Count how many SPENDING bills Reagan vetoed. I think your left hand fingers will be too many.
In a situation where the Democrats have a lock on both houses in Congress, if you need to get the military back up to speed, you have to agree to spending on the other side.
Reagan would have left us with no military if he didn’t work with Congress. I may not like it, but that’s the hard cold facts.
Reagan was governor of California. I took over from Jerry Brown’s dad. There was a big deficit. He got that cleaned up before left office, a great fiscal Conservative.
In Washington he hasn’t so lucky.
You do what you can do.