Dropping current military students and denying future ones their college education is what passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 27 and is what the Senate will be considering this week.
These lawmakers took military education benefits and added them into an arbitrary political calculation that will result in hundreds of thousands of active duty service members and veterans at risk of losing educational opportunities that they have earned for serving their country.
Active duty service members and veterans of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and National & Reserve Guard along with their families would be dropped because schools would be in violation of this new law with military revenue inserted in a formula with educational grants and loans.
Denied in the future because schools would be forced to enroll civilian over military students so they don’t go over a certain revenue limit. Sound unconscionable? Well, it is.
Two paragraphs tucked in an unrelated 100-page bill on COVID-19 relief that had no hearings to discuss the pros and cons is disrespectful given the gravity of the inevitable adverse consequences of this measure.