Congress faces growing pressure to direct more resources toward urgent domestic and global crises, rather than continuing endless wars.
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| Gabe Murphy | This week the US House of Representatives failed to pass an amendment to the military budget that would have cut it by 10 percent. Common Dreams reports:
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| Katrina vanden Heuvel | In the long run, the Defense Department is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change.
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| Glenn Greenwald | a massive $740.5 billion military spending package was approved …
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| Sister Mary Pendergast and Sister Patricia Moriarty | As Sisters of Mercy who work closely with people living in poverty, we urge all of our legislators to support a proposal that would cut Pentagon spending
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| William D. Hartung | Any effort to reduce police spending and focus on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. Distorted funding priorities aren’t the only driving force behind police violence …
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| Richard Eskow | There is simply no logic to it—other than the inexorable logic of war profiteering and global control. The bill is filled with moral contradictions and … absurdities.
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| H. Patricia Hynes | How is it that a country that spends nearly $1 trillion each year on the military, national security … and weapons … needs charity for its veterans?
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| David Swanson | Senator Bernie Sanders has … proposed to introduce legislation to move a significant amount of money from militarism to human and environmental needs …
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| Ralph Nader | Top military, diplomatic, and political leaders have exposed, warned of, and condemned our runaway, unaudited military budgets for decades, to no avail …
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“United States Conference of Mayors urges the United States Congress to move our tax dollars in exactly the opposite direction proposed by the President …”
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Demanding that Congress “prioritize our safety and our future, not more war,” Rep. Barbara Lee unveiled a resolution to cut $350 billion from Pentagon budget …
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