This weapons contractor CEO calls it a ‘golden opportunity’ for growth

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Pamela, Lockheed Martin’s CEO calls it a ‘golden opportunity’ for growth:

While people struggle to buy groceries, pay for rising gas costs, and afford decent healthcare, Trump aims to plow $1.5 TRILLION of our tax dollars to a record-breaking Pentagon budget, reminding us, “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.”

But Trump’s wrong if he thinks tradeoffs like these are non-negotiable.

A record $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon budget request for more weapons and war is a disastrous, deliberate choice. That’s why, as negotiations heat up over the bill that sets the topline, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Win Without War is leading the charge to build and strengthen a movement capable of demanding a different choice.

We’re fighting tooth-and-nail to push lawmakers to prioritize people’s needs over the Pentagon’s greed, we’re going all in: By mobilizing more than tens of thousands of anti-war activists who reject more funding for war, strategizing with movement partners and allies in Congress on how to win our demands, and placing ads making people aware that their elected officials could greenlight more of their tax dollars for bombs and bloodshed.

We saw how powerful our coalition can be when we pushed lawmakers to refuse funding for ICE and CBP — now we’re bringing that power to bear on the Pentagon. But as we work, the powerful weapons lobby is matching us step-for-step to protect their lucrative contracts. That’s why we need to dig deeper, and we need your help to do it.

We’re one of the only organizations working towards reducing the Pentagon budget year-round. But our small team is stretched thin, and we urgently need the resources to keep up the pressure. Can you chip in $12 now to fuel our push for peace?

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

These words ring truer than ever today, Pamela. To pay for his $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon topline, Trump needs a 10% CUT across critical domestic programs — education, public health, scientific research, national parks, and more.

Budget cuts like these will be felt by people already facing skyrocketing gas and grocery prices thanks to Trump’s reckless war on Iran, felt only deeper amidst last year’s slashes to food assistance, health care, childcare, and rental assistance.

The impacts don’t stop at our borders. Communities across the world — fishermen in Ecuador, students in Iran, farmers in Yemen, and beyond — bear the costs of a devastating $1.5 TRILLION war budget, certain only to fuel more indiscriminate violence that leaves us all less safe.

You know who benefits? Weapons contractors. They receive 54% of the Pentagon’s average annual spending — and are known to price gouge. Like when a 2024 report revealed Boeing overcharged the Air Force 8,000% for soap dispensers.[1]

Win Without War is one of the few organizations fighting back against the war lobby's stranglehold on our resources, and we’re rapidly scaling up our work — congressional briefings, ad campaigns, movement mobilizations, media appearances, in-district and Hill events, and round-the-clock advocacy to upend this failed status quo.

We’ve just seen what happens when a handful of lawmakers signal that they’ll reject business as usual when it comes to funding for ICE. That means, we’ve got a crucial window of opportunity to turn that same critical eye toward the Pentagon and upset a decades-long status quo — can you help?

With momentum and outrage growing across the grassroots and in Washington over the unjustifiable human and economic costs of war, we have a crucial window to stop Congress from handing Trump yet another massive check that will only fuel more bloodshed. Will you donate today to help us stop more of our taxpayer dollars from funding weapons and war?

Because we’re powered by thousands of people like you, Pamela, we aren’t afraid of making powerful enemies. We can run confrontational campaigns about the horrific consequences of funneling money toward more bombs, call out war profiteers and weapons lobbyists, and go toe-to-toe with the hawks on Capitol Hill.

That approach isn’t just symbolic, it’s strategic. And we’re so grateful to have you — the people — at our side.

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

1. Fox News, "$1,300 coffee cups, 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers show waste as DOGE locks in on Pentagon"

 

 

 

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