The Union veterans Council is urging President Trump to veto U.S. Senate Joint Resolution 47 passed 51-50 with Vice-President Pence casting the deciding vote.

The Union Veterans Council’s William Attig says instead the president should stand with veterans. That resolution removes consumer protections important to veterans when dealing with big banks and financial corporations.

[William Attig]: “What the Union Veterans Council is doin’ – along with what the American Legion did on Friday  – we are callin’ on President Trump to choose between two options.

He gets to choose between corporate lobbyists and big banks or he gets to choose with the side of the men and women who fought and bled for their country, the service members, the service community and veto this bad piece of legislation.

It’s un-American. It strips rights away from consumers. And it’s frankly an anti-veteran bill.”

Attig says the Senate resolution upholds forced arbitration clauses that allow big banks and corporations to take away your constitutional rights to sue them.

[William Attig]: “These clauses – these forced arbitration clauses – take those protections and rights away from the consumer. And its usually one line on the 40th page in small print, saying you can’t go to court. You have to go to the forced arbitration.

The problem with forced arbitration is the corporations get to choose the arbitrator. They pay for the arbitrator. And they have a 97 percent success rate when they go to arbitration.”

The Union Veterans Council joins the American Legion, the Military Coalition and 29 other veterans organization calling on Trump to veto this Senate resolution. They say if this isn’t vetoed “veterans and service members could face the loss of financial protections and the right to defend themselves in the court of law.”