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Apparently President Obama may be planning to cut social security, medicaid and medicare, but has still yet to seriously consider cutting a penny of defense spending. From yesterday’s Time [...]

Today people around the world are participating in a global day of action to speak out against excessive military spending. This comes on the heels of a new report showing that global military [...]

Republicans are making a big show about cutting foreign aid in their quest to rein in spending and cut the deficit. And it appears that the show has an impact on how the public views the budget, [...]

At their winter meeting in DC, the Democratic National Committee gave Obama a major push on Afghanistan by passing a resolution calling for a “swift” withdrawal, including a “significant and [...]

Last month, Republicans slashed and burned their way through the federal budget, gutting critical programs in an ideological drive to cut billions of dollars in spending. While the military [...]

Members of the House of Representatives are kicking off the 2011 session by ramping up the pressure on the White House to end the war in Afghanistan. In addition to the vote last week to cut all [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqZOJdjdYE&feature=uploademail] Last week, the House engaged in a budget free-for-all, debating hundreds of amendments on the continuing resolution [...]

Second-term Reps. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) banded together to send an important message to new incoming members of the House: support the foreign affairs budget: We must [...]

It’s hypocrisy at its worst. House Republicans are pushing a budget resolution for 2011 to slash $100 billion for domestic spending while letting the bloated Pentagon budget grow. [...]

The Republican House leadership took a meat cleaver to the continuing resolution that would fund the government through the rest of the 2011 fiscal year (ending October 1st). The Republicans on [...]