Pentagon spending is wildly out of control.
- U.S. military spending exceeds that of the next nine countries combined.
- We spend roughly 10 times more than Russia does on weapons and war.
- Avoidable spending waste — as identified by the Pentagon itself! — vastly exceeds the combined budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.
- Congress threw $45 billion more at the Pentagon than it even asked for this year. That alone would have paid for adding hearing, dental, and vision coverage to Medicare for a year — a proposal abandoned with the excuse that it would have cost too much.
- By the way, this isn’t even about Ukraine — American aid to Ukraine has come from supplemental funding packages, not the Pentagon’s already bloated base budget.
Our nation’s choice to spend so much on the military is equally a choice not to provide health care, invest in early education, address climate chaos, and more.
Thankfully, Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan have introduced the People Over Pentagon Act of 2023.
The People Over Pentagon Act would claw back $100 billion from weapons and waste and instead redirect that spending to priority human needs.
Add your name now to tell Congress to pass the People Over Pentagon Act of 2023.
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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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