Congressional progressives must reject Biden's regressive budget
There is nothing progressive about Biden’s $753 million military budget request.
Read MoreIndustry cash, not public opinion, predicts Democrat votes on defense
In large numbers, congressional Democrats voted against amendments to shave 10 percent off the Pentagon budget. We break down the numbers and defense industry campaign contributions to show how the party’s fiercest “resistance” occurs along class, rather than partisan, lines.
Read MoreThink Trump’s corruption is unique? Look across the aisle.
Adam Smith condemned Trump’s corruption, but as Smith’s own campaign warchest demonstrates, much of ‘national security’ funding has an afterlife propping up the campaigns of members of Congress who are friendly to the industry. The ranking Democrats’ impeachment inquiry was never about corruption per se, but rather about which forms of corruption ‘national security’ permits.
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