From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
This holiday season, more than
700,000 Americans received notice that the Trump administration would be
cutting their food stamps. Just weeks later, the Defense Department received
notice of their holiday bonus: $738 billion in spending, a $22 billion raise
over last year.
It gets worse. Not only are we
spending nearly a trillion dollars on war, but Republicans in the House
stripped an amendment that would have ended our support for the war in Yemen . That was our best shot at ending a
conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
When we spend $738 billion on war,
we rob the American people of the future they deserve. When we buy more tanks
and planes, we take away money for education. When we’re paying for drone
strikes, we’re not helping Black and Brown families stay in their homes as
gentrification skyrockets.
Our
priorities are out of line.
The Republican Party isn’t
against spending,
they’re against spending that would help all of us. They’re against spending to
build an America
where every family has a right to housing, education, and dignity.
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