block that will vote for you no matter what?