Oh those bad bad Budgets … (07/22/2020)
On July 22, 2020, both chambers of the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly rejected (with votes of 22 to 77 in the Senate & 93 to 324 in the House) amendments that would have redirected 10 percent of the Pentagon budget towards community needs like housing, education, and healthcare. Thereafter, those same elected representatives passed their preferred version of the NDAA – a version that authorizes a whopping $740 billion for the Pentagon …
“Congress’s priorities are so severely unbalanced that – even as millions of people across the country fall ill from the novel coronavirus – our leaders refuse to muster the political will to reinvest wasteful Pentagon spending in programs that will keep Americans safe and healthy” ~ anonymous
“Congress still needs to catch up with the will and needs of the electorate, where over half want to see reductions in the bloated Pentagon to pay for other priorities. The main threats to America’s security, like the global health pandemic and economic crisis, have no military solution.” ~ Paul Martin
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