Tag: Pentagon budget
Hegseth clamps down on Pentagon press access as military budget hits...
As the Trump administration pushes for a $1 trillion military budget, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has imposed unprecedented restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon, raising alarm over transparency, accountability, and the future of press freedom.
Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
Elon Musk stands to get even richer as Trump backs $1...
William Hartung blasts the promised budget as “completely unnecessary” and says that “almost the only beneficiaries are going to be the weapons manufacturers.”
Is America’s $1 trillion defense budget defensible amid economic struggles?
Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.
Defenseless
We want a serious change in our federal spending priorities away from destruction to actual human needs.
Progressives slam GOP’s ‘shameful’ attempt to add another $25 billion to...
"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."
Stop calling the military budget a ‘defense’ budget
Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.
‘A huge outrage’: Senate panel approves $25 billion Pentagon budget increase
“Not so incidentally, the $25 billion spending increase approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee exactly matches the cost to scale up Covid-19 vaccine production to meet global demand.”
Why the Pentagon budget never goes down
Joe Biden's first 100 days were a Pentagon prize...
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House vote moves to undo Trump orders stripping union rights from federal workers
A bipartisan majority backed the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse what labor leaders call the “single-largest act of union busting in American history,” restoring collective bargaining protections for nearly 1 million federal employees.
Winter storm exposes Gaza shelter crisis as UN warns Palestinians left to freeze
As torrential rain floods tent encampments and an 8 month old baby dies of exposure, UN officials and aid groups say Israel’s continued blockade of shelter and supplies is deepening a humanitarian emergency despite ceasefire commitments.
FBI is making an enemies list—and most corporate media didn’t even check it once
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
We need to know how corporate Democrats made President Trump possible
Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe.
Trump order targets state AI laws as critics cite Big Tech influence and federal...
A new executive order directs the Justice Department to sue states over “onerous and excessive” AI regulations and threatens funding cuts, drawing backlash from lawmakers, watchdogs, and governors who say it rewards major tech donors at the expense of public protections.