Trump's FY 2027 Pentagon budget request includes $95 billion for munitions, which - if passed - would be 20% more than the U.S. Department of Education’s entire 2026 discretionary budget. Each of the missiles the Department of War wants to produce cost millions of taxpayer dollars. To break down the enormity of these per-unit costs, we provide examples of social programs that could be funded for the price of a single PrSM, Tomahawk, and THAAD missile, sourced from the National Priorities Project’s trade-off calculator.

The president’s budget request throws the vast wealth of this country in the hands of weapons contractors while providing almost nothing for struggling Americans. It requests a $445 billion, or 42 percent, increase for war, bringing the total war budget to an unprecedented $1.5 trillion. 

Our tax dollars should be helping struggling Americans, not feeding new forever wars. 

According to a recent estimate, daily Iran war costs of $1 billion/day would be able to fully cover: Medicaid for all 16 million people expected to lose it as a result of GOP budget cuts, AND food stamps for all 41 million people who rely on them.

Our tax dollars should support families, not bomb them.

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.

Across the country, communities are calling out the administration’s lawlessness - both in its brutal immigration enforcement and its reckless intervention in another country.

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

At the 10 year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, U.S. climate commitments are being swallowed up by military spending.