Anti-war groups vowed to keep fighting to slash the bloated Pentagon budget after the House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a proposal to cut U.S. military spending by 10% and invest the savings in housing, healthcare, and education in poor communities.The final vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) was 93-324, with 139 Democrats joining 185 Republicans in voting no. The failure of the Lee-Pocan amendment means the final version of the House NDAA will propose a $740.5 military budget for fiscal year 2021, a more than $2 billion increase from the previous year. - Common Dreams
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Whimpering, groveling servitude to the war pigs
Some may find that title offensive, but at times you just gotta tell it like it is.
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OK ... let's be honest here ... if any Republican voted to cut spending that would mean that there would be less money for Trump to transfer from DOD projects to build his wall.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the same amendment was offered in the Senate and that vote also failed but 23 Dems voted to re-allocate the funds to domestic projects (Klobuchar and Smith voted for the 10% reduction as did Omar in the House.)
These type of amendments have been offered for years ... I have pointed out that when asked to cut their own staff budgets by 1% that Kline and Paulsen voted that down.
As long as you are looking at where people stand on cutting budgets, today, the House rejected an amendment to cut 5% from State and Foreign Operations budgets ... it got 88 Yes votes but none from the Minnesota delegation.
Tomorrow expect a roll call vote on cutting the EPA budget by 5% (McCollum demanded a formal vote)