Rep Tom Barrett Newsletter, 8 June 2025
Tom Barrett's Newsletter:
"I wrapped up the week joining the Grunt Style Foundation, DAV, VFW, and fellow Congressman, General Jack Bergman, at the “War Cry for Change” press conference. We came together to demand accountability and put a stop to overprescription within the VA health system. Our veterans deserve better than a lifetime of pills, so I will continue fighting for alternative treatment pathways that provide our heroes with the help they need without the risks of addiction."
To Rep. Tom Barrett, June, 9 2025.
I cannot believe your claim to be fighting for our veterans. Your newsletter mentions you working against "over prescription" of drugs in the VA. You make no mention of the disaster that DOGE, which you supported, made of VA funding. The use of AI to "munch" the VA budget, written by a programmer who had zero knowledge of what "supporting patient care" meant resulted in irresponsible recommendations that threaten the VA's mission to support our veterans. Your meager attempt to address drug "over prescription" will certainly be accomplished if the VA is unable to supply any drugs at all due to your own support of DOGE.
You incant the words "fraud" and "waste" as if they were magic terms that justify your irresponsible behavior. You don't care at all about fraud and waste, you care about serving the most dangerous and foolish administration cutting the very programs you claim to support. The latest debacle of AI at the VA simply reinforces the voters' view that you are an empty suit willingly destroying the government's ability to function.
I'm sure Michigan's veterans will remember your attack on them come 2026.