Lets take a look at who cared about the military when I was in the Navy. Joined in January 1971 under delayed enlistment program. Boot camp in San Diego in June 1971, base pay for E-3 $180.90, Thanks to Nixon, Base pay for E-3 moved to $330.60. Except for an occasional larger raise, democratic congresses and presidents kept military raises to 2.5% or less when inflation was running at 10% or higher. The only party that did not cut our pay raises was the republican party. Democrats controlled the congress for my entire career and proved the military were not a priority of any type for them. The democrats add a whole lot of spending or other things that have nothing to do with military/veteran funding, just to get the republicans to vote against it so the democrats can falsely accuse republicans of not caring for the veterans/military. Republicans have done the same a time or two but nowhere near as much as the democrats do it.