Activist Amy: March 2017

Congress: Reject Trump Budget and Demand a Pentagon Audit!: Dear WAND Activist:

President Trump just released a preliminary budget blueprint to Congress.

As the saying goes, “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”

We now know where Trump wants to spend money (and where he doesn’t) and it is safe to say he has bad priorities.

Not only does Trump plan to increase the Pentagon’s budget, but it does so on the backs of the working class and poor. Trump aims to make cuts to social safety net programs like Meals on Wheels, funding for low- and moderate-income students to afford college, and heating assistance, so that he can justify buying more nuclear weapons and other weapons of war.

Despite the increase in military spending, Trump’s budget makes us less safe. It eliminates 29 percent of the State Department’s funding -- you know, the department that helps prevent war by promoting diplomacy.

To make matters worse, we don’t even know how the Department of Defense is spending its money or what we truly need for our security because, despite being required to do so by law, it has not completed an audit of itself.

That’s why we are asking you to send an email to your member of Congress with two requests:

1) REJECT Trump’s budget

2) DEMAND an audit of the Department of Defense.

Let President Trump (and Congress) know that his priorities are not your priorities by taking action now.

Sincerely,

Erica Fein

Nuclear Weapons Policy Director

PS: For more about what you need to know about President Trump’s budget, please check out our talking points here (http://www.wand.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Trump-Budget-Request.pdf).