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/