Full Text of HR0544 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, President Trump has proposed to move $54 billion | 3 | | from human and environmental spending
at home and abroad to | 4 | | military spending, bringing military spending to well over 60% | 5 | | of federal
discretionary spending; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Polling has found the U.S. public favors a $41 | 7 | | billion reduction in military spending, a $94
billion gap from | 8 | | President Trump's proposal; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, President Trump himself admits that the enormous | 10 | | military spending of the past 16 years has
been disastrous and | 11 | | has made us less safe, not safer; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Fractions of the proposed military budget could | 13 | | provide free, top-quality education from preschool
through | 14 | | college; it could end hunger and starvation, convert the U.S. | 15 | | to clean energy,
provide clean drinking water everywhere it's | 16 | | needed, build fast trains between all major
U.S. cities, and | 17 | | double non-military U.S. foreign aid rather than cutting it; | 18 | | and | 19 | | WHEREAS, One hundred and twenty one retired U.S. generals | 20 | | have written a letter opposing cutting foreign aid; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, A United States responsible for providing clean | 2 | | drinking water, schools, medicine, and solar
panels to others | 3 | | would be more secure and face far less hostility around the | 4 | | world; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Our environmental and human needs are desperate | 6 | | and urgent; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Economists at the University of Massachusetts at | 8 | | Amherst have documented that military
spending is an economic | 9 | | drain rather than a jobs program; therefore, be it
| 10 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 11 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 12 | | urge the United States Congress to move our tax dollars in | 13 | | exactly the opposite direction proposed by the President, from | 14 | | militarism to human and environmental needs; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 16 | | delivered to President Donald Trump, U.S. Senate Majority | 17 | | Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck | 18 | | Schumer, U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, U.S. House of | 19 | | Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and all members | 20 | | of the Illinois Congressional Delegation.
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