Representatives Barbara Lee (D-California) and Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would slash $100 billion from the Pentagon budget, as annual spending on defense hurtles toward $1 trillion.
of 2022’s Build Back Better Act because of conservatives’ opposition to the cost.
“Virtually everywhere you look in the Pentagon budget, there’s waste and needless spending,” Public Citizen President Robert Weissman said in a statement. “The Pentagon’s F-35 jet is the department’s most expensive weapons system program and is expected to cost $1.
“Is it asking too much for a trillion-dollar program to insist on ‘an acceptable level of performance and reliability’ before it throws billions of taxpayer money at Lockheed Martin?” Weissman continued. “The choice to spend so much on the military is equally a choice not to provide health care, invest in early education, address climate chaos, and more. The People Over Pentagon Act rejects the immoral and illogical inertia of more, more, more for the Pentagon.
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