After months of dragging her feet, Vice President Kamala Harris finally released her online policy platform regarding America’s veterans — and it’s as vague, disingenuous, and dishonest as you’d expect.
Included at the bottom of the new “Issues” tab on the Harris campaign’s website, the section offers very little substance on what policies a Harris-Walz administration would advance to better the lives of retired U.S. service members. Without explaining how, the Democrat presidential ticket pledges to “fight to end veteran homelessness, invest[] in mental health and suicide prevention efforts, and eliminat[e] barriers to employment and expand[] economic opportunity for military and veteran families.”
“A Harris-Walz administration will continue to ensure that service members, veterans and their families receive the benefits they have earned,” the section reads.
While the lack of policy specifics isn’t surprising given Harris and Walz’s efforts to avoid questioning about their extreme left-wing agenda, the campaign’s dishonest attempt to paint a rosy picture of the two Democrats’ track record on military issues is the most damning.
“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe we have a sacred obligation to care for our nation’s service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors,” the campaign boasts.
If that’s true, then why wasn’t Harris present at the recent ceremony honoring the 13 service members killed in Afghanistan during her and Joe Biden’s botched 2021 withdrawal? Better yet, why hasn’t she or Biden bothered to contact these Gold Star families to offer condolences or apologize for the administration’s incompetence that got
