No federal funds for Medicare, Medicaid, child care and “all these individual things”, but instead
”we have to take care of one thing: military protection”: that is what Trump actually asserted at a
private Easter luncheon. Then, on Good Friday, the White House proposed a budget demanding
$1.5 trillion in military spending along with extensive privatization and draconian cuts of tens of
billions of dollars to federal programs impacting education, health care, climate control and
housing.
This is more than a moral obscenity. It is a national emergency. It is an escalation of the
imperialist war abroad and the class war at home.
Although the racist austerity and imperialist wars have long been strategies of ruling class wealth
accumulation in the belly of the beast, no President has ever stated these interests so openly.
Trump’s proposed restriction of federal funds for crucial life-affirming social programs while
increasing spending on the death producing war machine, explicitly threatening to bomb Iran
into the Stone Age, “blowing up everything over there”, is a reflection of the brute gangsterism
associated with a dying US empire.
If there ever was a time for massive public outrage against grossly misplaced priorities in
spending our federal tax dollars and ongoing war crimes, death and destruction, that time is now.
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cut, significantly.
Investments in underfunded human needs must be increased, drastically.
The supplemental $200 billion for the war on Iran, which is already draining the public
treasury of some $1.5 billion daily, must be blocked, completely
The genocide against the Palestinian people and the war on Iran and West Asia must end,
immediately.
The genocidal blockade that seeks to sabotage the Cuban revolution must be lifted,
immediately.
The imperialist interventions across the Caribbean and the extra‑judicial killings of
people in boats under the pretext of a war on drugs must cease, immediately.
President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores must be released,
immediately.
US military bases across the globe must be closed.
ICE must be abolished completely and the fascist, police and carceral attacks on our
immigrant, Black and Brown and Immigrant communities must end, immediately.
This militaristic madness, which is severely endangering the very social fabric of our
communities, and the planet,must end and be reversed.Join the growing movement to fight back against the misappropriation of our taxpayer dollars to
fuel wars and ruling-class wealth accumulation. From the pledge to withhold tax dollars for
genocide and empire and the National Day of Action – Money for Human Needs, NOT for War!
– to the Move The Money to Human Needs Campaign: we urgently need a federal budget and
federal policy that centers life over profit – policies that shift federal funds from the imperialist
war machine to peaceful purposes and unmet human needs. Instead of war, let there be a
campaign against on poverty, a campaign against inequality, a campaign against global injustice
and a campaign against manufacturing weapons and militarization.
