A vote of Nay on the military budget is not directly a vote of Aye on infrastructure spending. Also jobs are not really transferable. So all the military peopl

A vote of Nay on the military budget is not directly a vote of Aye on infrastructure spending. Also jobs are not really transferable. So all the military people need to be less mad at you than the infrastructure people are now happy with you; otherwise you lose at re-election. Like you need to figure out what the transition is from using military as an employment welfare to construction as an employment welfare and why the US will stick to that transition at each phase. That's a lot of work; much easier as a politician to not rock that boat.