The House just voted to advance a whopping $776,000,000,000 annual Pentagon budget despite the growing objections of progressive lawmakers.
It’s the result of decades and decades of corruption: they’ve kept HUNDREDS of registered lobbyists on their payroll, spent more than $100 MILLION on lobbying every single year for the last decade, and have hired at least 1,700 (!!) recent former DOD officials — including generals, admirals, and acquisition officials.
But next up is the Senate — and we’ve seen this year that a single Senator can grind things to a halt to get what they want. That’s why we are pushing tooth and nail for a committed group of Senators to say NO — but it’ll take every tool we’ve got to create unprecedented levels of congressional opposition to rubber stamping another bloated Pentagon budget.
Your support, right now in the middle of this fight, is so important. We’re still about $16,088 short of our September goal. If everyone reading gave a donation of any amount now, we’d close this gap in seconds. Can you donate today?