Tag: Pentagon budget

Bipartisan vote sends $900 billion military bill to Trump’s desk amid war powers concerns and domestic cuts.

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.

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.

William Hartung blasts the promised budget as “completely unnecessary” and says that “almost the only beneficiaries are going to be the weapons manufacturers.”

Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.

The Washington money pit...

We want a serious change in our federal spending priorities away from destruction to actual human needs.

"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."

Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.

“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.”