Why it matters:
Democracy doesn’t get protected by bankrolling Republicans who vote with the right wing; that money helps entrench people who oppose civil rights and accountability. This isn’t political nuance — it’s political enabling.
17 House Dems voted for Trump's $1+ trillion defense budget in September:
-Cuellar #TX28
-Davis #NC01
-Gillen #NY04
-Golden #ME02
-Gonzalez #TX34
-Gottheimer #NJ05
-Gray #CA13
-Horsford #NV04
-Kaptur #OH09
-Lee #NV03
-Delaney #MD06
-Rivet #MI08
-Mrvan #IN01
-Perez #WA03
-Sykes #OH13
-Vindman #VA07
-Whitesides #CA27
Trump said he will request a $1.5 trillion defense budget for FY27. (Total national security spending is already much higher, blowing past the $1 trillion mark many years ago.)
Do people in #WA03, #TX34, #TX28, #NJ05, #ME02, and #CA13 want federal spending to create jobs?
If so, they can ask their Blue Dog reps if they've read studies that education spending creates 3x more jobs than military spending. Healthcare more than 2x.
The conservative Democrats voted for a trillion-dollar defense budget for Trump's Department of War and defense spending in FY26, despite the Pentagon having never passed a financial audit.
https://readsludge.com/2025/09/12/blue-dog-democrats-vote-for-trillion-dollar-defense-budget/
Five Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee recently voted to approve the Trump admin's $150 billion defense budget increase for its "megabill."
AIPAC has been the top donor, by far, to two of them: Blue Dog Rep. Jared Golden of #ME02, and New Dem Rep. Don Davis of #NC01 .
https://readsludge.com/2025/05/02/five-dems-vote-with-gop-to-push-pentagon-budget-over-1-trillion/
Folks in #ME02, and ideally the Bangor Daily News, can ask Rep. Golden about the "Golden Dome" feasibility:
“Long-range interceptors have failed many tests, and those tests were considerably less rigorous than an actual attack would be…that a new initiative would do better is both unproven and unlikely,” William Hartung explained.
Not disclosed until November, PhRMA gave another $1.6 million in 2023 to the dark money group Center Forward, deeply tied to the House Blue Dogs.
The corporate-backed Democratic caucus is led by Reps. Jared Golden of #ME02, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of #WA03, and Mary Peltola, who lost her bid this year in #AK00.
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