Action alert: A raise for nukes?

 In Action Alert, Nuclear Weapons

Join the National Call-in Day

Two new bills give Congress an opportunity to step up and make cuts to nuclear weapons.

The president’s budget request for 2015 shows that his priorities are still dangerously backwards, asking for yet another increase for nuclear weapons while crucial domestic spending continues to be slashed.

Our allies in Congress are stepping up to take these misguided priorities head on. Companion bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that would save $100 billion in the next ten years by cutting nuclear weapons and related programs. In the Senate, Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-MA) bill is the SANE Act (S. 2070) and in the House, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has introduced the REIN-IN Act (H.R. 4107).[1] We need you to call your representatives right now to get them on board to cut nukes.

Click here to call your representatives right now and tell them to cosponsor these important bills.

If Congress grants the request for a 7% increase in the nuclear weapons budget this year, it would be one of the only parts of the entire federal budget that would get such a large increase in its budget. How would you like to get a 7% raise this year? Or for your child’s school to get a 7% increase in its budget? Call your representatives to tell them that nuclear weapons are the last thing that should get a raise this year.

Sen. Markey and Rep. Blumenauer have stepped up to introduce bills that would challenge these insane spending increases, and save $100 billion that should be spent in our communities. Organizations all over the country are working together to urge members of Congress to cosponsor these bills and stand for cutting nukes. Our calling tool makes it quick and easy for you to join the National Call-in Day.

Click here to call your representatives and tell them to cosponsor the SANE and REIN-IN Acts to cut nukes spending.

[1] Click here for the text of the SANE Act.
And for the text of the REIN-IN Act.

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