Congress already spends far too much money on the Pentagon. But this year, they are planning to INCREASE defense spending to an amount that is more than Donald Trump’s last Pentagon budget. That is completely upside down.
First, I was proud to champion an effort to cut the Pentagon’s budget by 10 percent because there are so many better ways we could invest those tens of billions of dollars in our communities. Then, I was firm in voting against the House’s more than $740 billion giveaway to defense contractors who turn around and relentlessly lobby for and profit off of our country’s excessive military budget.
Now, the defense spending proposal in the Senate is even more than that $740 billion budget and it would even exceed Trump’s Pentagon budget last year. We need to oppose this excessive budget and urge Congress to invest in the people, not bloated military spending.
Our country must redefine and reimagine what it means to be strong. Being strong is NOT giving more money to a bloated Pentagon budget that is already larger than the following 11 countries’ military budgets combined. We can strengthen our country by guaranteeing health care for all, raising wages, investing in child care and education, fighting for our unions and labor protections, and so much more.
Our fight for transformative change is only as powerful as the grassroots movement that powers it — and that starts with keeping our fundraising on track. Donate right now to help me continue organizing for what the people — not defense contractors and their lobbyists — need right now.
In solidarity,
Pramila
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