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Mandy Smithberger
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Mandy Smithberger is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
November 30, 2020
Preventing future pandemics, and addressing long-standing inequalities, will require cutting our bloated Pentagon budget.
Despite their claims, defense spending isn’t driving major job growth. It just makes shareholders wealthier.
Even in a pandemic, Congress is all too happy to let companies profit from war.
As American families continue to struggle, war profiteers are requesting their own bailout.
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At $1.21 trillion, the actual national security budget is nearly twice the size that was announced by the White House.
Taxpayer dollars will continue to pour into a revolving-door industry with little oversight and outrageous spending.
We can’t expect the Pentagon to serve taxpayers first unless long-standing ties to private defense contractors are undone.
Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget—but the real number exceeds $1 trillion.
Patrick Shanahan, Trump’s new acting defense secretary, has spent an career serving the interests of Boeing’s bottom line. How will he serve the public instead?
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