by Maryanne Magnier Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Editor's note: At a time when the United States is in the midst of its longest war ever, with no end in sight; when the president routinely and offhandedly spouts threats of war; when the military budget is higher than at any...

Out of twelve major federal spending categories, only the military and veteran's benefits would be spared from the Trump cuts. 

The resulting federal discretinary budgets invests 54% of the federal discretionary budget in the miltiary and nuclear weapons. 

This is a president and military ramping up for war, in a country that has had more than enough. There's no other justification for the military spending Trump wants.

Is the United States doomed to keep making the same mistakes?

The priorities in Congress this week are clear: a $700 billion authorization for military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly wealthy.

Today's Senate vote to require new congressional authorization for ongoing wars may have failed - but it still represents progress.

The president's deeply disturbing tendency to glorify war has no place in determining our country's use of nuclear weapons. 

Proposals for U.S. military spending are starkly different. See how they stack up.

If President Trump has shown us anything with this budget, it’s that he will seek to increase military spending, even if he doesn’t know why he’s doing it.