BREAKING: Congress allocates billions in emergency funds to fight coronavirus

We were relieved to see Congress pass a multibillion dollar emergency coronavirus funding package yesterday as part of the U.S. response to the deepening global health crisis. But the fact remains that U.S. security spending continually fails to address real human security challenges because we’re spending TRILLIONS of dollars funding a bloated and ineffective Pentagon.

Why does the United States still think we can simply bomb our problems away?

Challenging this question is at the crux of everything Win Without War does. And my colleagues are on the Hill nearly every single day, meeting with members of Congress to demand they fight for solutions for the true crises of our time: climate change, global inequality, and pandemics like the coronavirus.

These meetings are changing minds, creating leverage, and building critical momentum. But if we’re going to successfully derail Trump’s proposed $1.2 TRILLION Pentagon budget this year, we need you with us too.


Can you chip in $4 to fuel our fight to beat back Trump’s blank check "security" budget?



Right now, even in the midst of a global health crisis, the Trump administration is proposing CUTS to critically needed public health programs:

• A 34% reduction to the State Department and USAID’s global health funding
• 7% cut from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• 58% cut in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and 
• A 50% decrease in U.S. funding for the World Health Organization

In their place, Trump’s $1.2 trillion "security" budget includes an itemized laundry list of things the world simply doesn’t need: massive funding for wars without end, a nuclear weapons spending spree, and an expanded U.S. military presence across the globe.

We’ve spent years building up an out of control military force based on the assumption that our biggest existential threats would come guns blazing. They're not.

For REAL global security, we must fund agencies and programs that address climate change, create infrastructure for public health and economic security, and support demilitarized emergency preparedness in the face of natural disasters.

Trump’s budget fails on ALL counts. That’s why Win Without War is ramping up our work to stop it in its tracks.

We’ll keep our people-first, violence-last priorities straight. We’ll fight every request to fund “usable” nukes. We’ll expose the corruption and inefficiency hiding between the line items. We’ll make sure that Congress hears from YOU, not just the arms industry and defense contractors. But to do this urgent work, we need to ask for your help.


Can you chip in $4 to fuel our fight to beat back Trump’s Pentagon budget and fund priorities that will actually make us safer?


What we fund today shapes what happens tomorrow. We simply can’t be in the business of supporting piecemeal funding requests to address breaking situations when we can support permanent, comprehensive solutions that help us avoid crises in the first place.

With the federal budget appropriations process ahead of us, we have the opportunity to address the real crises of the 21st century.

Thank you for working for peace,
Shayna, Erica, Amy, and the Win Without War team

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