Blog - /blog/2025/05/12/new-mexicos-national-guard-initiative-highlights-nations-skewed-priorities/
- On April 8, 2025, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized the deployment of 60 to 70 members of the National Guard to the city of Albuquerque.
Blog - /blog/2025/05/09/good-trouble-moral-mondays-us-capitol-defend-americans-destructive-budget/
- ...spending.
Blog - /blog/2024/12/17/peace-justice-and-people-centered-budget-2024-and-beyond/
- We’ve supported the ongoing fight for a federal budget that prioritizes people and the planet over power and profit. Next year and onward, we'll continue the fight.
Blog - /blog/2024/11/25/take-7-pentagon-fails-another-audit/
- ...spending, we’ll find out whether the incoming administration and Congress are willing to hold the Pentagon accountable.
Blog - /blog/2024/03/11/militarized-funding-biden-budget-totals-well-over-1-trillion-and-it-will-grow/
- ...security we need, in terms of costs of living, quality of life, climate change, or securing peace.
Blog - /blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/
- There is an entity whose job it is to prevent this sort of abuse: Congress. With each failure at the Pentagon, Congress is failing, too.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/28/climate-militarism-converges-power-shift-2023/
- Power Shift 2023 makes space for the coming together of ideas and movements, including climate and militarism.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- ...homeland security programs.
Blog - /blog/2022/10/03/what-does-national-security-mean-without-climate-security/
- ...spending on the Pentagon and nuclear weapons is done in the name of “national security.” Not to mention the billions more for “homeland security,” largely in the form of immigr...
Blog - /blog/2022/04/13/biden-fy-2023-budget-maintains-trump-era-spending-ice-cbp/
- The Biden administration came into office promising to dismantle Trump’s harmful immigration policies. But we have been dismayed to see violent and deadly immigration enforcement policies c...
Blog - /blog/2022/01/25/climate-crisis-covid-19-pandemic-our-militarized-budget-priorities-fuel-injustice/
- While climate change fuels migration, the United States hardens its southern border instead of investing in real sources of safety for people in this country and around the world.
Blog - /blog/2021/07/02/why-bidens-foreign-policy-so-conventional/
- America is back—to the same old, same old.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/09/biden-2022-budget-raises-military-spending-past-750-billion/
- ...spending and speaks volumes about the administration's priorities. At $753 billion, Biden's requested Pentagon budget increase continues the dangerous and short-sighted path...
Blog - /blog/2020/09/16/its-pandemic-military-spending-hikes-should-be-off-table/
- Wildly profitable military contractors have been unapologetically shaking down lawmakers for pandemic cash.
Blog - /blog/2020/02/27/against-global-coronavirus-pandemic-trump-budget-keeps-militarizing-america/
- As fears grow of a global coronavirus pandemic, the United States is in a poor situation to cope. Aggressive messaging from the White House assures the public that the "full weight of the U.S. governm...
Blog - /blog/2020/02/11/trumps-2021-budget-cuts-all-federal-agencies-except-militarized-ones/
- ...spending increases, just about every non-militarized department is on the chopping block.
Blog - /blog/2020/02/10/trumps-2021-budget-gives-55-military/
- The president's 2021 budget proposal, delivered today, would put 55% of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget toward the military.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- While the Trump administration fixates on a militarized non-solution to the non-crisis at the border, the real crisis is staring us in the face: accelerating climate change. And demilitarizing the U.S...
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
