As a concerned citizen, I’m asking you to support two amendments to reduce Pentagon spending in this year's NDAA led by Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI). While we continue to inflate the Pentagon budget and send weapons, soldiers, and other resources all around the world for military use with little oversight into how those resources are actually used, millions of Americans at home are struggling to afford housing, healthcare, education, transportation, and countless other necessities. It would be disrespectful to the people you serve to prioritize the profits of weapons contractors and the expansion of the US military over real, pressing human needs in your own community. The amendments introduced by Representatives Lee and Pocan would be a good start to move money from the war economy to the urgent needs we have here at home. The first would roll back the $37.5 billion top-up added in HASC, bringing the overall Pentagon topline back to the number initially proposed by President Biden for FY23. The second would cut the authorized Pentagon topline by $100 billion, excluding personnel and the Defense Health program. These cuts are vital and necessary, and I urge you to vote YES on both.

As a concerned constituent, I’m asking you to support two amendments led by Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) to reduce the egregiously high Pentagon spending proposed in this year's NDAA. While we continue to balloon the Pentagon budget and send weapons, soldiers, and other resources all around the world for military use with almost no oversight into how those resources are actually used, millions of Americans at home are struggling to afford housing, healthcare, education, transportation, and countless other necessities. It would be disgraceful to prioritize the profits of weapons contractors and the expansion of the US military over real, pressing human needs in your own community. The amendments introduced by Representatives Lee and Pocan would be a solid start on addressing these problems. The first would roll back the $37.5 billion top-up added in HASC, bringing the overall Pentagon topline back to the number initially proposed by President Biden for FY23. The second would cut the authorized Pentagon topline by $100 billion, excluding personnel and the Defense Health program. These cuts are vital and necessary, and I urge you to vote YES on both.