Health care is the fastest-growing type of federal spending, having risen from 7 percent of the federal budget in 1976 to more than a quarter in fiscal year 2015 as health care costs have risen in the industrialized world.
If policymakers wanted to actually improve the health of Americans they would be making larger investments in expanding food security and healthcare programs– not the military.
While climate change fuels migration, the United States hardens its southern border instead of investing in real sources of safety for people in this country and around the world.
The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
These two bills represent diametrically opposed views of how to address the challenges of our time: a moral budget vs a war budget. Congress: Which side are you on?
