TAKE ACTION: Call Congress and Tell Them To Tighten the Pentagon Budget

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA). This proposed NDAA would spend $640 billion more than permitted by law, $billions more than the Pentagon has asked for. This is unconscionable!

Please call your Representative at 202-224-3121 and tell him or her to support amendments to audit and tighten the Pentagon budget (while protecting healthcare and other programs for troops and veterans), rein in the lethal dronesprogram, and end the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that gave a green light to the past decade of endless warfare.

Use your own words, but please emphasize that in this era of austerity–with sequester-driven cuts to Food Stamps, education, healthcare–many in Congress want to throw money at the Pentagon. Please ask your Representative to support pending amendments which would:

* Audit the Pentagon

* Cut Pork–unnecessary boondoggle weapons systems including the F-35 fighter plane, the V-22 Osprey device and the Abrams tank.

* Eliminate nuclear weapons and provocative foreign military bases

* Rein in the lethal drones program

* End the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)

Call your Representative’s DC office at 202-224-3121, starting Monday between 9 AM and 6 PM ET (6 AM and 3 PM PT). Find their district office number. You can also use PDA’s action alert to support H.R. 198 to Repeal the AUMF.