American Rescue Plan Spends Billions on Homeless Vets
The Claim
While $86 million is going to house undocumented immigrants, homeless US veterans are being given zero dollars in financial support by the Biden administration.
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Emerging story
On March 21st, 2021, a Republican Representative of North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn, posted a complaint about the Biden Administration on Twitter. In the tweet, he claimed that the government is giving $86 million to undocumented immigrants but $0 to homeless veterans of the US military.
This post has since gained over 13,100 likes and 4,800 retweets. Others have repeated this claim on other social media platforms, such as Facebook.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s investigation has discovered that Cawthorn’s claim is incorrect. The American Rescue Plan Act, which Biden signed into law on March 11th 2021, provides billions of dollars meant to improve veterans’ lives. In fact, 37,000 homeless veterans are receiving housing support thanks to the act, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Our analysis shows that veterans will also receive other benefits in the American Rescue Plan that is meant to stop and prevent homelessness such as $14.5 billion in expanded healthcare, $1 billion in healthcare debt forgiveness, $750 million to improve the living conditions of veterans, $386 million in rapid retraining assistance, $262 million to reduce the backlog of pension/compensation claims, $100 million to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs supply chain system, $80 million for veteran employee leave and more.
