Trump pledged to house 6,000 homeless vets. His budget funds zero

National Trump pledged to house 6,000 homeless vets. His budget funds zero May 28, 20265:00 AM ET Quil Lawrence Vincent Tourville, a veteran of the Iraq war, lives on the West Los Angeles VA campus with his 2-year-old son. Bethany Mollenkof for NPR hide caption toggle caption Bethany Mollenkof for NPR After Vincent Tourville deployed to Iraq in 2009, he was angry and out of control with what would later be diagnosed as combat PTSD. Tourville tried to outrun his problems, all the way from Maine to California. "I went from truck stop to truck stop, just drinking and just begging for money and didn't have any, and just whatever it takes to get from Portland, Maine to LA," he says. "And I finally made it to Venice Beach and I just sat there and I felt like I accomplished something. But I had no idea where I was going or what I was gonna do. I ended up at the VA." Sponsor Message National Vets in LA hope, with Trump order, that they can finally come home To be precise, Tourville ended up at the West LA Veterans Affairs Campus, a 387-acre plot bequeathed to this country's veterans in 1888, nestled among some of California's most expensive zip codes. Lawsuits, homeless encampments and corruption scandals have dogged the campus for decades, but luckily for Tourville, the West LA VA has come a long way. He says going there saved his life. "I went from sleeping on the beach and sleeping in my car, to a safe parking program," he says. That was the first step: a program where he parked on campus and slept in his car, got one hot meal and drove out in the morning. Next he moved into a program where he could sleep in a bed, no questions asked. Then it was a room in a building, but he needed to be drug- and alcohol-free. Along the way VA staff got him diagnosed, helped him get his disability benefits, and finally, an apartment for him and his 2-year-old son. "I'm still grateful. And it's such a conflicting feeling, because they saved my life," he says. He's conflicted, because the...