The Squad votes to allocate $700 billion for the 2021 "defense" budget

At least they’re willing to fight for what’s important, like allocating $700 billion for the struggling CEOs of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon.

This week, the House voted to establish the congressional budget for fiscal year 2021 and set the “appropriate budgetary levels” for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.

Like any sane, reasonable piece of legislation originating from a country which routinely outspends every other country’s military, the “defense” budget for 2021 was set at over $700 billion, with another $127 billion for “international affairs”.

This passed the House on 2/3/21 by a vote of 218-212 without a single objection from some of the most prominent “progressives” in the Democratic Party, including those in the “Squad” such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who is shaping up to be quite the hawk), Ilhan Omar (who sided with Trump on an Iran embargo), Rashida Tlaib, Ayana Pressley, Ro Khanna, Katie Porter, Jamaal Bowman, and Mark Pocan.

While these same “progressives” have been strikingly silent on the broken campaign promise by Democrats to provide millions of Americans with $2,000 stimulus checks in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, at least they’re willing to band together and fight for what’s important, like allocating $700 billion for the struggling CEOs of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon.