Democrats suddenly worried about the troops and spending

The Washington Examiner reports that four Democrat Senators, Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Jack Reed and Gary Peters, are worried about the cost of Super Troll, President Trump’s planned parade, so they wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis expressing their concerns;

“At a time of war, with American service members serving in harm’s way, such a parade seems to be inappropriate and wasteful,” the senators wrote. “Every penny of the millions of dollars that the parade would cost and every second of the tens of thousands of personnel hours its execution would require, should be devoted to the most essential missions of the Department of Defense — protecting the American people and our security interests.”

It’s odd that these Senators are suddenly concerned about the health and welfare of servicemembers and national security after they have been trying to slash and burn the Pentagon for years in the form of sequestration. They don’t seem worried about the tens of thousands of man hours wasted on social engineering and things that have little to do with the “most essential missions” of the DoD. Now they want to burden the Pentagon with medical costs associated with transgender recruits.

Their “every penny” argument rings hollow in the ears of Americans who have watched the Senate raid the surplus of retirees’ Tricare while they jacked up out-of-pocket costs for those same retirees.

Concern for troops is odd coming from Dick Durban who said they were like Nazi concentration camp guards, a few years back.

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