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John,
Did you see Deborah’s email below? President Biden has proposed $850 billion in defense spending for FY2025—a $34 billion increase from FY2023.1 But it gets even worse. Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker is trying to gain support for a $1.4 trillion Pentagon budget!2
We know that some in Congress are aiming to set up a secretive fiscal commission that could make permanent cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other nutrition assistance, housing, and more without proposing any cuts to the Department of Defense. And they would extend all of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and multi-billion dollar corporations.
Our government cannot continue to cater to the wealthy few, including military contractors, while leaving the majority of us struggling to make ends meet.
Since the war in Afghanistan, one-third to one-half of the Pentagon budget has gone to military contractors. Lockheed Martin alone received $75 billion in contracts in 2020.3 While military contractors spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress for increases in their funding, we have you and our national grassroots network reminding elected officials where the American people stand.
Donate $5 today to fight back against wasteful Pentagon spending and demand investments in our families and communities.
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Thank you for all you do,
Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Budget of the U.S. Government FISCAL YEAR 2025
2 A nearly $1 trillion defense budget faces headwinds at home and abroad
3 Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
-- DEBORAH'S EMAIL --
John,
Federal military contractors price gouge the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by as much as 40%.1 That is billions of dollars wasted every year by an agency that has never passed a full audit, and makes up one-sixth of the United States budget.2
Expanding the DoD’s budget year after year without a careful look at where the funds are going undermines our security by preventing us from investing in the shared prosperity that comes from more housing, climate, and public health protections.
In 2023, the United States spent more on the military than the next 15 countries combined3 And gigantic sums are going to military contractors making big profits - the top 5 weapons contractors received $166.8b in 2020 alone.4
The more Pentagon spending increases, the deeper the cuts to human needs programs like child care, early learning, nutrition assistance, and more.
Donate today to demand Congress prioritize funding for essential human needs programs, not wasteful military contracts.
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The Republican Study Committee released a FY2025 budget that is full of devastating draconian cuts to critical programs. It would slash Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by turning them into block grants and expand the work requirements to include 18-65 year olds, end conservation programs farmers rely on, and increase the retirement age for Social Security.[5][6] Those are just a few examples of dangerous cuts proposed.
We cannot reach prosperity on the backs of working people.
In order for America and all of her inhabitants to truly thrive, we must cut bloated defense spending and invest that money into our communities.
The Department of Defense has never passed a full audit. We cannot continue to spend billions of dollars on wasteful Pentagon contracts while families and communities are suffering. Donate $5 today to demand Congress invest in our communities.
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately:
Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
1 Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines, missiles
2 Congressional Budget Office: Defense and National Security
3 Global military spending hits record $2.2 trillion amid multiple wars
4 Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
5 Republican Study Committee Budget Targets SNAP, Crop Insurance
6 House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
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