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 MoreSpeaker Pelosi asks “How do you pay for that” only for working-class priorities. Every year, Congress has the opportunity to right our broken spending priorities. Some try and fail. Others, like Pelosi, actively work to entrench inequality.
Read MoreAdam 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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