Blog - /blog/2025/07/18/want-government-efficiency-restore-medicaid-and-audit-pentagon/
- The Republicans in Congress have used a charade of government efficiency to justify funding reductions in these anti-poverty and anti-hunger programs.
Blog - /blog/2025/07/16/5-ways-trump-administration-militarizing-our-immigration-system/
- Since taking office this year, President Trump and his administration have been unapologetically loud and harmful about immigration. And they’re using the U.S. military to help do all of it...
Blog - /blog/2025/06/09/ten-things-we-could-fund-instead-military-parade/
- Here are ten programs President Trump has cut (or threatened to cut) that we could save for about $45 million or less.trill
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/2025/03/04/watch-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/
- 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.
Blog - /blog/2024/12/17/peace-justice-and-people-centered-budget-2024-and-beyond/
- ...federal budget that prioritizes people and the planet over power and profit. Next year and onward, we'll continue the fight.
Blog - /blog/2024/12/09/organizing-and-mutual-aid-are-answers-peace-climate-summit-was-anything/
- Militarism and fossil fuel dependency are inextricably linked– yet world leaders ignored this reality when they gathered to hash out global climate goals at the so-called ‘peace&rsquo...
Blog - /blog/2024/11/26/after-cop29-whats-next-international-climate-finance/
- The COP29 climate summit concluded over the weekend with a new global target for international climate finance. The U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities to fund life and the well-being of o...
Blog - /blog/2024/03/11/militarized-funding-biden-budget-totals-well-over-1-trillion-and-it-will-grow/
- While the larger budgets makes some important strides forward, this discretionary proposal won’t provide security we need, in terms of costs of living, quality of life, climate change, or securi...
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/2023/10/25/israel-ukraine-border-whats-bidens-105-billion-military-bill/
- An extra $105 billion in mostly military spending is no small matter, especially on top of the $886 billion military budget that has been working its way through Congress this year. So, how did t...
Blog - /blog/2023/07/06/july-fourth-lets-celebrate-reimagining-immigration-policy/
- It’s not too late for President Biden to set a precedent of treating migrants with care, dignity, and respect, and request that Congress cut spending on deportations and detentions.
Blog - /blog/2023/06/28/peek-poor-people-campaigns-moral-poverty-action-congress/
- Last week, hundreds of people from the Poor People's Campaign assembled in Washington DC to fight against poverty.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/31/parity-schmarity-military-big-winner-fy-2024-budget-deal/
- ...federal spending from domestic programs toward the Pentagon.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors alone last year.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/27/biden-budget-does-some-good-poverty-and-fairness-it-could-do-more-if-it-cut-pentagon/
- ...federal programs for housing, education, public health, and more.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/20/immigration-policy-doesnt-have-be-way/
- For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- ...federal discretionary budget under the president’s proposal would go to the military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ programs, and heavily militarize...
Blog - /blog/2022/08/01/police-violence-gun-violence-too/
- If we really want to curb gun violence in this country, our nation’s police budgets are a good place to start.
Blog - /blog/2022/05/26/no-digital-prisons-or-physical-cages/
- The Biden administration continues to support increased funding for ICE’s e-carceration and surveillance programs — so-called “Alternatives to Detention.” We must def...
