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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sanders Unveils Bill to Force Pentagon to Pass Audit, Citing “Fraud” and “Waste”
Despite receiving over half of the discretionary budget, the Pentagon hasn't passed a single audit in 30 years.
Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan
A $2.3 trillion jobs plan only seems remarkable because the federal government has grown stingy toward real investment.