No one is above the law.
Pamela — Congress ordered an end to the disastrous, illegal Iran War. Trump escalated anyway, with renewed strikes and horrifying threats to bomb civilian infrastructure. What happens next is crucial:
A series of votes in Congress could unleash more than a TRILLION additional dollars for the Pentagon. But Trump can’t wage a war he can’t pay for, so we need to push lawmakers to REJECT authorizing so much as a single dime more towards Trump’s wars.
With each letter to Congress, petition signature, and call to a lawmaker’s office, our anti-war majority is building the political pressure for elected officials to pull Trump off the course to endless war. Our voices got us a first-of-its-kind war powers resolution (WPR). Now, let’s use them to block more taxpayer dollars from fueling weapons and war.
Whether this is your first time taking action or you’ve spoken out with us many times before, it’ll take all of us working together to put — and keep — continued pressure on lawmakers to ensure they act urgently. Tell Congress: Not one more dime for Trump’s Wars!
Pamela, we don’t need to tell you that this war is flatly illegal.
We don’t need to convince you that if Trump carries out the threats he’s made, the lives of Iranian civilians, U.S. servicemembers, and people across the region will be put at incredible risk. Or that the billions Trump has wasted on war could be funding healthcare, education, housing, and more instead.
But we will remind you that your voice makes a difference.
Just last June, our movement pulled Trump back from the brink of war. Our non-stop advocacy, petitions, and calls pushed Congress to pass an unprecedented WPR last month. Our voices created the political space for a life-saving ceasefire. Now, as Trump ignores the law and violence resumes, we can’t let up.
Every vote counts: A $1.15 trillion weapons and war budget set under the National Defense Authorization Act. $67 billion in supplemental funding for Trump’s Iran War. Appropriations bills that allocate our resources to the Pentagon. As Trump tries to carry out a violent foreign policy against the will of the people, we need to make sure lawmakers resoundingly vote ‘No’ each and every time taxpayers are asked to foot the bill.
Regardless of whether your members of Congress are champions of our pro-peace advocacy, on the fence, or hellbent on greenlighting more bombs and bloodshed, we need everyone speaking out to make our anti-war demands echo unmistakably through the halls of Congress. Click here to tell your lawmakers to REJECT funding for Trump’s warmongering.
The irony is not lost on us, Pamela. On this day eleven years ago, the Iran nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — was created. It was a deal meant to avoid wars just like this one. It’s a deal that Trump tore up. And today, amidst the prospect of another devastating, endless conflict, it serves as a reminder that diplomacy is the only choice.
Diplomacy is how we foster peace. Diplomacy is how we will prevent a world full of nuclear weapons. Diplomacy is how we can provide relief to the Iranian people. That’s why we are going all out to push for the life-saving diplomacy that we deserve and prevent Congress from making a down payment on more violence.
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
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