Congressional Budget Responses to the Pandemic: Fund Health Care, Not Warfare November 19, 2020
In 1943 the government diverted tens of billions of dollars from civilian programs to the project to build the atomic bomb. What the COVID-19 pandemic requires is the reverse: the diversion of a substantial chunk of the more than $700 billion appropriated for the Pentagon’s military budget to the biomedical, public health programs desperately needed to limit the current coronavirus outbreak and prevent future pandemics.
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