Issue Position: Veterans and National Defense

Issue Position

The United States must prioritize people over pork barrel spending. We should base our funding decisions in decency, and provide adequate care for Veterans before funding expensive projects that mainly benefit large contractors. The military investments of the future must be focused on the areas where we have the most vulnerability. First and foremost, American must invest in greater cybersecurity. From hacking of our financial systems to interference in our elections, the US remains more vulnerable to attacks online by malicious actors than any other kind of threat. We must conduct serious and thorough investigations into how the Russian government interfered in our most recent elections and take steps to identify and neutralize such interference by hostile powers in the future. We must also use all available resources to identify and disrupt terrorist networks before they are able to launch attacks on the United States or its allies. This includes forcefully rejecting any American leaders' demonization of specific faiths, which can be used to increase recruitment for terrorism.

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