Action Spotlight
Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead!
President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. The Congressional Budget Office says cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits in this way would save the government $163 billion over ten years. But there are much better ways for the government to save $163 billion. Email President Obama and Congress >Congress Should Require an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan
President Obama has said that we must have an “exit strategy” in Afghanistan. More than 80 Members of Congress agree: they’re supporting a bill that would require the Pentagon to report to Congress what the U.S. exit strategy is by the end of the year. This coming week, supporters of an exit strategy from Afghanistan will try to attach this language to the 2010 military authorization bill.
Please urge your Representative in Congress to support efforts next week to enact the requirement for an exit strategy into law by using the form below.