Annie Comes Home: We have the receipts

Friday, February 27, 2026

We have the receipts

Pamela — When communities needed healthcare and lifesaving programs, Trump slashed the funding and turned around to waste a jaw-dropping $2.9 BILLION and kill 154 people in a cynical "war on drugs" revamp in Latin America that has delivered nothing but death, destruction, and instability.

It's time we understood the full costs of the bill Trump is forcing taxpayers to pay. Luckily, Win Without War has the receipts. Literally: our team has detailed not only the astonishing costs of just six months of the largest military deployment in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis, but how that money could have saved lives instead — like how the $1.3 BILLION spent on eight warships could have been used to fund inpatient treatment for 100,000 people, with change to spare.[1]

It's the information we need to expose the full harms of Trump's criminal operation in the Caribbean — and it's created a huge opportunity to push back on this war and get our priorities back in order.

So here's the plan: We've already gone door-to-door across Capitol Hill to get this receipt in the hands of our champions. It's generating a lot of buzz, and that's why this is the moment to expand: Targeted ads in key districts, mobile billboards and posters blanketing the National Mall, and a compelling advocacy campaign that combines these facts and figures with the lived experiences of families struggling in the face of Trump's failed policies. Together, it's the kind of effort that can turn the tide on this broken approach and a war the public does not want. Are you in?

As Trump weighs strikes on Iran that could start yet another war, the potential for more violence is high, and this moment is urgent. Will you donate $12 today to help show everyone — from lawmakers, to the press, to the taxpayers footing Trump's bill — just how much we're being fleeced?

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Trump may try to sell a story of "strength" and sell us a bill of false goods, but Pamela, we've got the receipts:

Receipt showing the cost of Trump's violence-first policies in Latin America

This simple, but effective campaign captures the nearly $3 BILLION the Trump administration has spent waging a war that has failed to make anyone safer. There's no evidence that his strikes have actually slowed the flow of fentanyl into the United States. The simple reality is that recent improvements in overdose trends have been driven largely by public health interventions and international precursor control — not a failed refresh of the war on drugs.

While Trump embroils us in multiple conflicts and wars, we can enable decision-makers who can pull him off this path with the facts and human and financial costs of this violence-first playbook. Not empty rhetoric. Not hypotheticals.

Our tactics won't just grab attention — they can help shape the narrative and force accountability. This ambitious ad and advocacy campaign can keep the undeniable, unbearable costs of Trump's policies front and center. But we need your support to get it off the ground.

Bold visuals. Clear numbers. Eye-catching billboards and ads. An undeniable contrast between bombs funded and lives that could have been saved. Donate now to help us show the world the receipt for Trump's war — and build the momentum that can end the violence and begin saving lives.

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team