Tag: Pentagon budget
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...
Senate proposes almost $700 billion for the Pentagon while millions of...
With the current unemployment rate reaching roughly 6.8 million and nearly 8 million Americans facing eviction, the government should be focusing on its citizens and not a defense budget.
National (in)security and the Pentagon budget
A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first.
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The real evil empire may surprise you
Serving in (or thinking about) the U.S. military for 40 years.
One in ten Americans lives in a sinking city, new study finds
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure, flood safety, and climate resilience.
Millions would lose Medicaid under GOP cuts, says new CBO report
A nonpartisan analysis shows Republican efforts to slash Medicaid by $880 billion would strip healthcare from millions of low-income Americans in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans
Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?