As the first year of Trump’s second term comes to a close, here are ten examples of MAGA’S excessive, wasteful, inhumane, and unstrategic militarized spending in 2025. 

The Paris Agreement, adopted on December 12, 2015, was supposed to catalyze global investment in climate finance to assist the world’s most vulnerable and historically exploited countries combat the worsening climate crisis. Instead, over the past decade, Congress has approved roughly 40 times more taxpayer dollars to subsidize weapons companies than support...

This Election Day, progressive ideas swept the polls this month on Election Day. Across multiple elections at the state and local government levels, voters chose pro-people and planet agendas over militarism, fossil fuels, and billionaire corporate interests. 

Once again, the MAGA regime is prioritizing billionaire Pentagon contractors over struggling families.   President Trump and the MAGA regime are weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans by refusing to fund SNAP during the Republican-led government shutdown, resulting in the first ever lapse of food stamp benefits beginning on November 1. ...

It doesn’t have to be this way. Alternative investments that build a more secure and equitable society for everyone are necessary and possible.

Here are ten programs President Trump has cut (or threatened to cut) that we could save for about $45 million or less.trill

President Trump is requesting a record-high $1.01 trillion “defense” budget for FY 2026 while gutting federal agencies and social services that actually keep the country safe – things like clean air and water protection, Medicaid, child nutrition, the Department of Education, green energy, and so much more.   The U.S. already...

While the continuing resolution is a step in the wrong direction, we must stay focused on an even bigger fight ahead: budget reconciliation.   

The COP29 climate summit concluded over the weekend with a new global target for international climate finance. The U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities to fund life and the well-being of our planet, not war. We won't stop.

Addressing police violence in our communities requires reckoning with America’s militarized foreign policy that leads to wars abroad and at home.