'The Pentagon's ever-growing budget is quite simply a theft from American people enriching some of the wealthiest corporations in this country,' said SPMiles42. 'It's disgraceful.'
During its closed-door markup of the National Defense Authorization Act this week, the Senate Armed Services Committeea bill with a topline budget of $847 billion—$817 billion of which is earmarked for the Pentagon. Roughly $10 billion of national military spending falls outside the Senate panel's jurisdiction. The House is expected to make its own push to further boost military spending for the next fiscal year.
"The administration's proposal is already higher than spending at the peaks of the Korean and Vietnam Wars and over $100 billion more than at the height of the Cold War," Hartung said in a statement."Throwing more money at the Pentagon will not make us safer—it will just divert funds from addressing other urgent challenges like pandemics and climate change that put millions of Americans at risk.
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