This is a plea to the common sense of Everyday Americans

Congress has sold us out to weapons manufacturers, war profiteers, and endless wars. The Pentagon gets way more money than it needs to defend the territory of the US, and we don’t get the great schools, good affordable housing, reasonably priced daycare, and top-notch healthcare we need.

That’s crazy.

America needs a strong defense. But excessive Pentagon expenditures and endless wars don’t make us any safer. In fact, many of our country’s decorated military experts believe they weaken us as a nation.

  • Maj. Gen. Dennis Laich

    U.S. Army and USA Reserve (Ret.)

  • Col. Lawrence (Larry) Wilkerson

    U.S. Army and Chief of Staff to Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.)

  • Col. Ann Wright

    U.S. Army and State Department (Ret.)

  • LTC Karen Kwiatkowski

    U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

  • LTC William (Bill) Astore

    U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

  • Special Agent Coleen Rowley

    FBI Intelligence (Ret.)

  • Ray McGovern

    Former CIA leader, Soviet Foreign Policy Branch

  • CMD CMSgt Dennis Fritz

    U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

  • Capt. Matthew Hoh

    Former U.S. Marine Corps and State Department

  • Capt. Dan Grazier

    Former U.S. Marine Corps

  • Mike Merryman-Lotze

    Global Policy Director, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

The US Overwhelmingly Outspends the World on War

The US spends more on war and war preparations than the next nine countries combined.

1000 750 500 250 0 $997 BILLION Japan $55B France $64B Ukraine $64B Saudi Arabia $80B U.K. $81B India $86B Germany $88B Russia $148B China $313B

Military Expenditure in Billion Dollars

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City.

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“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Jesus Christ

A Budget is a Moral Document

The U.S. Budget represents our country’s values. Our leaders are dragging us deeper into war and conflict across the globe – at the expense of safer bridges, better schools, and a cure for cancer.

MISC. 18.6% H.U.D. 1.9% EDUCATION 3.7% H.H.S. 5.2% V.A. 10.5% D.H.S. 6% PENTAGON IncludingReconciliationResources_ 54.1%

2026 Proposed Federal Discretionary Budget
Over Half of the U.S.’s Federal Discretionary Budget goes to the Pentagon.

How Much Money Are We Talking About?

This spring, a $67 Million dollar jet fell into the Red Sea. That sounds like a lot of money, until you consider that if the Pentagon budget were a box of Cheerios, the US military only lost 1/10 of a single Cheerio.

What’s crumbs to the Pentagon could have built a hospital in rural Texas, West Virginia, and Louisiana.

A good example of what we’re talking about is nuclear weapons.

The nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 100,000 people. The world said never again. 

The current US nuclear arsenal has the explosive power of 50,000 Hiroshima bombs.

Our government is planning to spend $2 Trillion on a whole new generation of nuclear weapons. 

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

Ronald Reagan

Reagan-Gorbachev Joint Statement, 1985

“There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons; we already have so many.”

Donald Trump

The Big Beautiful Bill includes a down payment on $2 Trillion of NEW nuclear weapons.

The United States’ Nuclear Overkill: A Demonstration

Why can’t we invest in the American Dream?

We have all the money we need to create a good life for all Americans. For half the money we spend on nuclear bombs, we could stop poisoning kids with lead, provide funding for public schools, and make childcare affordable.

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