Ashley Murray

The Trump administration’s planned cuts for the Department of Veterans Affairs includes slashing some 80,000 jobs.

The U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit upheld the lower court’s ruling Friday.

One judge on the panel voiced serious concerns about the lack of evidence the Defense Department cited when instituting the ban.

Approximately 300 Fort Campbell soldiers are among those who have been deployed to the southern border so far this year.

The new policy revokes a 2021 Biden administration order allowing transgender people to serve.

The Pentagon will immediately deploy 1,500 troops to monitor the southwest border and crew additional helicopters that are also being sent.

The legislation, titled the Purple Heart Veterans Education Act, would permit retroactive award recipients who served on or after Sept. 11, 2001, to transfer their education benefits to one or more dependents.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., was among the members voting for the ban.

Among concerns of Republican U.S. House lawmakers was the Pentagon’s roughly $114 million request for the programs in the military’s $884 billion authorized, but not yet funded, budget.

If signed into law, which is expected, the roughly $884 billion legislation would authorize a 5.2% pay raise for troops.

Passage of the PACT Act opened benefits eligibility for up to 3.5 million post-9/11 veterans, and for those who served during the Vietnam and Cold War eras.