Thursday, January 16, 2025

Tag: Pentagon budget

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.

FLASH! Pentagon fails audit! (again!)

The Washington money pit...

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.

Just 1 percent of the US Pentagon budget could end world...

The war machine must go on and keep on growing or, more than likely they'll end up out of an occupation.

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