Budget Matters Blog

Entries By Christian Ephriam


Defueling Red Hill Is Not Enough: It’s Time to Demilitarize the Asia-Pacific

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.


Police Violence is Gun Violence Too

If we really want to curb gun violence in this country, our nation’s police budgets are a good place to start.


While Nation Reels, Pentagon Budget Keeps Ramping Up Nuclear Weapons

In the colossal military spending budget set to pass as part of the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act, the amount spent on nuclear weapons alone over the next decade is much more than the deficit increase of the failed Build Back Better infrastructure bill.