Every Member of Congress should announce, right now, that they will reject this monstrous war funding proposal.
The Trump administration’s planned $200 billion war spending request is grotesque beyond words.It should properly be understood not just as a request to replenish supplies, but to expand, escalate, and perpetuate the illegal, unconstitutional, unpopular and devastating war on Iran .
Congress should understand that approving any portion of this funding opens the gates for one, two, and potentially many more war funding requests in the future.How dare the administration propose this gargantuan sum to expand an illegal war of choice at the same time it has rammed through deep cuts in health care and food assistance, refuses to spend foreign assistance at a cost of millions of lives, and has cut spending on protecting clean air, maintaining our national parks, investing in health research, protecting consumers from fraud, and so much more.Two hundred billion dollars is enough to materially change the lives of Americans and truly make our country stronger. It would be enough to restore food assistance to the four million Americans and Medicaid to the 15 million Americans who will lose those crucial supports under the Republican reconciliation bill; establish universal pre-K education; pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing; double the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency; and expand Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing.Every Member of Congress should announce, right now, that they will reject this monstrous war funding proposal, before it is formalized.
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