“If budgets are value statements, today’s White House proposal for Pentagon spending shows that we have a lot of work to do,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) wrote in a statement Monday night.

“It’s a mistake,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told The Daily Beast. “I think there is so much investment in overcompensating on an optic that we’re actually participating in doing harm.”

Jayapal told reporters it’s “unconscionable” that lawmakers often determine there’s not enough money for funding education reforms or child care, “and then somehow all those concerns evaporate when it comes to the budget—the defense spending.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wrote in a statement that “we are already spending more on the military than the next 11 countries combined, no we do not need a massive increase in the defense budget.”