Bernie Sanders is leading the way to stop Trump's new arms shipment to Israel & Sign the petition: Trump wants the biggest military spending increase in 70 years 8&9APR26

THE US military-industrial-prison complex is pushing the corrupt drumpf / trump-vance administration and the gop / greed over people-republican party to further slash funding for our nation's social safety net and the American social contract and allocate those funds to weapons systems, for funding and supplying foreign "allied" militaries and for funding illegal and immoral military actions in the Caribbean and wars we should not be involved in nor supporting on Iran. This administration and the republican controlled congress are not going to revoke the tax breaks granted to the billionaires and multi-millionaires in the bbb, they plan on funding this $660 million in weapons and ammunition for the neo-nazi fascist genocidal Israeli government of hitler incarnate wannabe bibi netanyahu PLUS $1.5 trillion for the US Military by cutting funding for every program for the general American public ( including healthcare and SNAP ) not affiliated with the US military-industrial-prison complex. Please call and / or e mail your representative and senators telling them to stop the $660 million in bombs to Israel and to stop the obscene $1.5 trillion military budget. My e mails are at the end of this post.

This morning, Israel launched the most brutal bombing campaign against Lebanon since the start of the war.1 Meanwhile, Israel has devastated civilian infrastructure in Iran while stepping up attacks to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank.2,3 And now Donald Trump is trying to bypass Congress and sneak another $660 million in bombs for Israel.4 Enough is enough. The United States must stop spending our taxpayer dollars on Benjamin Netanyahu's war machine. The Senate is about to vote on a resolution sponsored by Bernie Sanders to block Trump's "emergency" $660 bomb shipment to Israel, and with your help, we're ramping up the pressure on every senator to join Bernie and say no to more bombs for Israel.5 Senator Sanders' joint resolutions of disapproval seek to block the sales of 5,000 250-pound bombs; 10,000 500-pound bombs; and 12,000 1,000-pound bombs. If a majority of U.S. senators join with him, we can block this $660 million arms giveaway.6 Large majorities of Americans support cutting off military aid to Israel.7 With Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran spiraling out of control, that opposition is growing fast. But winning this vote will be a huge lift. AIPAC and other big pro-Israel lobby groups are pushing hard to keep the bombs and money flowing to Israel's war machine. That's where we come in. With your help, we've been able to flood Capitol Hill with phone calls and petition signatures. Now we need to ramp it up. Thanks for taking action, Joey and the team at Demand Progress Action DONATE Sources: 1. BBC, "Israel carries out large wave of air strikes across Lebanon," April 8, 2026. 2. BBC, "Tracking recent US-Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure," April 7, 2026. 3. Al Jazeera, "What's happened in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the Iran war?," March 13, 2026. 4. Common Dreams, "US Argues 'Emergency' of Iran War Means Israel Needs 20,000+ More Bombs Without Congressional Approval," March 7, 2026. 5. Politico, "Bernie Sanders to force disapproval votes over U.S. arms sales to Israel," March 19, 2026. 6. Senator Bernie Sanders, "NEWS: Sanders Files Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to Block Nearly $660 Million in Bomb Sales to Israel," March 19, 2026. 7. Politico, "Majority of Americans disapprove of US-Israel military alliance, new poll shows," August 27, 2025. TELL Congress: Trump wants $1.5 trillion for his military budget to fund his criminal wars. It would be the biggest military spending increase in 70 years — and would come with deep cuts to health care and social services. Sign the petition: REJECT Trump's massive military budget! ADD YOUR NAME Trump's budget proposal demands $1.5 trillion in military spending — the largest increase in 70 years.1 "It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things," Trump said recently. "We have to take care of one thing: military protection."2 Besides Trump's wars killing thousands, displacing millions, and causing wholesale destruction, the White House now wants to use war as a reason to continue Project 2025 and slash government services. Trump made deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and a wide array of critical government services last year, while handing tax breaks to the rich and corporations, and fueling ICE violence across the country. Congress must outright reject Trump’s absurd military spending. Sign the petition: Say NO to Trump's disastrous budget proposal — NO funding increases for war and NO cuts to health care! ADD YOUR NAME In addition to war funding, Trump and Russ Vought (an architect of Project 2025 and head of the White House budget office) are proposing a "historic investment" in the Department of Homeland Security, even after giving ICE tens of billions of dollars last year to terrorize communities and build more torture prisons.3 Trump and Vought have spent the last 14 months gutting government agencies, exploiting federal shutdowns to threaten funding to Democratic-led states, and defunding health care and social services.4 Congress must forcefully oppose increases in military and ICE funding, as well as cuts to social services. Sign the petition: Reject Trump's war budget now. Thanks for taking action, Joey and the team at Demand Progress DONATE Sources: Common Dreams, "'A Moral Obscenity': Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost With Billions in Cuts to Social Programs," April 3, 2026. Jacobin, "Trump's $1.5 Trillion for War Comes From Americans' Pockets," April 6, 2026. Common Dreams, "'A Moral Obscenity': Trump Budget Pairs Record Military Boost With Billions in Cuts to Social Programs," April 3, 2026. Federal News Network, "Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other," October 14, 2025.

MY E MAIL TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN MARK WARNER D-VA AND SEN TIM KAINE D-VA ON THE SALE OF BOMBS TO ISRAEL

The drumpf / trump-vance administration's plans to give the neo-nazi fascist genocidal government of Israel $660 million in bombs to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza must be blocked. This transfer of armaments must also be stopped if Israel decides to pay for it, most likely it would be paid for with American tax dollars anyway. No more funding and supplying weapons and armaments for neo-nazi fascist bibi netanyahu's war crimes and crimes against humanity in my or any American's name.

Thank you 

MY E MAIL TO REP SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH, SEN MARK WARNER D-VA AND SEN TIM KAINE D-VA

I expect you to vote against the neo-nazi fascist drumpf / trump-vance regime's obscene $1.5 trillion Dept of Defense budget request. I expect you to vote against it even if the request is halved, there is no moral justification to slash funding of social safety net programs and American social contract programs to pay for illegal and immoral "military actions / wars" that only increase the profit margins of the military-industrial complex and the billionaires and multi-millionaires who own it. Pres Eisenhower warned America in his "Beware the Pentagon" speech, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." --Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Rev Dr Martin Luther King also warned America,  "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.  I also expect  you to work with the entire Virginia to defeat this obscene and immoral Dept of Defense budget request and our nation's slide to spiritual death.

Thank you,