Senator Wicker,
What a stirring warning about a dictator whose arsenal is aimed at the United States. Truly moving. I would love to discuss it with you, but I have called your office. I have emailed. I have sent direct messages. I have mailed actual letters with actual 78-cent stamps. Your office has answered exactly NONE of them. Apparently the only way to get a meeting with you is to be a hostile foreign power.
So I will try here, in public, where your staff reads the replies.
You chair the Senate Armed Services Committee. You want the President to remember whose missiles point at us. Fair enough. I would like YOU to remember the Americans who already stood in front of an enemy's weapons and came home broken. Roughly 50,000 combat-wounded, medically retired veterans still have the government take their VA disability pay dollar for dollar out of the retirement they earned. The Major Richard Star Act (H.R. 2102 / S. 1032) ends that.
You cosponsored it in 2021. Then on October 8, 2025, you objected to unanimous consent and called it a "double benefit" we "cannot afford." CBO puts it at about $9.75 BILLION OVER TEN YEARS.
The very next day, you voted YES on a $924.7 BILLION NDAA. The bills you voted for included $1 BILLION for the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative and $1.5 BILLION for Philippine security assistance. Both exist largely to deter the same dictator you are warning us about. That is $2.5 billion, roughly two and a half years of the entire Star Act, spent to counter China, while the Americans who actually bled are told to wait.
That is the Wicker Affordability Hoax. The money is always there for everyone except the wounded.
What is next, Senator? Cosponsor a bill, block it yourself, then call the people it helps "double dippers"... wait, I was just told you already did that!
There is a discharge petition in the House, H.Res. 1247, gaining names. In the Senate, the thing standing between this bill and a vote was your objection. Withdraw it. Every month you stall, more of these veterans die, and the CBO score gets cheaper for the worst reason imaginable.
Xi visits for a day. These veterans live with their injuries every day.
Everyone else: Capitol Switchboard, (202) 224-3121. Ask for Senator Wicker's office. Maybe they will answer you.
But what do I know? I am only a medically retired Army medic whose letters apparently carry less weight than a Chinese state visit.
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