ALT Most military spending goes to for-profit companies. Private contractors at 55% of the Pentagon budget in fiscal year 2023. This chart shows military contract spending and other military spending for each year between and including 2019 and 2023. In order, in billions of dollars: 2019, 397 in contract spending, 291 billion in other spending; 2020, 430, 294; 2021, 390, 314; 2022, 420, 357; 467, 385. Data: Office of Management and Budget and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

ALT Rep. Pressley’s Statement on President Biden’s Clemency Announcement (1/2): “I applaud President Biden for granting pardons to 39 individuals and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals on home confinement, demonstrating the power of clemency to address systemic injustices, reunite families, and set our nation on a path to healing. “By taking this meaningful and historic action, President Biden is changing the lives of nearly 1,500 people and ensuring they can remain in community with their loved ones. People on home confinement are disproportionately elderly, chronically ill, pose no threat to public safety, and have successfully reintegrated into their communities.

ALT Rep. Pressley’s Statement on President Biden’s Clemency Announcement (2/2): “Thanks to President Biden, today a near 1,500 families will have their lives changed forever and I congratulate each and every family on this new beginning. With 39 days remaining in his presidency, President Biden has the power to continue to use his clemency authority to change and save the lives of many, many other Americans behind the wall. It is the right thing to do, it is the moral thing to do, and it is a matter of legacy.”