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2 weeks ago | 
otherwords.org | Lindsay Koshgarian |Peter Certo
Each year for Tax Day, my colleagues and I at the Institute for Policy Studies release a tax receipt so you can learn where your taxes are actually going. This year, you may be more worried about the price of eggs than your tax dollars. But with President Trump now urging a $1 trillion military budget, it’s worth thinking about what we’re already spending. Last year, the average taxpayer paid $3,707 for weapons and wars. That’s the equivalent of 628 dozen eggs.
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3 weeks ago | 
ips-dc.org | Lindsay Koshgarian |Caleb Crowder
In an interview for Yes! Magazine’s Rising Up With Sonali show, Lindsay Koshgarian explained how the recent Continuing Resolution passed by Congress cuts funding for the poor to fund the U.S. war machine and mass deportations: “What they ended up passing was a budget that shifts funding from domestic priorities into the Pentagon, and they did also eek out a little smidge more for their mass deportation plans.” But Lindsay warns that’s only a small taste of what’s to come in the budget...
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1 month ago | 
ips-dc.org | Karen Dolan |Lindsay Koshgarian |Caleb Crowder
Right now, people across the country are demanding that our government puts our communities’ needs before corporate greed. IPS and the Economic Policy Institute proudly provided research support for a timely new report by Repairers of the Breach that spotlights how Trump and the GOP are cutting programs that help poor and low-income Americans to spend more on the war machine, mass deportations, and tax breaks for the wealthy.
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1 month ago | 
ips-dc.org | Lindsay Koshgarian |Caleb Crowder
Tonight President Trump will address Congress, and who knows what he’ll say. But it’s easy to get too swept up in what he says. Instead, watch what he does. So far, the president’s actions and those of his administration speak volumes: He put an unelected billionaire Pentagon contractor in charge of federal government firings (after promising to “clean up the military-industrial complex”).
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1 month ago | 
otherwords.org | Peter Certo |Khury Petersen-Smith |Basav Sen |Lindsay Koshgarian
As parents, we’re horrified by the denial of health care to trans children that’s being imposed on families and communities across this country right now. Through President Trump’s executive orders and harsh anti-trans laws in different states, policy makers are making it a crime to provide for trans kids’ medical needs. That’s sickening.
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2 months ago | 
ips-dc.org | Lindsay Koshgarian |Peter Certo
Download a PDF of this fact sheet here. Senate Republicans are moving forward with a budget proposal that would spend more on the Pentagon and President Trump’s plans to detain and deport millions of undocumented people. These plans hurt all Americans, not least because Senate Republicans plan to pay for$345 billion in new spending by cutting benefits that people rely on. The Senate’s budget resolution would allow for untold billions in cuts to public education, food stamps, Medicaid, and more.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
eurasiareview.com | Lindsay Koshgarian
The military is concerned about a growing recruitment crisis. Survey after survey reveals young people just aren’t inspired by military service. Ironically, decades of sky-high military spending — and the endless war it enabled — may have much to do with that. And reversing that trend is critical to making Americans safer. An 18-year-old today will have lived their entire life watching one failed, disastrous war after another. Born in 2006, they would have been an infant when George W.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Lindsay Koshgarian |Rob Maurer
We need to invest in a country worth fighting for, not endless wars and boondoggles for military contractors. The military is concerned about a growing recruitment crisis. Survey after survey reveals young people just aren’t inspired by military service. Ironically, decades of sky-high military spending—and the endless war it enabled—may have much to do with that. And reversing that trend is critical to making Americans safer.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
myheraldreview.com | Lindsay Koshgarian
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Lindsay Koshgarian
The military is concerned about a growing recruitment crisis. Survey after survey reveals young people just aren’t inspired by military service. Ironically, decades of sky-high military spending — and the endless war it enabled — may have much to do with that. And reversing that trend is critical to making Americans safer. An 18-year-old today will have lived their entire life watching one failed, disastrous war after another. Born in 2006, they would have been an infant when George W.
