Trump’s Illegal War on Iran Must Be Stopped
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Friends, each week, on behalf of our membership, we join coalition efforts and sign on to letters to Congress and other key decision-makers on a wide range of issues that advance progress and power to the people. Normally, I post these letters on our website rather than fill your inbox with too many emails. But today, I am sharing the letter sent to Congress: No Funding for Trump’s Illegal War on Iran.
Before I share the letter below, I want to highlight an important reason this war is illegal, unwise, uncertain, and unconscionable:
“the cost of President Donald Trump’s expanding military campaign in Iran is already rivaling and could soon exceed what it would have taken to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance subsidies that recently expired.
Let that sink in. A few weeks of war equals a year of Affordable Care Act subsidies — saving lives and supporting healthier communities.
The war is estimated to cost as much as $1 billion per day, while congressional budget analyses show that extending enhanced ACA subsidies would have cost about $30 billion for one year or roughly $60 billion for two years.”1
People Power United stands in fierce opposition to the Trump administration’s decision to bomb Iran without a declaration of war, without congressional authorization, and without the consent of the American people. The Constitution is unambiguous: the power to declare war belongs to Congress — not to one man, not to a cabinet of unelected loyalists, and not to a president who has mistaken the Oval Office for a throne.
We mourn every American life placed in harm’s way, and we grieve for the innocent civilians who will bear the cost of decisions they had no voice in making. As we have said before: “In a free democracy, no president gets to unilaterally send our sons and daughters to die without answering to Congress and to the American people. The rule of law is not optional — not now, not ever.”
Here is the letter sent to Congress on behalf of our members:
Dear U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives,
We, the undersigned 251 organizations, have a range of institutional missions and mandates, but are united in seeking an end to an unconstitutional, unauthorized U.S. war. We therefore urge you to vote against any additional funding for Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran, including the reported supplemental appropriations bill that could provide $50 billion or more for this devastating war.
By launching a war against Iran, Trump has violated the Constitution, defied international law, flouted the will of the American people, and has put millions of lives across the region at risk. A vote for President Trump’s Pentagon supplemental funding package would be a vote to commit the U.S. even further to this crisis, which has already killed seven U.S. servicemembers and nearly 2,000 people from across the region, and which endangers the lives of many more.
The Constitution assigns responsibility for authorizing war solely to Congress to ensure that the president does not unilaterally impose the costs and tradeoffs of armed conflict. Congress and the administration have slashed crucial programs as Americans experience soaring economic costs across the board. Waging a war of choice that costs an estimated $1 billion a day not only fails to address the economic squeeze and healthcare crisis facing working Americans, it also diverts federal funding that could otherwise be utilized.
The Pentagon budget already now totals more than $1 trillion, after the extra $150 billion the agency received in the tax and budget reconciliation bill. The $50 billion that the administration reportedly seeks for a new Pentagon supplemental would be enough to restore food assistance for four million Americans that was taken away in the tax and budget reconciliation bill, establish universal pre-K education, and pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing, among other possible priorities. Congress must not allow the illegal commencement of hostilities to force a de facto decision to prioritize warmaking over other needs.
The choice before Congress is whether it will choose to prevent this unconstitutional war from dragging out and potentially escalating or enabling dangerous and deadly protracted conflict. We urge you to refuse funding for this illegal war that Congress never authorized and a majority of the American people oppose.
Tell Congress: Don’t Fund Trump’s War in Iran
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https://www.newsweek.com/iran-war-costs-compared-to-aca-health-care-subsidies-11655181