News | War & Peace Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty Each new plane will cost the government $750 million that could go to housing, health care or education. By Brett Wilkins , CommonDreams December 3, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Lawmakers Set to Propose Record $847B for Defense, $45B Over Biden’s Request Antiwar and progressive advocates have strongly condemned the proposed budget, calling it a “slap in the face.” By Sharon Zhang , Truthout November 30, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Pentagon Spending Drains the National Budget and Leaves a Big Carbon Bootprint Congress’s military appropriations will, in all too many ways, cancel out the benefits of its new climate spending. By Stan Cox , TomDispatch September 22, 2022 Truthout
News | War & Peace Progressive Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Slash $100 Billion From Pentagon Budget This would likely be the largest cut to the defense budget ever seen in a single year. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 14, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Pentagon Spending on Military Contractors May Reach $407 Billion in 2022 The total is more than the federal government spent when sending $1,400 relief checks to most Americans in 2021. By Kenny Stancil , CommonDreams January 1, 2022 Truthout
Interview | War & Peace Dems and GOP Fight About Domestic Spending — But Not About Huge Military Budgets Journalist Jeremy Scahill says there's a bipartisan consensus when it comes to the military budget and intervention. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! November 24, 2021 Truthout
News | War & Peace Senate Quietly Adds $10 Billion to Pentagon Budget While Blocking Climate Action The addition alone is equivalent to the climate funding that Kyrsten Sinema wants to cut from the reconciliation bill. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout October 19, 2021 Truthout
News | War & Peace Fewer Democrats This Year Supported a 10 Percent Cut to the Defense Budget Democrats who opposed the cut received nearly 4 times more money from the defense sector than those who supported it. By Donald Shaw & Stephen Semler , Sludge September 26, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Barbara Lee Offers Amendment to Reduce Pentagon Budget by $24 Billion Progressives are sparring with moderates to reduce the Pentagon’s budget as the U.S. exits one of its longest wars. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout September 22, 2021 Truthout
Interview | War & Peace End of the Longest War in US History Should Wake Us Up to Failure of Militarism CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin warns against pursuing rivalry with China following the end of the Afghanistan War. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 25, 2021 Truthout