Veterans Day Victory: House Passes Take Care of America’s Veterans Act After Dem Stall, While NYC Embraces Socialism & Media Spins Gas Prices
On Veterans Day 2026, Drew Steele celebrates real action for America’s heroes while exposing the left’s socialist fantasies, media spin, and Democratic threats against conservatives, the courts, and the country veterans defended.
Steele plays additional remarks from President Trump at Arlington National Cemetery, where the President declared that the freedoms and legacy secured by veterans “have outlived them” and that “with God’s help, we will do things that we’ve never been able to do before.” He then highlights the House finally passing the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act after months of Democratic delays. The bill raises housing allowances, allows certain combat-disabled retirees to collect both disability and retired pay, extends benefits to remarried surviving spouses, boosts dependency and indemnity compensation, creates a new supplemental allowance for disabled veterans, bars the VA from denying claims solely over a missed exam, expands caregiver support, and codifies Veterans Community Care Program standards—among other long-overdue improvements.
The show pivots to the post-midterm left’s priorities. Street interviews in New York feature voters and even an NYU professor celebrating socialism under Zohran Mamdani and insisting “it will work here” despite historical failures. Steele counters with a Venezuelan refugee who fled after socialist policies nationalized businesses, farms, and factories, turning a once-prosperous country into one with chronic shortages of basic goods. He warns that the same voices pushing “American-style socialism” are the ones veterans’ sacrifices protected the right to reject.
Additional segments cover:
AOC floating impeachment options against the President, Supreme Court justices, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, framing it as part of a broader lawfare push.
Falling gas prices (national average dipping below $4 for the first time since mid-July), mocked against claims that Democrats or Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed magically lowered them—contrasted with Trump-era prices before the Iran conflict.
Angie Nixon on Don Lemon’s podcast accusing Democrats of wanting Black “labor” but not “leadership,” which Steele notes effectively labels the Democratic Party itself as racist while she still operates inside it.
Florida newsroom updates: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and family relocated to a secure military installation amid heightened Iran threats; Florida Republicans (including veterans in Congress) marking Veterans Day; Rep. Kat Cammack unanimously elected to lead the state’s GOP House delegation.
Sen. John Kennedy urging Republicans to stay in session through the holidays if needed to confirm judicial and executive nominees, use reconciliation, target fraud, and cut spending before Democrats take the House.
Bill Gates softening climate-doom rhetoric (effects “towards the end of the century,” innovations coming), which Steele treats as messaging adjustment, not a change in the left’s control agenda.
Rachel Maddow claiming ICE detention facilities will become concentration camps for ordinary Americans under Trump.
Brief notes on Kushner and Witkoff heading to Moscow then Zelensky for Ukraine talks, and skepticism around certain midterm vote totals.