Focus on Americans.

For decades, Washington has sent our troops, our money, and our attention overseas while problems at home went unsolved. Brown University's Costs of War project estimates the post-9/11 wars have cost around $8 trillion.

Veterans came home from those wars to a country that too often left them behind. Families watched costs rise while Congress approved billions for other nations.

At the same time, lobbies tied to foreign interests have bought outsized influence over American policy. That has to end.