The Culture Wars Are Hijacking Debate On the Military Budget
Republicans want to fill the defense bill with bans on abortion, trans health care, and racial diversity initiatives in the military.
Dwight Was Right: Congress Must Say No to Military Contractors
The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
To Clear the Air, Cut Military Spending
Most of us understand the need to cut carbon emissions. But a huge share of our tax dollars are funding the most carbon-intensive institution on the planet.
Tax Day 2023: Where Your 2022 Tax Dollars Went
IPS’s National Priorities Project takes a look at where American taxpayers’ money went in 2022, and how skewed our national priorities are.
The Biden Budget Does Some Good on Poverty and Fairness. It Could Do More if it Cut the Pentagon.
It’s clear that keeping the status quo on Pentagon spending means needlessly keeping millions mired in poverty
One of the Highest Military Budgets in History
Last week, the White House released President Biden’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2024, which begins October 1 of 2023. As usual, the biggest portion of the discretionary budget request – 52 percent – was for military spending. While that’s usual,...
Biden’s Budget Would Level the Playing Field and Reduce the Deficit
The president’s plan for jobs, families, and health reflects the things most of us value. But it should spend more on those and less on the Pentagon.
After 20 Years, the Department of Homeland Security Is a Money-Guzzling Failure
Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. government took a sharp turn toward surveillance, racial profiling, and an immigration policy based on fear. In March 2003, the newly christened Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, opened its doors. The department took...
A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors
March 9 – Today the White House released the President’s budget request, laying out the President’s priorities for the country. The $1.6 trillion discretionary spending request includes an eye-popping $886 billion for the Pentagon and military. This means...
A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors
Today the White House released the President’s budget request, laying out the President’s priorities for the country.
Seven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon by $100 Billion
We could fund programs that meet real human needs for basics like housing, food, education, and child care.
President Biden: Don’t Negotiate With Fiscal Terrorists
If Biden gives in, he’ll be as much to blame for a possible recession and spiking economic hardship as McCarthy and his party of extremists will be.
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.
From the National Priorities Project at IPS: The Pentagon has failed yet another audit, and yet Congress is preparing to give them $847 billion
Other major government agencies have long since passed audits. But the Pentagon is so big and disjointed, no one knows where its money goes.