To: Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, House and Senate Armed Services Committees, House and Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittees
Decrease the pentagon budget
Trump has waged a war with Iran that risks our safety here and abroad. At the same time, Congress is in the beginning stages of negotiating the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) for 2027, which sets funding levels, outlines defense policies and rules for the Department of Defense. More taxpayer dollars going to the ever-growing Pentagon budget is not a long-term defense or security solution, and it cannot continue to increase.
Now, Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are requesting even more funding for reckless, unauthorized wars and/or their corporate contractor allies. Members of Congress have an obligation to represent their constituents and think twice about approving another astronomical increase to the Pentagon budget. Why do we need more funding for warfare, while Trump flounders on any cohesive plan or strategy in Iran that continues to put our service members at risk in the Middle East?
We must pet people over pentagon and decrease defense spending to reallocate funds to dire needs in the United States.
Why is this important?
The Department of Defense regularly fails independent financial audits regarding where the Pentagon budget is spent. The precedent to continuously allow the Pentagon to increase its budget without any sort of accountability must end.
The federal government continues to put the needs of people last, and wonder why people no longer have faith in our federal institutions. Many Americans are feeling the financial strain of higher costs at the gas pump and the grocery store. People are having to get second and third jobs to make ends meet while rent increases. Time and financial investment in warfare continue despite working people across the country suffering from instability, healthcare cuts, unaffordable housing, and cuts to programs that support children and our caregivers.
An intentional decrease of the Pentagon budget is about making real safety and security possible for all of us: safe homes, healthy children and families, affordable care, strong schools, and a government that shows up when people need it.
Congress must cut the Pentagon budget and reject any NDAA or defense spending package that locks in another round of military expansion, especially at the expense of our domestic programs that support families.
Every dollar spent on the Pentagon is a dollar siphoned away from essential programming everyday people rely on to survive.
Congress should stop writing blank checks for war and start investing in US!