Dem senator accused of 'lying,' using veterans as 'props,' dismisses attacks: 'This is the best they've got?'
'This is the best they've got?' asked an Ossoff spokesperson in response to GOP criticisms
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Published September 11, 2025 5:00am EDT
Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff brushed off Republican criticism that he exaggerated – some have even said lied – about his role helping pass legislation aimed at preventing veterans from foreclosing on their homes. Claims that have been followed by inaccurate local media outlets indicating Ossoff co-sponsored the bill, even though he did not.
Ossoff posted video of a news report last week which chronicled how he held a press conference alongside local leaders and veterans groups after President Donald Trump signed the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act a few weeks ago to "talk about his bipartisan bill signed into law." Ossoff also claimed in the caption that "the bipartisan VA Home Loan Reform Act [was] championed by Sen. Ossoff to protect veterans." Additionally, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution claimed that Ossoff's office sent out a news release after Trump signed the bill which described it as a piece of "bipartisan legislation that Sen. Ossoff championed to help veterans relying on VA home loans."
But, according to a Fox News analysis, Ossoff is not a co-sponsor of the legislation, nor is there any record that he even voted for it, since the bill was passed by unanimous consent in the House and by a voice vote in the Senate. Ossoff did not offer up any Senate companion legislation either, and he was not present, nor did he speak, when the bill was considered on the Senate floor in July, a GOP source in the Senate alleged to Fox News Digital.
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