Veterans Voted Trump. Now Trump’s VA Is Kicking Out the Ladder.
Politically POMP Brief
There’s a meme going around from LeopardsAteMyFace showing 2024 exit polls: veterans went for Trump 65% to 34% over Harris. Veterans: Trump +31.
And now those same veterans are getting a very real reminder that elections are policy, not vibes.
Last year, the Trump administration killed a VA mortgage rescue program that was designed to keep veterans from losing their homes if they fell behind on payments after Covid‑era forbearance. It let the VA step in, buy up the defaulted loan, and give vets a new, affordable payment instead of a foreclosure notice.
When they shut it down, they didn’t replace it with anything that actually works as well. The result: thousands of veterans have already lost their homes, and tens of thousands more are stuck in delinquency or staring down foreclosure with fewer protections than civilian borrowers. Lenders got clarity. Veterans got the boot.
You don’t have to love Harris or the Democrats to see the pattern here. Veterans were courted as patriotic props, wrapped in flags and “thank you for your service” speeches, and then quietly stripped of one of the strongest housing safety nets they had. That’s not populism. That’s using people and tossing them aside when the cameras move on.
If you’re a veteran who pulled the lever for Trump in 2024, this is the fine print on the back of the red hat.