Congressional Republicans spent the past year vowing to voters that they would stand with President Trump's America First warfighting agenda. Now, with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in hand, they're revealing their true colors: the Swamp has absolutely no intention of following through on those campaign promises.

Less than a week after the White House released a National Security Strategy built on a clear, coherent America First vision, Capitol Hill produced an NDAA that fails to eliminate DEI mandates or open-ended global troop commitments. This bill not only fails to codify the President's most important military reforms—it protects the Deep State's priorities on DEI, gender ideology, and racial discrimination in clear defiance of Trump's mandate from the American people.

The truth is that these Senators and Congressmen are betraying the America First movement's core principles and defying Trump's own National Security Strategy—even as they shamelessly market themselves as loyal MAGA warriors on the 2026 campaign trail.

And as a West Point grad and former Army Ranger, I'd be stunned if the President goes along with it.

President Trump was elected on a platform of re-warriorizing a military hollowed out and demoralized by years of Democrat-led decay. He put War Sec. Pete Hegseth in place to revive our warfighting spirit and prepare the Armed Forces to win the next major conflict.

That vision inspired me to launch RestoretheMilitary.com to help them finish the job—and it's why I'm urging the President firmly and plainly: Do not to sign this NDAA. Our country can't afford another fumble… particularly one of this scale.

It's been business as usual for too long on Capitol Hill. Too many in Congress still don't understand that Americans voted for real, authentic, no-holds-barred change. They won't be satisfied by anything less. But that's what this bill gives us: Far less than the nation and its warriors deserve.

It's the same lesson for those who point out that lawmaking is an ugly process. It certainly can be messy… but a few good apples don't justify a cart full of rotten fruit. Do better.

This bill is too dangerous to become law. President Trump, you must veto the NDAA and guide us toward a new vision of a restored military—because we simply can't trust the Deep State to do it for us.