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REJECT Trump's massive $1.5 trillion military budget!

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    REJECT Trump's massive $1.5 trillion military budget!

    Petition to Congress:
    We urge you to oppose the White House budget request for increased defense and DHS spending and deep cuts to health care and government services.

    Trump's budget proposal demands $1.5 trillion in military spending — the largest increase in 70 years.1 "It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things," Trump said recently. "We have to take care of one thing: military protection."2

    Besides Trump's wars killing thousands, displacing millions, and causing wholesale destruction, the White House now wants to use war as a reason to continue Project 2025 and slash government services.

    Trump made deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and a wide array of critical government services last year, while handing tax breaks to the rich and corporations, and fueling ICE violence across the country. Congress must outright reject Trump’s absurd military spending.

    Sign the petition: Say NO to Trump's disastrous budget proposal — NO funding increases for war and NO cuts to health care!

    In addition to war funding, Trump and Russ Vought (an architect of Project 2025 and head of the White House budget office) are proposing a "historic investment" in the Department of Homeland Security, even after giving ICE tens of billions of dollars last year to terrorize communities and build more torture prisons.3

    Trump and Vought have spent the last 14 months gutting government agencies, exploiting federal shutdowns to threaten funding to Democratic-led states, and defunding health care and social services.4

    Congress must forcefully oppose increases in military and ICE funding, as well as cuts to social services.

    Sign the petition: Reject Trump's war budget now.

    Sources:

    1. Common Dreams, "'A Moral Obscenity': Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost With Billions in Cuts to Social Programs," April 3, 2026.
    2. Jacobin, "Trump's $1.5 Trillion for War Comes From Americans' Pockets," April 6, 2026.
    3. Common Dreams, "'A Moral Obscenity': Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost With Billions in Cuts to Social Programs," April 3, 2026.
    4. Federal News Network, "Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other," October 14, 2025.
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