Pamela: Just this summer, Trump has used the military to occupy major U.S. cities, intimidate political opponents, and run cover for a mass deportation campaign that is leaving communities in fear.
Trump's efforts to weaponize our military against the people are inflammatory, dangerous, and dictatorial. Fortunately, we're about to face a critical chance to push back.
In a matter of days, Congress will be voting on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass funding bill that sets the budget for the Pentagon, which is currently overseeing the deployments of armed federal troops to our cities and towns.
But this is no time for business as usual. Rubber-stamping the Pentagon's TRILLION dollar topline, sends a dangerous signal that Congress is fine footing the bill for Trump's power grab.
We need lawmakers to fight back against authoritarianism at every possible step, and that has to include REJECTING the NDAA. One of the surefire ways they'll be compelled to do just that? Hearing from droves of constituents, like you.
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Months after ordering 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to suppress protests in Los Angeles, Trump deployed 2,200 National Guard troops to Washington, DC in an unprecedented federal takeover — and now, even amidst rulings his LA deployments broke the law, he's threatening to rinse and repeat in Chicago, Baltimore, and New Orleans.
The impacts of Trump's violence-first policies are being felt abroad, too: the U.S. military just conducted an unauthorized, lethal strike in the Caribbean, escalating tensions with Venezuela. Just months ago, Trump brought us to the brink of all-out war in the Middle East after ordering strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. All the while, U.S. weapons continue to be used by the Israeli military against starving people in Gaza.
Trump is leaving no room for misinterpretation as he rebrands the Department of Defense as the aptly-named "Department of War." While he deploys the military to amass power and advance his political agenda, we must stem the flow of funding that makes that possible — blocking the NDAA is a powerful way to do just that.
Here's the good news: Opposition to this year's NDAA is already growing on Capitol Hill. FOURTEEN senators just voted against a simple motion just to proceed with the NDAA process earlier this week — an extraordinary action on a bill that's usually passed with huge bipartisan margins.[1]
It's a promising start, but it'll be an uphill battle to build a congressional firewall strong enough to reject the NDAA outright. Luckily, pressure from constituents like you can make a HUGE difference.
No matter what Trump tries, this president still can't change the fact that we live in a democracy. Congress — the voices of the people — should decide what happens next.
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
1. U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote #500 "On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to S. 2296 )"
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