Three points:
One - my sister-in-law gets a sickeningly fat retirement from the state of Minnesota as a retired state employee. No cuts there.
Two - there is so much Medicare fraud going on and that could easily pay for this supposedly necessary cut to military retirement. No action to stop the fraud.
Three - the budget deal affected Govt civil service employees, but only the new ones. Currently serving civilians had no such comparable retirement reduction. How is that fair? Oh, I forgot, the military doesn’t vote Dem (by and large).
Take a look at who is committing the fraud and it will provide a clue as to why little is being done.
Here in Tampa there is a company called Wellcare. They committed in the neighborhood of $300 million in fraud. They paid a fine of around $120 million but were allowed to stay in business.
Soros is one of their investors.
Four - no shoring up the tax laws/rules against illegal immigrants or rampant welfare fraud. Nope, can’t do any of that, so just cut the veterans’ benefits.