Jan. 7, 2020

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Strategy Summit  in October 2019 featured ten progressive thinkers, leaders, and activists who presented on their next Big Idea for innovative policy that makes a real difference in people's lives.

NPP's Ashik Siddique addressed the summit to explain how we can safely shift as much as $350 billion per year away from the Pentagon by ending the endless wars, closing 60% of foreign bases, cutting unnecessary weapons, and much more.

Watch Ashik's pitch below, and see the rest of the 10 Big Ideas here. 

We spend too much on the military - more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, and more than 140 other countries altogether. The Pentagon’s budget is more than half of what Congress allocates every year - it dwarfs all discretionary non-military spending, including public programs that meet human needs.

The National Priorities Project is proposing a budget for demilitarization that could safely shift as much as $350 billion per year away from the Pentagon by ending the endless wars, closing 60% of foreign bases, cutting unnecessary weapons, and much more. This would make the whole world safer, begin unravelling the U.S.'s role in long-term unrest in the Middle East and other places, and it would also help fund our big progressive ideas.