Friend,
Tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Soldiers marching in lockstep.
Lines of apocalyptic missiles on display.
A hyper-nationalist spectacle fit for a dictatorship.
This is Trump’s vision for a war parade that he’s trying to stage on June 14, the Army’s anniversary, which conveniently falls on the same day as his 79th birthday.
This isn’t about honoring service. It’s about idolizing power. And like everything Trump touches, he expects someone else to foot the bill.
Thankfully, Rep. Steve Cohen introduced H.R. 2761, the Halting All Parades for Presidents’ Yearly Birthdays; It Risks Taxpayer Harm, Damages, And Your (HAPPY BIRTHDAY) Budget Act, to block this absurd spectacle and protect your tax dollars from being squandered on personal glorification.
Congress holds the keys to the purse and can prevent even a single taxpayer dollar from being used to fund Trump’s vanity stunt. We need to flood Congress with messages from activists like you demanding they pass the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Budget Act and refuse to authorize so much as a penny toward a military parade.
Don’t think your voice can make a difference? Trump was forced to cancel the Veterans Day tank parade he proposed in 2018 because thousands of activists helped us make the very idea of funding such a spectacle politically toxic. And people across the country can make this would-be birthday parade such a headache that no future administration attempts — and no Congress funds — such an extreme and authoritarian self-congratulation ever again.
