Pentagon Choices

Responsibly reprioritizing Pentagon spending to reinvest in our shared prosperity. #PentagonChoices #p2 Retweets/likes not endorsements.

[Pentagon Choices @PentagonChoices]

"What [#COVID19] has revealed isn’t that the American armed forces need to get better at combatting pandemics. It’s that the American response [...] has been crippled by the fact that its spending priorities are all out of whack" @UriLF / @TheAtlantic https://t.co/G8KpCZ4TUj

[Women's Action for New Directions WAND @WomensAction]

This year’s budget has long-term consequences for US nuclear policy. Massive investments in weaponry have an opportunity cost for urgent environmental and human needs that should take priority. #PeopleOverPentagon
https://t.co/6bHoR41kEz

[Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) @masspeaceaction]

Max Blumenthal: the new Cold War aims to justify the Pentagon budget and the priorities of Raytheon:
https://t.co/2kS678wqZf

[Win Without War (winwithoutwar.bsky.social) @WinWithoutWar]

NEW!: We join with major progressive orgs to call on Pres Biden and Congress to go back to the drawing board on the $753 billion Pentagon budget 👀and put #PeopleoverPentagon via @morningdefense

https://t.co/wbNCYvRL9B

[Pentagon Choices @PentagonChoices]

Progressive groups call on Biden “to significantly lower the Pentagon budget when he sends his detailed request to Congress” & on lawmakers “as the holder of the nation’s purse strings, to allocate less for the Pentagon” @morningdefense https://t.co/I72BFpHgrz #PeopleOverPentagon

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

Things we could cut from the defense budget, instead of increasing it by $13,000,000,000:

✂️ Private defense contractor profits
✂️ The Overseas Contingency Operations fund
✂️ New funding for nuclear weapons

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

"Our most urgent crises — including the pandemic, climate change, and racism — do not have military solutions.

Our budget should reflect that reality."

Read our @natpriorities project statement on Biden's proposed $753 billion Pentagon budget:

https://t.co/4hT8qeyZ5M

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

“The Pentagon already spends: $740,000,000,000 every year, $2,000,000,000 every day, $1,000,000 every minute. The last thing we need is a bigger military budget.” @RBReich

Thank you, John @NicholsUprising, for this reporting for @TheNation!

https://t.co/h8j7xdrkPN

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Pentagon already spends:

$740,000,000,000 every year

$2,000,000,000 every day

$1,000,000 every minute

The last thing we need is a bigger military budget.

[Lindsay Koshgarian @lindsaykosh]

“Pouring money into the Pentagon can’t prevent another pandemic.”

@natpriorities statement on Biden’s $753 billion Pentagon budget request.

https://t.co/InbzYadisQ

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Biden boosts national defense (DOD + DOE nukes) spending by $12.6 billion to $753 billion.

For perspective, this “modest” increase (1.7%) from last year is more than the entire 2021 budget for the CDC.
https://t.co/O88daflOYL

[Liz 🇵🇸🇾🇪#ShutDownRedHill #YemenCantWait @DandelionRootT]

"Our politicians never consult the public about what makes us feel secure in order to give us a voice defining national security."
Gr8 piece on the intersection of mass inequality in the US + US militarism abroad.@masspeaceaction #MilitaryIndustrialTaxes

https://t.co/daXDCsqQhq

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

The Biden-Harris budget is not progressive. If it was, one of things it’d do is at least attempt to reconcile the longstanding military-vs-nonmilitary spending disparity:

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

BREAKING: Biden proposes a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget, a significant increase from last year's budget.

[Zach Stone @Lil_Deductible]

Why were $2000 survival checks “free money” but the $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget isn’t?

[FCNL (Quakers) @FCNL]

$715,000,000,000.

That's almost three times the defense spending of the next highest country.

Let's stop pretending this is normal. More militarism will not keep us safer. We need to invest in #PeopleOverPentagon https://t.co/btMjWCppru

[Jon Rainwater @jonrainwater]

The COVID crisis represented a wake up for US security policy. We must invest in what *actually* keeps us safe. Biden’s $715B Pentagon spending plan - a modest increase over bloated Trump spending — represents hitting the snooze button. #PeopleOverPentagon https://t.co/Uhj7wP18jl

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

"Even the Pentagon doesn’t know" where its money goes, our
@lindsaykosh points out. But the Biden plan increases defense spending anyway.

"Imagine if that were the case for a social safety net program, the kind of flack it would get.”

@NivElis @thehill
https://t.co/94C3W2Gqct

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

We applaud the domestic priorities in Biden’s budget – from funding to improve voting rights, to a big bump to the CDC, to money for fighting the climate crisis.

These are all big wins.

But continuing to pour billions into the Pentagon is a mistake.
https://t.co/9qhtxkm62s

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

Biden's proposed hike in military spending is the opposite of what we need, our @lindsaykosh @natpriorities warns.

"This will only feed contractor greed and increase the likelihood of more military conflicts in more places."

@johnsonjakep @commondreams
https://t.co/clWSWdEKWN

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

Biden just proposed a $715 billion budget for the Pentagon.

Trump’s budget was only $704 billion.

We should be returning toward Obama levels. Not pouring more money into price gouging defense contractors & wasteful projects.