Why would I need to save it when there is already pre-existing history?

This year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/us-defense-hawks-push-for-more-military-spending-despite-bloat

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2023/03/10/gop-blasts-inadequate-biden-defense-budget-as-it-vows-spending-cuts/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep27719

2016:

https://www.republicanviews.org/republican-views-on-defense-spending/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-defense-spending-sequester/index.html

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-republicans-military-budget-could-make-every-homeless-person-in-america-a-millionaire-1c5f2c2b4c1b/

2006:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/03/17/congress-raises-ceiling-for-borrowing-span-classbankhead100-billion-is-spent-without-offsetting-cutsspan/18d86b47-47e1-4509-83ab-fd95faaff601/

Pick any year within the last two decades and you can pretty easily find an article about republicans pushing for or having a high military budget. That trend is not changing any time soon.