Donald Trump and the GOP have failed to protect military pay as President Obama did during the 2013 shutdown. But that’s not what Pence told our troops deployed overseas.  

“I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops … in danger.”

Republicans refused to protect military pay as they pushed for a government shutdown — a change from President Barack Obama’s move to defend soldiers in 2013.

President Obama made sure the troops got paid during a government shutdown. Why won’t Trump do the same?

As Hawaii panicked, Trump worked on his golf game.

By quickly condemning a bipartisan plan on Thursday to solve the thorny issue of immigration reform, and doing it while using vulgar, racist language to denounce black immigrants arriving in America, Donald Trump continues to increase the odds of a government shutdown next week. He’s also increasing the odds that American troops won’t get paid […]

Donald Trump went golfing nearly 100 times in 2017, but he never found time to visit American troops in combat zones. Now, some American veterans are hitting him hard for ignoring them. Trump boasts about wanting to spend lavishly to increase the military’s budget, but to date he has refused to visit to places like […]

Donald Trump has not given up on his relentless crusade to demonize black football players who kneel in protest of police brutality. He continues to assert, with absolutely no foundation in reality, that the players are somehow insulting U.S. troops. And, not for the first time, he is shamelessly exploiting the grief of a military […]

Donald Trump kicked off the first week of the new year by watching a Fox News clip on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and then casually threatening to nuke him on Twitter with his “bigger button.” It was a stupefying moment that once again revealed Trump has absolutely no concept for the scale or […]

Donald Trump rang in the new year with the abject failure of one of his bigoted policy goals. In July, Trump made a callous move to ban transgender soldiers from the military, seeking to undo a partially implemented directive made by President Barack Obama’s Department of Defense, which would let them serve openly after years […]

Three of America’s largest cities filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense on Tuesday for failing to report service members with criminal convictions to the national background check system for gun licensing and sales. The lawsuit filed by New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia says the the military’s “clearly broken system” allowed Devin […]

With a barren display case of accomplishments this year, Donald Trump has turned to his supposed victory in the imaginary war on Christmas and touts it as perhaps his greatest cultural accomplishment from the Oval Office. Perhaps it makes sense that a guy who skipped the Vietnam War with a sore foot would consider his […]

Universally condemned by veterans’ advocates for moving to demolish a popular $460 million federal program that has helped to reduce the number homelessness among those who have served, the Trump administration has reversed course. “There will be absolutely no change in the funding to support our homeless program,” Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin announced. On […]

Donald Trump, from the outset, cast himself as a champion of veterans, and promised that he would improve veterans care as president. But the toxic right-wing ideology of Trump and his administration has nonetheless seeped into the way they take care of and prioritize veterans. According to Politico, a popular program to house homeless veterans […]

Veterans groups are slamming Donald Trump for blurting out a racial slur during an event on Monday that was supposed to honor Navajo code talkers who served in World War II. Code talkers were a vital part of the war effort, and their work was pivotal in America’s success during confrontations like the Battle of […]

Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on the free press, and on the very of notions of truth and facts, are thoroughly antithetical to the principles of our democracy. And as one four-star general noted plainly and disturbingly, they call into question who we even are overall as a nation. Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, […]

Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving Day thanking himself — starting on Twitter at 6:30 a.m, and worse yet, in a video conference with U.S. troops deployed overseas. “HAPPY THANKSGIVING, your Country is starting to do really well,” his first tweet of the morning began. Trump mentioned several things for which he is grateful to himself, including […]

The Trump administration is working on a plan that would seriously erode the quality and availability of health care for military veterans. Veterans groups are in revolt over the move. The plan by VA Secretary David Shulkin — concocted without congressional input — is to merge the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VA Choice health system […]

The sister of a fallen Marine has written a scathing letter to Donald Trump calling him out for using her brother’s death as political cover for his failing administration. Amber Cox is the sister of Marine Staff Sgt. Robert Cox, one of 16 men who were killed when a Marine Corps transport plane crashed in […]

Donald Trump is so beholden to Russian propaganda that he went so far as to disparage U.S. intelligence agencies on Veterans Day while traveling overseas. When confronted by reporters about Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump had a choice: He could side with U.S. intelligence agencies who overwhelmingly declared that Russia did, in fact, attack […]

Donald Trump has a long and disappointing history of attacking veterans, and he continued that behavior on his first Veterans Day in office. On his way to Vietnam for an economic conference, aboard Air Force One, reporters asked Trump about his campaign’s collusion with Russia, which has already led to the arrest of three high-ranking […]

Donald Trump is in the middle of his diplomatic trip through Asia, and by all accounts, his behavior in Japan was mortifying. But Trump is not planning to clean up his act as he heads to the Republic of Korea — a U.S. ally gravely threatened by Trump’s reckless provocation of North Korean dictator Kim […]

Tuesday, voters head to the polls in Virginia to elect their next governor. And Donald Trump, who just kicked off National Veterans and Military Families Month, wants Virginians to think that the best way to honor vets is to defeat Democratic candidate and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam. In an early morning tweet, Trump warned that, among […]

New revelations about the deadly ISIS ambush that killed four American soldiers last month in Niger raise new questions about why Donald Trump seems so determined the ignore the military operation. And why he refuses, as commander in chief, to take responsibility for the failed raid. The Pentagon originally described the joint American-Nigerien mission as […]

Two days after a helicopter crash that left one U.S. service member dead and six others wounded, Donald Trump has yet to publicly acknowledge the tragedy. His silence on the deadly crash, which took place Friday in Logar Province, Afghanistan, is part of a broader pattern of repeated refusals to recognize fallen soldiers during his administration. […]

With the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election continuing to heat up, Donald Trump’s allies are not even trying to hide their fake patriotism anymore. And that becomes even more obvious as they turn their ire on special counsel Robert Mueller, a Vietnam veteran with a decorated combat record from his time in […]

The Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress have engaged in an almost non-stop series of assaults and attacks on the military and veterans over the last year. The latest such offense comes in the form of legislation on banking, and the largest veterans group in America has had enough. The American Legion is […]

Donald Trump doesn’t want people paying close attention to the deadly, ISIS-led ambush that killed four U.S. troops this month in Niger, which is why for weeks he refused to even mention the terror attack, or to reference “radical Islamic terror.” Now, as more details emerge about the failed mission, it’s becoming clear why Trump […]

Donald Trump said that “his” generals are to blame for the four American soldiers who were killed in Niger, operating under his orders. Trump’s cowardice ignores his role as commander in chief of the U.S. military and attempts to pass the buck for the results of his leadership. In an impromptu question and answer session […]

A survivor of the doomed Niger mission where four American soldiers were murdered wants the world to know about the heroic actions of Army Sgt. La David Johnson. “The guy is a true war hero,” the survivor told ABC News. “I really want his wife and kids to know that.” The details of the slain […]