Got news for you, brother.... With only 7% (+/-) of the total US population having any experience serving in the Armed Forces at all, there is no motivation for Congress to pay any attention to what we Vets have to say about anything and it shows.
Yeah, they provide some lip service to us on Memorial Day, the Forth of July and Veteran’s Day, but that’s about it.
In the end, we do NOT have enough votes to be a factor and that’s all that matters to them.
We just had them back down on the retiree COLA cuts. America doesn’t like people messing with its military veterans.