Tell your Members of Congress: Cut the military budget and increase domestic spending!
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email Contact: https://speier.house.gov/email-jackie
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My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
America is in crisis. The pandemic rages unchecked, hospitals are broke and overwhelmed, local governments are going bankrupt, there is massive unemployment, and the climate emergency is growing worse. Yet the Republican-drafted National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) calls for increasing defense spending rather than addressing our real needs. When the NDAA comes to the floor I urge you to:
1. Support amendments proposed by Senators Sanders, Markey, & Warren, to cut total defense spending by 10%, redirect that money to fighting the pandemic, strengthening, healthcare, providing economic relief for the collapsing economy, and preventing climate catastrophe.
2. Support amendments proposed by Senator Schatz and others to halt the militarization of local police forces by ending the 1033 program that transfers battlefield weapons, equipment, and tactics to civilian law enforcement agencies.
3. Support Rep. Barbara Lee's amendments to end the endless wars. If those amendments fail, then you must vote “Nay” on the final bill!
Background
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) controls more than 50% of all federal spending. It also sets a wide range of national policies and priorities. Next week both the House and the Senate are scheduled to begin amending and voting on the NDAA. Republicans claim that the draft bill is a “bi-partisan” because Democrats on the Armed Services Committees voted for it. But its content overwhelmingly reflects Republican demands and priorities. For example, it:
Increases defense spending to a record-breaking $740 billion
Leaves untouched the 1033 program that militarizes civilian police departments
Fails to do anything effective to end our endless wars
Fails to hold the Pentagon accountable for how it uses taxpayer money
Ignores the climate crisis that threatens our lives and future
Fails to exert constitutionally-mandated congressional authority over war-making policy and spending.
This Republican “business-as-usual” NDAA ignores the real national emergencies we face. The pandemic is raging unchecked, hospitals are overwhelmed and under-funded, schools won't be able to safely reopen in the fall, local governments are going bankrupt, small businesses are dying, the economy is collapsing, there is massive unemployment, homelessness is rising sharply, more than 5 million newly-unemployed workers have just lost their healthcare, and the growing climate crisis threatens us with floods, fires, hurricanes, and crop-failures. The Republican response is to eliminate extended emergency unemployment benefits and cancel the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures while increasing military spending and proposing more tax-cuts for billionaires and corporations.
We want our Democratic Members of Congress to fight back. Call your Representatives and Senators now to ask them to oppose the NDAA unless it increases domestic spending and ends police militarization.
We’ve drafted a Legislative Letter outlining what we want to see in the NDAA. To add your signature to the letter use the Google form here.
Read more about the history of our ballooning defense budget on our blog post here.