Republican U.S. Senate candidate Hung Cao called for more support for veterans during a Monday campaign stop in Norfolk.
“No one cares about us but us,” said Cao, a retired Navy veteran. “We need to take care of veterans now.”
Cao, who is facing off against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine, was addressing a few dozen attendees at VFW Post 4809. He said more money should be given to support veterans struggling with homelessness or post traumatic stress disorder but asserted that funding was instead used to support immigrants.
“We could take care of them but instead they’re taking a billion dollars a day and paying it to illegal aliens to house them and feed them and give them a free cellphone,” he said. “Are we out of people to help in the United States (to the point) that we need to import people in?”
Cao criticized the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago and called for an end to “endless wars.” He said the military has been a “punching bag” for too long and that society was demonizing the type of young men and women needed to fight wars.