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/2022/04/11/climate-justice-movement-must-be-anti-war-notes-antiwar-organizers/
- No matter your specific organizational or ideological affiliation, anyone who cares about climate change today ought to understand the critical connections between war, imperialism, and the climate cr...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/25/climate-change-worsens-united-states-under-delivers-finance-hardest-hit-countries/
- ...military spending soars.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/09/whats-fy-2022-budget-deal-military/
- ...military and underfunding domestic and human needs, providing $782 billion for the miltiary and only $730 billion for domestic priorities.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/16/military-aid-ukraine-balloons-real-solutions-diplomacy-human-needs/
- ...military spending, on top of an already record high military budget.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/03/bidens-state-union-address-showcased-disconnect-spending-priorities/
- ...military spending is routinely larger than spending on early childhood education, public K-12 education, job training, housing, public health, and medical and scientific research combined.
Blog - /blog/2022/02/18/biden-may-push-military-budget-above-800-billion-do-you-feel-safe-yet/
- It’s unconscionable to pour more money into the Pentagon while the country comes apart at the seams. There’s still time for the Biden administration to pull back and stop the endless spend...
Blog - /blog/2022/02/09/we-shouldnt-have-rely-national-guard-basic-services/
- ...military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- The House passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2022/01/31/will-us-stoke-war-ukraine-while-world-burns/
- ...military solutions, and a heap of other dire problems are being relegated to lower priority status in the meantime. It’s time for the U.S. to evolve - to look for diplomatic solutions, and start...
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/2022/01/21/invest-climate-solutions-now-or-pay-deadly-costs-inaction-later/
- A new study finds that the United States experienced 20 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021. The damages from these 20 costly disasters totaled $145 billion. ...
Blog - /blog/2022/01/17/martin-luther-king-jrs-internationalist-vision-more-crucial-ever/
- ...military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” If we take King’s words seriously...
Blog - /blog/2021/12/21/778-billion-pentagon-budget-our-lump-coal/
- What if you wanted less child poverty, better health care, more help with child care and elder care, and at least a gesture toward a solution to the climate crisis? And what if instead you got a $778 ...
Blog - /blog/2021/10/28/us-military-contracts-totaled-34-trillion-over-ten-years/
- Source: Chart by National Priorities Project, data from USAspending.gov. As Democrats negotiate the Build Back Better bill from $3.5 trillion (over ten years) down to $1.75 trillion over ten yea...
Blog - /blog/2021/10/20/hypocrisy-federal-spending-debate/
- Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
Blog - /blog/2021/10/06/immigration-cruelty-goes-beyond-border/
- Migrants are hit long before they migrate, before they reach the border, and often long after they cross it.
Blog - /blog/2021/10/07/three-ways-cut-1-trillion-pentagon-according-congressional-budget-office/
- Today the Congressional Budget Office released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutt...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/22/cut-pentagon-budget-ten-percent-fy-2022/
- ...military policy, and military budget. And, based on actions taken so far by the House Armed Services Committee, the House is positioned to approve nearly $780 billion in military spending. ...
Blog - /blog/2021/09/21/npp-trade-offs-tool-shows-us-exactly-what-resources-we-could-invest-when-we-divest-ice-cbp/
- Congress has the resources to invest in our community.
