The house has just approved the military expenses of $ 892.6 billion – continuing the march to 1 trillion. Dollars.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is sent after a press conference on the Capitolian hill September 09 2025
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Federal budgets are said to be considered as moral statements that reflect the values of most congress. So, what was the statement this week from the Republican House of Representatives? The fact that the vast majority of Republicans at home, together with a handful of Democrats, are ready to convey the military-industrial complex everything it requires by denying hungry children, which they can easily provide.
On Wednesday the same politicians who decided almost two months ago Funding cutting For Medicaid and Additional Nutrition Program, they voted for a $ 892.6 billion staggering military spending. A large amount of this money will go to politically related corporate contractors that the Institute of responsible static ship is accurately described as a lifetime “War Profit” -And they can count on even thicker salaries down the line, as permanently expanding the Pentagon’s budget barrels to a $ 1 trillion mark.
“A small part of this money would not allow each child from poverty,” – – Note US Reporter Mark Pakan, Democrat Wisconsin, who, together with former US representative Barbara Lee, D-California, founded a reduction in defense costs and was a leading supporter of the Pentagon’s budget.
The Packet was one of 192 Democrats and four Republicans who voted against the proposal of the House of National Defense – against 214 Republicans and 17 Democrats who voted “yes”. (You see Final 231 – 196 twist here. Merit for Republicans who voted “no”, even if they did not do it for the right reasons. Shame on the Democrats who voted for “yes”, as the united opposition could completely overcome the process and allow a real discussion on the cost of defense that are so desperate).))
However, the new NDAA contains an amendment that seeks to stop a couple of military force permits (Aumfs), which since the beginning of the 2000s has been used as excuses for the presidents to bypass Congress when launching hostilities. This is a commendable victory after decades of Lee propaganda, U.Sim reporter Jim McGusto and others who sought to cut the executive plot.
But the bill also contains a litany anti-lgbtq+ initiative and other bows to the tough right social policy, which is the representative Mark Takano, the California Democrat, headed by Congress, refused to say that in a statement, in a statement, which is in a statement, which is a statement. Announced: “The National Defense Authorization Act Has Traditionally Received Strong Bipartisan Support, Yet for the Second Congress in a Row House Republicans have tainted a bill aimed That threaten our trops ‘Rights, their Families’ Stability, and Our Efforts to Retain Top Talent. The their base cannot cancel the victim of transgenders, cadets or military dependents who will suffer from this bill, must fight for those who are fighting for us, but it is clear that GOP has other priorities.
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Some of the worst aspects of NDAA can be removed after this measure is considered by the US Senate. But, in fact, this bad bill is a blank check on the impossible expenses for the Pentagon, and it was allowed by the majority of the House of Representatives, which, according to Askgro, has lost both a sense of proportion and a moral compass.
“Excessive military expenses, and in many cases just roughly waste military expenses, have not improved the quality of life for the vast majority of people in this country,” – speak McGaver. “The fact that we have 40 million people who do not know where their next food comes from, I think abusive. We need people to rise and say: your priorities are all wound, Congress!”
This call for action can be rejected by observers, political insiders and corporate lobbyists as simply outrage of a progressive democrat. But the mood of McGustrated decades ago by the President of the Republicans.
Dwight Eisenhower warned in 1953 Speech to the editors of the newspapers about “the burden of weapons that ends up wealth and work of all peoples.” A career of the military leader, who held the position of the Supreme Commander of the Union Expeditional Forces in Europe during World War II, as well as the Chief of Staff of the Army at the Cold War, Eisenhower acknowledged that the United States had encountered military threats. However, he refused to assume that the increase in defense costs should be the only priority. Rather, in his speech in 1953 – one of the first main statements of his presidency – he told about “A terrible road“About the permanent military escalation and warns that” a waste that is not amenable to the American system, the Soviet system or any system to achieve true wealth and happiness for the peoples of this land. “
“Every gun that is made, each launched a warship, each rocket fired, in the final sense, theft from those naked and not fed, those who are cold and are not dressed,” ” said EisenhowerAdd:
This weapon world does not spend money alone.
He spends the sweat of his workers, the genius of his scientists, the hope of his children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
These are two power plants, each serving a city of 60,000 population.
These are two wonderful, fully equipped hospitals.
It’s about 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for one fighter with half a million wheat bushes.
We pay for one destroyer with new houses that could accommodate over 8,000 people …
“This is not a way of life, in any true sense,” Eisenhower explained. “Under the cloud of a threatening war, this humanity hangs from the cross of iron.”
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The 34th president proposed a more intricate balance that respected the need for investment in raising man and social progress. “The monuments of this new war would be these: roads and schools, hospitals and houses, food and health,” he summarized. “We are ready, in short, to devote our strength to the needs, not the fear of the world.”
Eisenhower has long gone. However, today’s United States could use more of their wisdom, in the White House and in Congress.
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