Support an Evanston City Council resolution urging President Trump not to move $54 billion from the EPA, the Department of Health and Human Services and the State Department over to our already huge military budget.
Why is this important?
Evanston is currently struggling to fund its schools, its social service organizations, and its cultural institutions. Yet, President Trump's government proposes moving monies away from the EPA, HHS and the State Department to further inflate the military budget. We urge the City Council to let President Trump know this runs counter to our values as human beings and as a community.
Taxpayers in the U.S. are paying $528.49 billion for the Department of Defense. This amount of money could alternately be used to fund:
+ 6.54 million elementary school teachers for one year, or
+ 7.13 million clean energy jobs created for one year, or
+ 9.51 million infrastructure jobs created for one year, or
+ 5.28 million jobs with supports in high poverty communities for 1 year, or
+ 59.31 million Head Start slots for children for one year, or
+ 51.15 million military veterans receiving VA medical care for one year, or
+ 15.91 million scholarships for university students for four years, or
+ 22.72 million students receiving Pell Grants of $5,815 for four years, or
+ 222.93 million children receiving low-income health care for one year, or
+ 595.33 million households with wind power for one year, or
+ 148.46 million adults receiving low-income healthcare for one year, or
+ 367.73 million households with solar electricity for one year.
This is our money. It should be our choice how it is spent.
