Emma Lecavalier
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We Need a Smaller Pentagon
Sorry, but we have too many other needs in this country to spend $858 billion on a department that can’t even pass an audit.
Pentagon Fails Audit, Asks for More Money (Again)
Congress is set to shell out more money to the Pentagon, in spite of the agency once again failing to show that it knows where its money goes.
FACT SHEET: No National Security without Climate Security
How Washington’s climate spending compares to its investments in the military.
The Pentagon Doesn’t Need More Money. These Things Do.
Even $100 billion is actually a modest cut when it comes to the Pentagon. We could cut much more and end up even safer.
Pentagon Increases in 2022 Could Almost Fund Build Back Better
The National Defense Authorization Act is expected to receive a full vote in July. It’s not too late for members of Congress to change course.
Only in Top Gun Can the Military Solve All Our Problems
In real life, plowing money into shiny fighter jets while Americans struggle and the climate burns makes us less safe.
It’s Almost As If Military Spending Isn’t the Key to Peace
U.S. and NATO militaries spent more than 17 times as much as Russia. Putin still waged war on Ukraine.
About That $900 You Gave Pentagon Contractors
This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?
Our Skyrocketing Military Spending Helps Pentagon Contractors—Not Ukraine
Less than one percent of the Pentagon’s new $782 billion budget is marked for Kyiv. About 50 times as much will go to for-profit corporations.
Our Military Budget Is More Lopsided Than Ever
Spending 12 times as much on our military as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home.
Biden’s State of the Union Address Showcased Disconnect in Spending Priorities
The spending priorities Biden listed in his State of the Union speech don’t match reality. It’s time to invest in the people of this country.
Will the U.S. Stoke War in Ukraine While the World Burns?
While the U.S. sends quick weapons shipments and maneuvers troops, other urgent problems go unsolved.
Congress Approved $778 Billion for the Pentagon. That Means We Can Afford Build Back Better.
Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise.
A $778 Billion Pentagon Budget is Our Lump of Coal
Congress just passed a $778 billion military budget, and failed to pass the Build Back Better plan that costs less than a quarter of that annually.
‘An Endlessly Increasing Pentagon Budget’
The end of the war in Afghanistan resulted not in a budget decrease, but more increases. Then Congress cut Build Back Better in half.
U.S. Military Contracts Totaled $3.4 Trillion Over 10 Years
Democrats are slashing the Build Back Better bill from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion over ten years. Meanwhile, Pentagon contractors have received $3.4 trillion over the past decade.
Don’t Cut the Build Back Better Plan — Cut the Pentagon’s Budget
The president’s $3.5 trillion human-needs plan is facing severe cuts from key members of Congress. So why does the military get $7.5 trillion, no questions asked?
9/11 at 20: Two Decades of Missed Opportunities
For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
State of Insecurity
The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
We’ve Spent Billions on War. Now, Let’s Spend to Bring Afghans to Safety.
The U.S. needs to focus on bringing as many Afghans as possible to safety as refugees.