Issues: Federal Budget

For decades, the federal budget has supported a vision of the United States as a dominant military power. A majority of people in the United States has a different vision of the country.

FCNL advocates shifting money from the military budget to advance the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict through diplomacy and to better meet human needs for education, health care, the environment, infrastructure, and help for the most vulnerable in the United States and the world.

FCNL Launches Our Nation's Checkbook Campaign

This campaign urges Congress to save money by ending the Iraq war and investing that money in our communities at home. See how much the taxpayers in your state have spent on the Iraq war and what this money could have bought if it had instead been invested in local priorities.

Please share this information with your new or returning members of Congress. Help them see that war--and war funding--is not inevitable.

2008 Legislative Successes

1. Congress created and funded a civilian response corps, which strengthens the U.S. ability to prevent and resolve violent conflicts. Find out about what else Congress recently funded to promote peace.

2. Congress increased money available to help low-income people heat their homes, put food on the table, and send their children to college.

3. Congress expanded the Child Tax Credit to reach millions more people and extended tax credits to promote alternative energy.