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**New York Times** published a new analysis by the National Priorities
Project - **"How to Fund 'Medicare for All': Slash the Military."**

Debates over how to fund ambitious progressive policy proposals often
emphasize their hefty price tag. And proposals for funding them tend to
focus on raising taxes, particularly on the wealthiest.

But there's another huge source of funds, too: the Pentagon.

**NPP director Lindsay Koshgarian writes:**

We've identified more than $300 billion

in annual military savings alone that we could better invest in
priorities like Medicare for All, working with a national grassroots
movement called Poor People's Campaign.

**Cutting military spending this way presents its own tremendous
obstacles. Yet the exercise, however aspirational it may seem, also
shows how ambitious proposals are still within reach - if we make
different choices.**

Less than half the Pentagon's current budget can cover the $300 billion
over the current system that universal healthcare would cost per year.
First, we must tame the American war machine, bring the troops home and
close foreign bases, and banish nuclear weapons. Next, we can cut the
bloat and pork, lose Trumpian vanity boondoggles like the Space Force,
and fold military health care into a Medicare for All system for
everyone.

Cost isn't an issue, on healthcare or any other part of a moral agenda.
Our research analyst Ashik Siddique recently published a piece in
Buzzfeed making the case for cutting the Pentagon to fund a Green New
Deal

against the climate crisis. With just over 10% of a single year's
military spending, we could build out enough wind and solar energy to
power every household in the United States.

Our scholarship couldn't come at a better political moment. NPP's
coalition allies just released new poll data showing that a majority of
Americans now support shifting money from the Pentagon
to domestic needs like health
care, education, and environmental protection.

The time is ripe for all of us to keep pressing for the moral agenda our
country needs. Let's keep advocating and organizing together to seize
the moment.

See Lindsay's piece, and its interactive illustrations on finding the
funding, here at the

**New York Times**.

And please share it widely!

In solidarity,
Lindsay, Ashik, and the NPP team at IPS

See more interactive graphics from Lindsay's NYT article.

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