'We Do Not Need a Massive Increase': Sanders Criticizes Biden's $813 Billion Military Budget

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Morris Pearl, the chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, hailed Biden's decision to include a minimum tax on billionaires in his budget blueprint as "a monumental step towards making the richest people in the United States pay taxes every year just like Americans who work for a living.
44% : Robert Weissman, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said in a statement Monday that "spending $813 billion on weaponry and military contractor pay-offs and calling it 'defense spending' is ill-advised and enormously wasteful.""The greatest threats to Americans in the 21st century are not external adversaries, but rather skyrocketing wealth inequality, impending climate chaos, public health crises, and corporate greed," said Weissman.
43% : In his statement on Monday, Sanders added that "at a time when over 700 billionaires in America became nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic while tens of millions continue to struggle, we need a budget that demands that the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes and substantially improves the lives of working families with children, the elderly, the sick, and the poor.""I will be doing everything I can to pass a strong and robust budget reconciliation bill that works for working families, not the top 1%," said the Vermont senator.

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