'Not a Single Dollar More to Pentagon' in Infrastructure Package, Groups Demand

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Organizations including Public Citizen, Win Without War, the Sunrise Movement, and Demand Progress wrote in a letter (pdf) to congressional leaders that despite President Joe Biden's existing request for $753 billion in defense spending in his 2022 fiscal year budget proposal, lawmakers have made numerous requests to fund military projects with the American Jobs Plan.
51% : In Wednesday's letter, the public interest groups wrote that the Pentagon has already mismanaged taxpayer funding it received as part of the CARES Act in March 2020 -- spending the majority of a $1 billion fund meant to build up the country's medical equipment supply on body armor, jet engines, drone technology, and other military spending.
43% : The letter followed a similar call by progressive lawmakers including Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who noted in a letter (pdf) last week that Pentagon funding in the American Jobs Plan "will actually make our effort to create jobs more difficult, as research shows that other sectors, like healthcare, clean energy, and education will create far more and far better paying jobs per dollar invested than the defense industry."
41% : Stephen Semler, co-founder of the think tank Security Policy Reform Institute, wrote that Biden's proposal for defense spending for 2022 is already $127 billion more than the total amount in the bipartisan American Jobs Plan.

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