If legislators funded ICE and CBP at those levels for the current year, combined with funding from the Big Bad Bill, the annual budgets for those agencies would total $64.9 billion (assuming the Big Bad Bill funds are spent equally over the 51 months they’re available). That amounts to a 92 percent increase over the previous highest funding level for the agencies, which was $33.8 billion in FY 2019;  a 209 percent increase since FY 2024; and a 441 percent increase since the creation of ICE in FY 2002.

What this country needs is clear: not more money for an immoral, unaccountable war fund, but more money to actually improve lives for people everywhere.

The MAGA regime has cut critical services for families while spending untold millions on imperialist wars.

The annual military spending bill paves the way for the first $1-trillion war budget since World War II, by authorizing more than $900 billion for the Pentagon on top of the $156 billion approved by Congress earlier this year.

In the midst of the shutdown, Senators were still busy. They approved a $32 billion increase for the Pentagon on a bipartisan basis, approving the increase by a vote of 77-20 as part of a larger bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.

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

Today, President Trump revealed the broad strokes of his budget request to Congress for 2026. This request does not meet the nation’s needs. 

Tonight President Trump will address Congress, and who knows what he’ll say. But it’s easy to get too swept up in what he says. Instead, watch what he does.  

If some theoretical well-meaning person or effort were looking for ways to save taxpayer dollars, Pentagon contracts would be the place to start. Musk has set his team of DOGE destroyers on agencies from USAID to the Department of Education - both of which are puny compared to Pentagon contracts.