To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Put Pentagon Bloat on the Table to Pay for Domestic Infrastructure
Just Foreign Policy
Put cuts to the bloated Pentagon budget on the table to pay for needed spending on domestic infrastructure.
Why is this important?
The Washington Post claims that Hillary Clinton won't be able to fulfill her promise to increase domestic infrastructure spending, because House Republicans will insist on cuts elsewhere to pay for it. [1] But that would only be the end of the story if we assumed - as the Washington Post apparently does - that the bloated Pentagon budget is sacrosanct.
Not every House Republican votes in lock-step with the Pentagon. Forty House Republicans - many of them members of the House Liberty Caucus - voted with the overwhelming majority of House Democrats to stop the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia. [2]
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References:
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/08/11/daily-202-hillary-clinton-s-agenda-would-flounder-in-congress-here-are-seven-reasons-why/57abd94bcd249a2fe363ba11/
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obama-heeding-close-house_b_10516480.html