60+ Faith Groups Urge Congress to ‘Dramatically’ Slash Pentagon Budget

Portside -More than 60 faith-based organizations on Tuesday urged the U.S. Congress to impose major cuts on the bloated military budget as President Joe Biden pushes for a nearly $30 billion increase and Republicans demand even bigger spending hike. "The country is sprinting towards a trillion-dollar budget for weapons and war—propping up an expensive and harmful militarized foreign policy while people struggle to meet their basic needs," reads a new letter to members of Congress signed by U.S., international, and state and local groups including the American Friends Service Committee, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, Hindus for Human Rights, and dozens of others.