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For decades, the federal budget has supported a vision of the United States as a dominant military power. The majority of people in the United States have 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.
Take Action for Peace: The Real Deficit Buster
For the first time in decades, real cuts in Pentagon spending could be on the agenda.
In June, a bipartisan group of representatives —Democrat Barney Frank (MA) and Republican Ron Paul (TX) -- presented specific recommendations for cutting almost $1 trillion from the Pentagon’s budget over the next ten years.
Now Reps. Frank and Paul are asking their congressional colleagues to sign a letter calling on President Obama’s deficit commission to put military spending on the table. The letter will be open for signatures only until mid-September. Please ask your representative to sign it today.
What's Happening?
FCNL Launches Our Nation's Checkbook Campaign
This campaign urges Congress to save money by ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and investing that money in our communities at home.
The President's 2011 Budget Proposal Released
The budget proposal would increase Pentagon spending by more than 4%, spend more money on wars, and freeze funds for some domestic programs.
Find out more in Ruth Flower's analysis of the president's budget proposal - numbers in this table corrolate to the pie chart on the Proposed FY2011 Federal Budget.
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