Here’s How to Force Biden to Cut the Pentagon Budget Get organized. Ask for meetings with your representatives or their foreign policy staffers. Be fierce; be relentless. Channel the grit of a Pentagon lobbyist. Portside, May 5, 2021 Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd ALTERNET Imagine this scenario: A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.”…….. Progressives uniting as a block to resist out-of-control military spending would be a no-nonsense exercise of raw power……… Without progressives on board, President Biden may not be able to secure enough votes to pass a federal budget that would then green light the reconciliation process needed for his broad domestic agenda.