Tlaib Slams House’s Bipartisan Passage of $901 Billion Military Spending Bill

“Imagine if our government funded our communities like they fund war.”

That was Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) response to the House’s bipartisan passage Wednesday of legislation that authorizes nearly $901 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year, as tens of millions of Americans face soaring health insurance premiums and struggle to afford basic necessities amid the nation’s worsening cost-of-living crisis.

Tlaib, who voted against the military policy bill, had harsh words for her colleagues who “drool at the opportunity to fund war and genocide , but when it comes to universal healthcare , affordable housing , and food assistance, they suddenly argue that we simply can’t afford it.”

“Congress just authorized nearly a trillion dollars for death and destruction