SANDERS, WARREN, OCASIO-CORTEZ, AND OTHER LAWMAKERS SIGN PLEDGE TO END AMERICA'S ''FOREVER WARS'' [View all]

March 4 2019, 11:35 a.m.

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EIGHT MEMBERS OF Congress have taken a pledge to work to bring ongoing U.S. global military conflicts to a “responsible and expedient” end, the result of a first-of-its kind lobbying effort by military veterans on Capitol Hill.

The pledge was written and organized by a group called Common Defense, made up of veterans and military families, that advocates for scaling back U.S. military commitments overseas. Common Defense boasts of more than 20,000 veteran members in all 50 states, and it threw its endorsement behind almost 30 candidates in the last midterm election cycle.

All of the signatories so far are members of the Democratic caucus, and most of them are associated with the left wing of the party: Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; Omar and other freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna, and Rashida Tlaib; and Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Mark Pocan.


Members of Common Defense meet with Sen. Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2019. Photo: Ryan Harvey/Common Defense


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