Action Alert: Send an urgent message to your senators
On Monday, Maryamu brought us news about a new letter currently being circulated in the US Senate. This letter– which is addressed to the chairman and ranking member of the senate budget committee– asks them to protect the International Affairs Budget from cuts devastating to the world’s poorest people.
Already, the letter has bipartisan support: Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Richard Lugar (R-IN), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), George Voinovich (R-OH) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) are all signatories. Now we need your senators to sign on as well. But the deadline is coming up fast.
Our petition reads simply “Please sign the bipartisan budget letter supporting a $58.5 billion International Affairs Budget” and will be delivered to the Senate soon. You can join our effort here.
With a strong U.S. International Affairs Budget, we can eliminate malaria as a major public health problem in the world, ensure no child is born with HIV, and prevent more than 4.2 million future child deaths through vaccination. But we need to act quickly.
Thanks for all you do.
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Government-funded missionary work. Sounds like a lot of money will be slipping through the cracks