Emma Lecavalier

America needs to cut military spending and reinvest that money into good jobs, clean energy, health care, and education access for all.

On Thursday the House passed a massive $2.7 trillion budget and debt ceiling bill with overwhelming support from Democrats and only 65 Republican votes.

While the funding level is much higher than we need, the NDAA the House just passed takes important steps toward ending wars, preventing dangerous military conflicts, and protecting human rights.

Twenty candidates were questioned at the first Democratic debate. Here’s what they didn’t say, but should have.

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The United States is spending $750 billion on its war machine. That money should be going to food, education, health care, and shelter for working people.

Lockheed Martin’s CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military.

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A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan.

Trump tells us we can’t afford PBS funding or preserve affordable housing, but his budget doesn’t have any trouble finding billions of dollars for the endlessly expanding Pentagon budget.

Trump has signaled his priorities. Now it’s up to Congress to intervene on behalf of the people.

Trump’s federal budget proposal is the largest in history. It includes a massive military budget, funded through cuts to programs that help poor and middle-class Americans.

Trump is requesting an unprecedented level of military spending.

While funding for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons programs soars, investment in the Department of Education and Veteran’s Affairs plummet.

If Trump declares a national emergency, he can fund his wall against the wishes of Democrats. Will he?

Here’s what we could spend it on instead.

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.

Congress has been working to pass legislation funding the federal government for months. If they don’t reach a deal by midnight Friday, one-quarter of the government will shut down.

Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it’s an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs.

As Trump threatens not to sign the appropriations bill, the battle over the border wall continues to hold up federal government funding.