Nick Turse - The Intercept
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
Sarah Lazare and Lindsay Koshgarian - In These Times
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
Hanna Homestead - OtherWords
Deploying the National Guard against D.C.’s unhoused population costs four times more than simply housing them. And that’s true across the country.
Nick Turse - The Intercept
An analysis conducted for The Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions.
Sarah Anderson, Lindsay Koshgarian - OtherWords
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Dharna Noor - The Guardian
Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a year.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Newsweek
President Donald Trump wants to spend tens of millions on a military parade that happens to be on his birthday. At the same time, he's pushing cuts to food stamps, Medicaid, child labor enforcement, and more.
Lindsay Koshgarian - OtherWords
President Trump’s “big brutal bill” slashes SNAP and Medicaid to enrich private prison and military contractor CEOs.
Sarah Lazare - In These Times
Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian quoted
Lindsay Koshgarian, Hanna Homestead, Savannah Wooten - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every state in the nation would be devastated by the health care and nutrition cuts imposed by the Republican reconciliation bill that just passed the House of Representatives, according to a new report by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Public Citizen.
