Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/29/biden-wants-163-times-to-military-than-pandemic/
March 29, 2022 - "Failing to fund the global fight against Covid-19 is a choice to extend the pandemic," said one public health expert.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/29/biden-requests-record-defense-budget/
March 29, 2022 - The Biden White House unveiled a budget request for Fiscal Year 2023 that continues the trend of sharply rising defense spending by proposing a record $813.3 billion in military spending—an incr...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/28/biden-using-ukraine-dangerous-nuclear-weapons/
March 28, 2022 - The president’s budget calls for $50.9 billion in nuclear weapons spending.
Blog - /blog/2022/03/18/its-time-divest-systems-harm-and-build-infrastructure-care/
March 18, 2022 - With the passage of the latest budget package Congress crudely showed us their firm and long standing commitment to inequality, corporate greed, and military spending. We won’t stand for it.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/10/yanking-covid-relief-house-782-billion-military/
March 10, 2022 - "This is the definition of prioritizing the Pentagon (militarism and war) over the people," said one advocacy group.
Analysis - /analysis/2022/budget-deal-prioritizes-war-and-militarization-over-critical-needs-again/
March 9, 2022 - The budget deal announced today repeats a longtime pattern by putting more resources into the military and war than into K-12 education, affordable housing, public health, scientific and medical resea...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/02/23/risk-of-war-financial-burden-americans/
Feb. 23, 2022 - The United States has provided $650 million in defense equipment and services to Ukraine this past year alone amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/02/07/america-competes-act-feeds-china-tensions/
Feb. 7, 2022 - "Prioritizing any version of the bill over all the ongoing crises that people are dealing with today in the U.S. shows that getting an edge over China is apparently our government's most urgent priori...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/11/19/progressive-slam-shameful-25-billion-pentagon/
Nov. 19, 2021 - "Congress must resist the demands of the military-industrial complex, and instead heed calls to invest taxpayer dollars into true human needs."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/19/senate-panel-approves-extra-29-billion-pentagon/
Oct. 19, 2021 - The Senate committee vote included $10 billion more than requested. "That's $100 billion over 10 years—or half the cost of universal pre-K, which we're told we can't afford," said one critic.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/15/pentagon-bloated-budget-undermines-democracy/
Oct. 15, 2021 - The Pentagon’s bloated budget is a colossal waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere. But it’s also an outrage to democracy.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/30/21-trillion-20-years-war-no-human-infrastructure/
Sept. 30, 2021 - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has spent a mindboggling $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization. Meanwhile, the entire Republican Party and a handful of centrist Democrats are trying to bl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/24/dems-oppose-pentagon-cuts-receive-weapons-donation/
Sept. 24, 2021 - The latest passage of the NDAA "is particularly strong evidence that Pentagon contractors' interests easily take precedence over national security and the public interest for too many members of Congr...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/09/war-on-terror-militarized-america-more-than-ever/
Sept. 9, 2021 - The War on Terror projected American power abroad with devastating consequences. But it also wrought suffering and waste at home, with consequences we’re still living with today.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/money-spent-on-war-prompts-thoughts-what-could-be/
Sept. 8, 2021 - Some people consider the $3.5 trillion infrastructure proposal being proposed by congressional Democrats a huge chunk of change. But it pales compared to various estimates of military spending against...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/03/us-spent-21-trillion-on-militarization-since-911/
Sept. 3, 2021 - The cost of the War on Terror and its catastrophic consequences at home and abroad are staggering: $21 trillion, according to a new report. Imagine what we could do with that money if we used it for h...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion-killed-million/
Sept. 2, 2021 - The U.S. has spent $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization" since the fateful 2001 attacks that spawned the Afghanistan intervention, marking a new era of U.S.-led conflict across the glob...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/01/cost-post-911-security-state-21-trillion/
Sept. 1, 2021 - The war on terror has fueled 20 years of massive military and other spending.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/25/just-transition-defense-industries-lessons-fossil-fuel-transitions/
Aug. 25, 2021 - Plans for a Just Transition away from defense industries do not need to be pulled out of thin air. The ongoing efforts to transition economies, workers, and communities out of the harmful fossil fuel ...
Analysis - /analysis/2021/national-priorities-project-commends-senate-rejection-50-billion-pentagon-grab/
Aug. 10, 2021 - August 10 - Today the Senate rejected an amendment to the budget resolution to add $50 billion to the Pentagon budget, 46-53. The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies i...