Overview / Veterans

Overview / Veterans

Project 2025 Proposes Several Changes That Will Impact Veterans.

Here are the key changes and their potential negative effects:

Here are the key changes and their potential negative effects:

Healthcare

  1. Ban the VA from providing abortion services and gender reassignment surgeries.


  2. Increase the number of patients seen per day at VA facilities to 19 patients per provider per day.


  3. Reduce investment in larger VA healthcare campuses.


  4. Establish a veteran "bill of rights" for benefits.

  1. Ban the VA from providing abortion services and gender reassignment surgeries.


  2. Increase the number of patients seen per day at VA facilities to 19 patients per provider per day.


  3. Reduce investment in larger VA healthcare campuses.


  4. Establish a veteran "bill of rights" for benefits.

Disability Benefits

  1. People who currently have disability benefits could have their ratings decreased and all future claimants will have a new, more restrictive system making it harder to qualify.


  2. This will significantly impact our veterans who come back home with disabilities, reducing their access to benefits.

  1. People who currently have disability benefits could have their ratings decreased and all future claimants will have a new, more restrictive system making it harder to qualify.


  2. This will significantly impact our veterans who come back home with disabilities, reducing their access to benefits.

Employment

  1. Veterans currently make up about 30% of the federal workforce- approximately 300,000 people.


  2. Project 2025 will cut federal jobs significantly, which will disproportionately affect veterans.


  3. Get rid of the remote work option for all VA staff.

  1. Veterans currently make up about 30% of the federal workforce- approximately 300,000 people.


  2. Project 2025 will cut federal jobs significantly, which will disproportionately affect veterans.


  3. Get rid of the remote work option for all VA staff.

Active Military

  1. Reinstate service members to active duty who were separated for not getting COVID-19 vaccines.


  2. Reverse a policy that lets DOD cover travel costs for troops seeking reproductive care, including contraception and abortion services.


  3. Suspend the use of Military Health System Genesis, where military applicants are medically examined before they sign up.

    1. This means that people who enlist no longer need to get medical and mental health exams to enter the military.


  4. Require the completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the military entrance exam, by all students in schools that receive federal funding.

    1. This means all public school students will have to complete the military entrance exam, at the very least.

  5. Increase the Army by 50,000 troops.

  6. Improve base housing and military family consideration with change-of-station moves.

  1. Reinstate service members to active duty who were separated for not getting COVID-19 vaccines.


  2. Reverse a policy that lets DOD cover travel costs for troops seeking reproductive care, including contraception and abortion services.


  3. Suspend the use of Military Health System Genesis, where military applicants are medically examined before they sign up.

    1. This means that people who enlist no longer need to get medical and mental health exams to enter the military.


  4. Require the completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the military entrance exam, by all students in schools that receive federal funding.

    1. This means all public school students will have to complete the military entrance exam, at the very least.

  5. Increase the Army by 50,000 troops.

  6. Improve base housing and military family consideration with change-of-station moves.