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John,
I voted NO on the House of Representatives’ recently-passed military budget for 2025.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a “must-pass” bill that passes every year with the support of a majority of Congresspeople. This year’s Republican-led House version includes anti-Palestinian policies such as banning U.S. funds from being used to rebuild in Gaza or to support refugees from Gaza.
This bill would send nearly $1 trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars to the U.S. Department of Defense, which has failed to pass an audit for six years in a row, and which allocates around half its annual budget directly to military contractors.
Instead of cutting huge checks to corporations like Boeing and Lockheed, our government should be cutting checks for everyday people who are struggling to make ends meet.
It’s also shameful that many of my colleagues are actively profiting financially when they vote to pass endless funding for weapons and war, because they personally own stock in war manufacturing.
I introduced the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act to prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from having any financial interests in corporations that do business with the U.S. Department of Defense—including banning members from trading defense stocks.
Please add your name to show your support for my Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act to ban members of Congress from profiting off of endless war.
Between 2019 and 2021, 97 members of Congress or their family members invested in weapons contractor stocks, and 25 of them sat on committees directly responsible for shaping national security policy while they traded and profited off those stocks. This is unacceptable.
Members of Congress were elected to serve the public, not to serve their stock portfolios. My constituents sent me to Congress to invest in life and in everyday working people, not in death and endless war.
Together, we will continue to push for a government that prioritizes diplomacy and our communities’ needs over the profits of military corporations.
In solidarity,
Rashida
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