Hundreds of U.S. mayors have rejected the ongoing militarism supported by the present and Congress and instead called for a budget that supports “human and environmental needs.”

Over 250 Democrat, Republican, and Independent city leaders that make up the U.S. Conference of Mayors delivered their rebuke to the administration’s agenda with the passage of a series of resolutions Monday at their gathering in Miami.

President Donald Trump has proposed increasing the Pentagon budget by $54 billion, asking for $603 billion. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees, meanwhile, are set to ask for even more: $640 billion for 2018. (And those costs are unlikely to raise the eyebrows of so-called deficit hawks.)

In one adopted measure, called the “Opposition to Military Spending Resolution,” the mayors say that such proposals are the wrong way forward. It calls on “Congress to move our tax dollars in exactly the opposite direction proposed by the President, from militarism to human and environmental needs.”

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Another resolution titled “Calling for Hearings on Real City Budgets Needed and the Taxes our Cities Send to the Federal Military Budget” urges each city “to pass a resolution calling on our federal legislators and the U.S. government to move significant funds away from the military budget to human needs,” and to pass that resolution on to federal legislators.

Also tackled by the mayors is the threat of nuclear weapons. Saying it should be addressed as an “urgent priority,” another resolution calls on the federal government to ramp up diplomatic efforts and cool tensions with “Russia, China, North Korea, and other nuclear-armed states and their allies, and to work with Russia to dramatically reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles.” It further calls on the

The calls were welcomed by peace organizations who’d helped promote the resolutions.

“We are very excited that the entire U.S. Conference of Mayors, from major metropoles such as New York City and Los Angeles to small rural townships, understand that the resources being sucked up by the Pentagon to wage endless wars overseas should be used to address our crumbling infrastructure, the climate crisis, and poverty at home and abroad,” said Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK.