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Alliyah Lusuegro
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Immigration
For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
Current military spending is higher than the height of military spending during the Reagan years at the height of the Cold War. Looking further back, the Biden request is higher than the height of the Vietnam or Korean wars, too.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
While more than half of the federal discretionary budget under the president’s proposal would go to the military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ programs, and heavily militarized homeland security programs.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
What would be possible if we had an extra $100 billion to spend on urgent human needs?
By
Alliyah Lusuegro
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Budget Process,
Military & Security
Yesterday, two anti-immigrant amendments that would have extended the legacy of the draconian Trump-era immigration policy, Title 42, each took the Senate floor for a vote. Both failed.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars?
By
Christian Ephriam
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Military & Security
It’s time for progressives to add our voices and demand demilitarization so that people in Hawai’i, Guam, Okinawa and elsewhere can live free from the environmental and human degradations imposed by the U.S. military.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Climate Change,
Military & Security
This country’s spending on the Pentagon and nuclear weapons is done in the name of “national security.” Not to mention the billions more for “homeland security,” largely in the form of immigration enforcement, deportations, and border militarization.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in Florida and Puerto Rico are without basic security after Hurricane Ian, having lost power, homes and loved ones to the latest in the string of extreme weather events that have grown more frequent and more devastating due to climate change.
By
Ashik Siddique
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Education,
Military & Security
Total student loan debt in the United States amounts to $1.7 trillion — that's already how much the Pentagon is set to spend on its most expensive weapon system, the F-35 jet fighter.
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Christian Ephriam
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Military & Security
If we really want to curb gun violence in this country, our nation’s police budgets are a good place to start.