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Military-community priorities
Isaiah Lopez, Campaign Manager · On behalf of Bernadette Greene-Placentia ·
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Supporting military families
Arizona’s 8th Congressional District is home to thousands of veterans, military families, and people whose lives are directly connected to our armed forces. Supporting them is both a responsibility to those who serve and an important part of maintaining military readiness.
Quality of life
Her priority is making sure military families can afford to live where they serve. That means competitive military pay, housing allowances that reflect actual local costs, reliable TRICARE coverage, and greater access to affordable childcare.
Bernadette also supports making it easier for military spouses to maintain their careers when families relocate, including stronger professional-license portability, expanded remote and federal employment opportunities, and better support during permanent-change-of-station moves.
Childcare and spouse employment are readiness issues as much as family issues. When families cannot find childcare or a spouse repeatedly has to restart a career, it places additional strain on the entire household.
Veterans’ care
Veterans should receive timely, high-quality care and the benefits they earned.
Bernadette supports strengthening the VA while ensuring veterans can access community care when the VA cannot provide appropriate treatment within a reasonable time or distance. Mental health care deserves particular attention, especially during the transition from active duty to civilian life.
Bernadette would also work to improve coordination between DOD and the VA so service members receiving mental health treatment experience a genuine handoff of care rather than having to navigate the system alone.
For disability benefits, the goal should be straightforward: claims should be processed both quickly and accurately, with veterans retaining access to assistance and due process.
Family housing
Military families deserve housing that is safe, affordable, and properly maintained.
Bernadette supports stronger oversight of privatized military housing, clear health and safety standards, transparent maintenance records, effective tenant advocacy, and meaningful consequences when housing contractors repeatedly fail military families.
Housing allowances should also reflect actual local market conditions. Service members should not be forced into excessive commutes, second jobs, or family separation because suitable housing is unaffordable near their duty station.
First priorities and evidence
Bernadette’s first priorities would be improving military childcare, ensuring pay and housing allowances keep up with the cost of living, expanding military-spouse employment opportunities, improving the transition from DOD to VA mental health care, protecting timely disability-benefit processing, and strengthening accountability in military housing.
The principle behind all of these priorities is simple: we should not ask service members and their families to absorb unnecessary financial, professional, or personal costs because they chose to serve our country.
These priorities are also supported by recent work from the Government Accountability Office examining military childcare, military-spouse employment, housing affordability, privatized military housing, and the transition from DOD to VA care.
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Military & pay
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Military families
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Veterans
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Defense contracting
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Military & pay
Not enough evidence
Selected official actions: 0 · Full scoring review incomplete
Military families
Not enough evidence
Selected official actions: 0 · Full scoring review incomplete
Veterans
Not enough evidence
Selected official actions: 0 · Full scoring review incomplete
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