{"id":116646,"date":"2021-04-11T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=184654"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:42:35","slug":"we-need-jobs-and-healthcare-not-more-money-for-bombs-and-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/11\/we-need-jobs-and-healthcare-not-more-money-for-bombs-and-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need Jobs And Healthcare, Not More Money For Bombs And Bullets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Biden Administration released their budget proposal for Federal discretionary spending in Fiscal Year 2022. This included a proposal for a\u00a0$753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget,\u00a0an increase from President Trump\u2019s final enacted\u00a0budget.\u00a0This signals a concerning continuity with the Trump Administration which, over the course of four years, increased the Pentagon budget by\u00a0$133 billion\u00a0with bipartisan Congressional approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Submitting a $753 billion Pentagon budget proposal during a historic pandemic while millions of working people across the country continue to struggle from the resulting economic turmoil is unconscionable,\" said CODEPINK national co-director and Divest from War campaign director Carley Towne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/we-need-jobs-and-healthcare-not-more-money-for-bombs-and-bullets\/\">We Need Jobs And Healthcare, Not More Money For Bombs And Bullets.<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/we-need-jobs-and-healthcare-not-more-money-for-bombs-and-bullets\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Biden Administration released their budget proposal for Federal discretionary spending in Fiscal Year 2022. This included a proposal for a\u00a0$753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget,\u00a0an increase from President Trump\u2019s final enacted\u00a0budget.\u00a0This signal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3545,5722,18004,51,10956],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116647,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116646\/revisions\/116647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}