Kyle Powys Whyte wrote this article for The Decolonize Issue, the Spring 2018 issue of YES! Magazine. Kyle is Potawatomi and holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University.
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.