John: Remember those $1776 “dividend” Trump sent out to active duty military before Christmas?
A lot of Troops were excited about that money — understandably. $1776 is $1776, after all.
That is, until they found out Trump Scrooged them for publicity.
The money for those checks came out of a fund that was already allocated as a supplement for the basic allowance for housing that servicemembers get to help cover their rent.
The bonuses Trump turned them into are even now taxable at the state level. Bah humbug.
It actually gets worse, though. The total allocated by Congress for the supplement was $2.9 billion. The total for the $1776 checks all together is $2.6 billion. That leaves $300 million on the table that was supposed to go to the Troops but now will only go to them in the “future.”
Scrooged again.
And, somehow, it’s even worse than that. All of this is happening after Trump diverted $2 billion that was meant to be spent on barracks updates, refurbishment, and amenities on base and spent it on the border instead.
The grift never stops. Not even for Christmas.
But we don’t stop either, and we’re going to go out of our way to make sure Trump gets his just deserts over this publicity stunt. Once people learn the truth about stuff like this, the facade cracks. It’s an opening, and one we are going to exploit.
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