Since invading Afghanistan in 2001, the United States has spent $2.313 trillion on the war, which includes operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Battle heats up over Pentagon spending plans
|Renecca Kheel| Jockeying over defense funding is heating up amid expectations President Biden will request an essentially flat Pentagon budget for next year.
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20th NYC Council Member to Endorse RES 747A
A great big welcome and thank you to our 20th Council Member to sponsor RES 747A!
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NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Supports Move the Money!
Thank you, Jumaane Williams for sponsoring RES 747A!
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Increasing Pentagon Spending When People Are Going Hungry Is Madness
| John Nichols | Bernie Sanders holds up a Pentagon spending bill to force a Senate vote on $2,000 payments …
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Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Ending the Pentagon’s Pandemic of Spending
It’s perfectly clear that Donald Trump considers just about every last one of us a sucker and that’s not news at all.
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National (In)Security and the Pentagon Budget
A Post-Coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first. As it turns out, creating jobs through Pentagon spending is among the least effective ways to rebuild the economy.
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What Programs A 10% Cut In Military Spending Could Buy
| 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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The Beginning of the End for Ever-Rising Pentagon Budgets
| Katrina vanden Heuvel | In the long run, the Defense Department is not likely to escape the growing imperative of change.
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How the House Armed Services Committee Approved a Huge Military Budget …
| Glenn Greenwald | a massive $740.5 billion military spending package was approved …
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