Dear John,

Last week the House of Representatives rejected legislation to cut the Pentagon budget by 10% and voted for a $780 billion Pentagon budget. 

That’s...

❌$25 billion more than the amount requested by President Biden AND the Pentagon itself!

❌$38 billion more than Trump’s last budget! 

❌More than DOUBLE what Congress is proposing in annual funding for their $3.5 T reconciliation package 

Only 38 members of the House of Representatives voted against this heinous Pentagon budget. Find out who they are AND send a message to hold the rest of them accountable! 

We all understand the disgusting hypocrisy of our representatives voting to hand the Pentagon and weapons manufacturers $780,000,000,000 one week, then pretending that we “can’t afford” things like child care and free community college this week. We need to let our representatives know we WILL NOT accept this violent status quo moving forward. Send a message to your representatives now to hold them accountable for voting to increase the Pentagon budget.

CODEPINK members have been in the streets in Washington D.C. this week calling on our members of Congress to invest in people and the planet, not war and destruction. Their work is an important reminder that if we’re going to pressure our representatives to #CutThePentagon, we need a strong movement across this country. In addition to holding your representative accountable, you can sign up to join the movement to Cut the Pentagon for people, peace, planet, and our future. 

Together, we can take on Members of Congress who are bought and sold by war profiteers. It starts by holding them accountable for this vote and it continues by building our power to #CutThePentagon.

Towards peace, 

Carley, Jodie, Medea, Moses, Nancy, Olivia, Shea, and the CODEPINK team

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