1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

The Trump administration’s proposed FY2027 budget is immoral — and it tells us exactly who this government has decided to leave behind. The White House is seeking roughly $500 billion increase in the military budget, for defense, while simultaneously slashing nondefense discretionary spending by 10% — cuts that would primarily gut housing, social services, and health care. Let that sink in: war gets a windfall while vulnerable Americans get the bill. Among the programs on the chopping block are the $4 billion Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and the $775 million Community Services Block Grant, which helps lift people out of poverty and toward self-sufficiency. These aren’t line items. They are lifelines for families who can’t keep the heat on in winter, for communities trying to climb out of generational poverty, for people who have nowhere else to turn. I am a social worker and I help people apply for these much-needed and dwindling resources every day at work. This is not fiscal responsibility. This is a deliberate decision and statement about whose lives matter. We are told this spending is necessary because of the war with Iran. But endless military escalation does not make our communities safer. It drains the very resources that do: stable housing, accessible healthcare, social support networks. The nation is already carrying trillions of debt , and this budget doesn’t even include 10-year deficit projections — obscuring the true cost from the public. I urge Congress to reject this proposal in strength. A budget that defunds the poor to fund an immoral and illegal war is not a national security strategy. It is an abandonment of the social contract.