Washington, D.C. – USAction and its online project, TrueMajority.org today embraced U.S. Rep. Barney Frank’s call for significant cuts to obsolete weapons systems –a direction that stands in sharp contrast to eight years of George W. Bush’s bloated and wasteful military budgets.

“Money is policy,” said TrueMajority.org Director Matt Holland. “Unfortunately, for too long now our policy and our tax dollars have favored often obsolete and unnecessary weapons systems over the critical needs of the people. We need an honest and objective assessment of what constitutes true security in this country. Is it jobs? Health care? Homes safe from foreclosure? Or is it weapons systems that increasingly are compromising our ability to invest in our families and communities?”

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is expected to call for a 25 percent cut in military spending. He is expected to make his presentation at a panel and press conference scheduled for 10 a.m. in Room 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. TrueMajority’s 700,000 members have launched a campaign to scrutinize military spending – and to support President Obama’s call to cut programs that don’t work, starting with waste in the Pentagon.

Holland said the exact size of the military budget cut is not as important as the point Congressman Frank is making – that government programs must be scrutinized not in terms of their size but rather their sensibility. “The Cold War ended decades ago, but the campaign to turn our country and our economy around has just begun,” he said.

USAction and TrueMajority.org build power by uniting people locally and nationally, on-the-ground and online, to win a more just and progressive America. We create the nation's leading progressive coalitions, making democracy work by organizing issue and election campaigns to improve people's lives. Members of the media who wish to interview TrueMajority.org Online Director Matt Holland should contact David Elliot at (202) 607-7036.