At the 10 year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, U.S. climate commitments are being swallowed up by military spending.

As the first year of Trump’s second term comes to a close, here are ten examples of MAGA’S excessive, wasteful, inhumane, and unstrategic militarized spending in 2025. 

The Paris Agreement, adopted on December 12, 2015, was supposed to catalyze global investment in climate finance to assist the world’s most vulnerable and historically exploited countries combat the worsening climate crisis. Instead, over the past decade, Congress has approved roughly 40 times more taxpayer dollars to subsidize weapons companies than support...

The annual military spending bill paves the way for the first $1-trillion war budget since World War II, by authorizing more than $900 billion for the Pentagon on top of the $156 billion approved by Congress earlier this year.

This Election Day, progressive ideas swept the polls this month on Election Day. Across multiple elections at the state and local government levels, voters chose pro-people and planet agendas over militarism, fossil fuels, and billionaire corporate interests. 

In the midst of the shutdown, Senators were still busy. They approved a $32 billion increase for the Pentagon on a bipartisan basis, approving the increase by a vote of 77-20 as part of a larger bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.

Once again, the MAGA regime is prioritizing billionaire Pentagon contractors over struggling families.   President Trump and the MAGA regime are weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans by refusing to fund SNAP during the Republican-led government shutdown, resulting in the first ever lapse of food stamp benefits beginning on November 1. ...

Amid a wave of attacks on migrants, 80 percent of Americans now say immigration is good for this country — a record high.

In climate reparations camp, we learned what the U.S. owes to the world for its contribution to the climate crisis - $446 billion per year by 2035.

The Republicans in Congress have used a charade of government efficiency to justify funding reductions in these anti-poverty and anti-hunger programs.