Trump cuts Homeless Vets Funding!!! Where are the "real" Americans?

The car magnet myth pushed by Republicans for military families votes has now been exposed as a complete and cruel lie…but will they notice? Probably not:

WISN: A letter from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs released Friday announced that federal funding for Cottage 16, which houses 28 homeless veterans in Union Grove, has been eliminated and that it will close in 2018.

“As part of an ongoing evolution of federal housing programs, federal funding has been eliminated for our Veteran Housing and Recovery Programs (VHRPs) at King and Union Grove,” the letter reads. “

Veteran Kelly Manderfield completed three tours Iraq with the Wisconsin Army National Guard. He’s coping with post-traumatic stress disorder and has been living at Cottage 16 for the past three months. He said he’s working to get back on his feet and Cottage 16 is helping him do just that. 

“It’s kind of devastating because there is talk about ending homelessness for vets and now they are closing down these programs. I don’t know beyond Wisconsin how far the cuts are going but it’s not good.”

President Obama desperately tried to support new housing and health alternatives for homeless veterans, but now it looks like Trump cut that too:

Prevent and End Chronic Homelessness in 2017: President Obama’s 2016 Budget demonstrates his deep commitment to ending homelessness. The Budget makes investments needed to end chronic homelessness in 2017, make significant progress toward ending homelessness among families, children and youth in 2020,

The Budget calls for the investments needed to end chronic homelessness in 2017. As part of an overall investment of $2.5 billion in HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Programs, the Budget calls for the resources to create 25,500 new units of permanent supportive housing—the proven, cost-effective solution to chronic homelessness. Shortfalls in the most recent budget passed by Congress have forced us to move the national goal to end chronic homelessness from 2015 to 2017.

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