7/31/2019 Pentagon Spending Strategy and Sequester - Sample Press Release

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Sample Press Release

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LOCAL ACTIVISTS HOLD PRESS AVAILABILITY TO OPPOSE Senators / RepresentativesBOUGHT- AND-PAID-FOR PENTAGON SPENDING PLANS

[Names Of Groups, People] Convening Outside Congressmans Town Hall To Oppose Plan to

Protect Fat Cats Over NationalSecurityCITY-- On DATE at LOCATION, local activists from TKTK will HOLD A PRESS AVAILABILITY /

RALLY to protest attempts by SENATOR/REPRESENTATIVE/PUBLIC OFFICIAL to avoid the hard

choices of a bipartisan law signed last year that requires mandatory spending cuts across all branches of

government, including the Department of Defense. NAME OF PEOPLE/GROUPS believe the

CONGRESSPERSON and HIS/HER colleagues should seek a comprehensive, balanced deficit-

reduction plan that puts Pentagon spending on the table to promote American securityincluding

economic securityand preserve key middle class programs or jobs so important to STATE citizens.

GROUPS/PEOPLE will attend the town hall to express their opposition to the CONGRESSPERSONS

plan, which puts tax breaks for millionaires and Defense Department spending that the Pentagon says it

does not want before Americas economic security and the middle classincluding the TKTK millionmeals that would NOT be served to needy NUMBER STATE seniors, the NUMBER STATE women

would NOT receive cancer screenings and the NUMBER STATE veterans who would NOT receive

employment assistance if automatic cuts were triggered. Automatic cuts on the defense industry and

homefront investments like education, bridge-building and fire-fighting threaten to go into effect next

year as a result of a law that House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA),

Senate Armed Services Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) and an overwhelming majority of their

colleagues on both sides of the aisle voted for last year.

Activists will explain their agreement with Chairman Dempsey, Admiral Mullen and former Secretary

Gates that America can only be leaders abroad if we are strong at home. PEOPLE/GROUPS will discuss

our shared view with these military and national security leaders, supporting reductions in the rate of

growth of the Pentagon, including those in the Obama administration budget proposal which avoids

triggering the automatic cuts through a balanced approach. As we end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is

time to reinvest in the long-term economic security. Any serious plan to avoid sequester must be

balanced, taking the Pentagon into account and considering revenues as well as cuts.

WHAT: PRESS AVAILABILITY/RALLY to protest CONGRESSPERSONS plan to put tax breaks formillionaires and spending the Pentagon does not want before Americas economic security and the

middle class

WHO:

WHEN:

WHERE:

To RSVP or to speak with local leaders or national experts, contact TKTK.

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