Dear John,
Donald Trump has suggested a $1.5 trillion war budget. And key Republicans in Congress have endorsed the idea. The war budget has just passed $1 trillion for the first time since World War II.
Handing over that kind of money to a president who just invaded a sovereign country without any direct threat should be unthinkable. The invasion of Venezuela is a moral and legal outrage.
The president cited “dangerous times” in calling for a newly flush war budget, but he himself is the most dangerous thing about these times.
This is a president who has endangered his own people by sending military troops to peaceful U.S. cities, and targeting immigrants and citizens alike with a violent and unaccountable militant force.
This is a president who invaded a sovereign nation that posed no direct threat to the United States, and then mentioned oil 23 times in his post-invasion press conference.
And this is the president who said just last week, “We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.”
We’ve consistently looked at the costs of these outrages, from the stationing of troops in U.S. cities to Hanna Homestead and Lindsay Koshgarian’s look at the costs of the invasion of Venezuela. As Lindsay Koshgarian writes elsewhere, it’s even worse that nearly half of Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities while the war machine rages on.
And as Alliyah Lusuegro writes, we stand with Americans who aren’t about to let this president get his hands on $1.5 trillion to continue his rampage.
In solidarity,
Alliyah, Hanna and Lindsay
