Beyond belief how the Military Industrial Complex just grows and grows and grows and grows and there's hardly even a conversation about it.
Ilhan Omar
 @IlhanMN
7 Dec 2022
The pentagon bill now totals $857B, $55B more than the President requested. It’s more than we spend on transportation, veterans, education, justice, int'l affairs, the environment, housing, science, space, job training, and employment COMBINED. I will be voting NO.

Dec 8, 2022 · 3:32 AM UTC

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Peace Action in NC holds a monthly vigil downtown Raleigh. It was today, 20 people were there in the rain ☔️
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Progressives have the power to block it if they banded together. But they never do.
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Any chance we could add strings to defense money - require passing audit(s) for final fraction, e.g. 15%, of the (damn-near) blank check?
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Reading the replies to her tweet offered me encouragement that people simply aren't falling for congressional platitudes. The more we speak out and demand change, we can hold their feet to the fire.
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There are many conversations, just not among the people with the power to stop it.
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Even more beyond belief is that the squad only tweets about it and has voted in favor every time.
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Only people voting against more spending is MAGA. 150B in military spending in Ukraine alone this year.
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Imagine what that $55B could do to expand Medicaid.
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