"It's not possible for us to take care of day care"
"It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis, you can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing. Military protection. We have to guard the country."
Trump (April 1)
Trump is asking for $500 billion more in military spending while cutting life-saving programs 13% to 19%.
Give the people 1% of that increase.
- $7 billion to prevent the most at risk persons from starving to death world-wide (WFP, 2021)
Give us that whole increase.
- $543 billion could provide a guaranteed full-time job for millions of Americans ala the WPA or CCC (CBPP.org, 2018)
Give us 1% of the proposed military budget.
- $13 billion to get every unhoused person in the U.S. an apartment for a year (Scioto, 2024)
What about the $1,000,000,000 a day we're spending on a goalless war of choice with Iran? 14 years of Tomahawk missles wasted. "1,000 targets, 1,000 missles."
- $88 billion could raise every tax paying household below the poverty line to the poverty line (Census.gov, 2026)
- $50 billion for free school lunch and breakfast for every student I'm U.S. (EducationData.org, 2025)
There's so much we CAN afford in this country. I reject that we are a rich country with such a breathtaking wealth gap. I reject the narratives of waste. I reject austerity. It's time to rescue the American Dream from the bottom up.