Cut the pentagon budget now!
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list of Key Pentagon Budget Resources
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Budget Basics
· White House/OMB FY27 Budget Request Documents
· White House/OMB Historical Tables
· Trump’s FY2027 Budget Request (Stephen Semler)
· Budget Backgrounder (National Priorities Project) Spending by Budget Function & Agency (USASpending.gov; note FY drop-down menu)
Iran War, Israel Aid, Venezuela
· “The Real Cost of the Iran War: $72 Billion” (Semler)
· Additional U.S. Energy Costs: $40 Billion (Costs of War Project)
· Review of Direct and Indirect Costs (Taxpayers for Common Sense)
· U.S. Aid to Israel, 1951–2025 (Semler)
· Costs of War in Venezuela and the Region: $4.7 Billion (Costs of War)
Trade Offs
· Military/War Spending Trade-Offs Tool (NPP)
· “What $1.5 Trillion for the Pentagon Could Fund Instead” (Semler)
· Tax Receipts: How Much Goes to War? (NPP)
Global and National Contexts
· Global Spending: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· Post-9/11 War Spending (Costs of War)
· Military/War Spending Counters (NPP)
· Profits of War: Top Corporate Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending (Costs of War)
Proposals to Cut the Military Budget
· $750 Billion “Topline”/Slash the Pentagon Act (Sen. Edward Markey, 2026)
· $60 Billion in Cuts from Quincy, Stimson, TCS (2025)
· Congressional Budget Office (2021)
· $80 Billion in Cuts from 25+ Orgs (2021)
· CATO (2017) and Restraint Proposal (2022)
· Unified Security Budget (2012) and full report
· Sustainable Defense Taskforce (2011)
· Force Structure Comparisons (Congressional Budget Office)
· Proposals to cut the budget: William Hartung, Bill Astore, Eric Blanc, Lindsay Koshgarian, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and via Congressional rescissions