{"id":6768,"date":"2022-04-24T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:45:36","slug":"budget-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/budget-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Joe Biden has signed off on a $29 billion spending increase to his requested fiscal year 2022 national &#8220;defense&#8221; budget, a massive expansion that was approved alongside another $13.6 billion in emergency military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as Russia\u2019s deadly war on that country continues. The national &#8220;defense&#8221; total in the 2022 omnibus spending bill is $782 billion, a 3.9 percent increase over the administration\u2019s request for 2022 and a 5.6 percent increase over the 2021 appropriations. This total <strong>does not <\/strong>include the assistance for Ukraine, of which $6.5 billion is headed to the Pentagon for funding U.S. troop deployments to eastern Europe and restocking weapons that have been or will be sent to Ukraine. (Arms Control Association&#8211;April 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of this increase in spending is for procurement. The budget\u2019s military procurement allotment exceeds the Pentagon&#8217;s budget request by about $12 billion. The budget increase includes money for 20 more C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, made by Lockheed Martin, and 12 F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornets for the Navy, keeping Boeing\u2019s production line going.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing,&nbsp; and General Dynamics continue to put former Department of Defense officials on their payrolls and continue to spend more than $100 million each year on lobbying, these billions spent on procurement primarily benefit the large military contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has signed off on a $29 billion spending increase to his requested fiscal year 2022 national &#8220;defense&#8221; budget, a massive expansion that was approved alongside another $13.6 billion in emergency military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as Russia\u2019s deadly war on that country continues. The national &#8220;defense&#8221; total in the 2022 omnibus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pep"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MLK-e1650859762865.jpg?fit=200%2C158&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}