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And finally, Congress is choosing to spend twice as much on military bases in Germany ($7.5 billion last year) than on the Build Back Better proposal for hearing benefits for seniors ($3.5 billion a year). Who benefits from these choices? politico.com/news/magazine/…

Thinking about how we’ve given two whole Build Back Betters to Pentagon contractors over the last ten years: nationalpriorities.org/blog/2021/10/2…

we can't take on climate change without addressing the US Pentagon, which is the *number one* institutional emitter of planet-heating pollution. me for The Boston Globe. w/ Patrick Bigger ex machina Peace Pledge Union Lindsay Koshgarian bostonglobe.com/2021/12/23/sci…

See more outrageous comparisons between the #BBB that Joe Manchin calls "too expensive," and the colossal Pentagon budget that he easily passed, in POLITICO from our National Priorities Project director Lindsay Koshgarian and Poor People's Campaign leaders Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II & @liztheo: politico.com/news/magazine/…

This story really has not broken through but, again, ****23 million of 39 million**** Afghans already do not have enough food to eat, per aid groups The US has choked off much international aid while effectively seizing the country's government assets washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/…

Waiting for Manchin to go ballistic over the $7.5 trillion CBO says we’ll spend on the department of defense over ten years. cbo.gov/publication/57…

yea that’s what stands out on this graph

The idea that there are better alternatives to war isn't just for terrorism. Right now, the U.S. is making choices that could lead us to a similar dismal place in 20 years - or not.

Somebody out there is saying it’s not either/or. Except have you seen Washington? It totally is.

The Pentagon is slated to receive at least $7.3 TRILLION over the next decade, four times the size of the Build Back Better plan

Biden appeared to ad-lib a line about not being able to "wall off" the country from covid. The problem: that's the exact justification behind Title 42, the public health policy his admin says gives it the authority to immediately turn back asylum-seeking migrants at the border

Over the past 10 years, we have also seen a $77 billion (11%) increase in annual military spending. Maybe Democrats should get those costs down, too - and put the money into housing, healthcare, child care, and college costs. #SOTU

The world needs to listen to Zelensky: “It’s not that I want to talk to Putin,” he said. “I need to talk to Putin. The world needs to talk to Putin. There is no other way to stop this war.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/03/03/wor…

I wonder how many Covid tests, school lunches or diabetes prescriptions this cutesy graphic could have been. Your tax dollars at work.

Since the pandemic began, the US has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than global vaccine donations—i.e. the US political apparatus is far more willing to fund instruments of death than vaccines that protect life. My latest. inthesetimes.com/article/nuclea…

“America’s taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war,” said Vice President JD Vance Kamala Harris on Afghanistan, citing our research. 🧵 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

To all the pundits saying Nov. 5 means Dems should move Trump’s way on immigration: that’s not what the voters said. (Also note most folks saying that were anti-immigration before Nov. 5, too).

If this was really about debt and waste, they would have started with the Pentagon budget, which hasn't passed 7 audits in a row and makes up over 13% of the budget. The Department of Education is less than 5% of our federal budget.

At other agencies, Musk shows up with his chainsaw for a hostile takeover. At the Pentagon, with one of the largest budgets and contracts galore, he’s welcomed in for a high-level briefing on war with China. Tell me again about how this is about government waste?

This is insane. Trump just bombed Iran without Congressional approval, illegally dragging us into war in the Middle East. Have we not learned our lesson!?!? Congress must return to Washington at once to vote on Thomas Massie’s War Powers Resolution to stop this madness.