
Debt Ceiling Deal Reinforced Washington’s Old Double Standard for Military Spending
The budget deal was supposed to slow spending, but the most expensive federal agency didn’t get a budget cut — it got a raise.
The budget deal was supposed to slow spending, but the most expensive federal agency didn’t get a budget cut — it got a raise.
Conservatives weaponized the debt deal to consolidate power. Let’s use the budget to create new power structures.
FDR put the kibosh on military contractor windfalls during World War II. We could do the same.
The budget deal struck by the White House and House Republicans could set a damaging precedent.
There’s an urgent need to stop funding wars and human rights abuses abroad and to free up funding for human needs at home. The Freedom Caucus can’t be counted on for either.
We could fund programs that meet real human needs for basics like housing, food, education, and child care.
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.
Other major government agencies have long since passed audits. But the Pentagon is so big and disjointed, no one knows where its money goes.
How Washington’s climate spending compares to its investments in the military.
The military industrial complex is costly and inefficient. It’s time to cut the defense budget and end its wasteful practices.
Lockheed Martin’s CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military.
Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
The president says he’ll protect our interests against the boondoggle weapons makers. Don’t believe him.
Sanders would find plenty to get rid of in America’s bloated defense budget.
The military-industrial complex is driving America to the poorhouse.