Rep. Scholten proudly voted for Trump’s $900.6 billion US military budget, demonstrating yet again that she is an imperialist

The US House of Representatives voted 312-112 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026. Rep. Hillary Scholten was one of the many Democrats to vote with the Republicans to support the nearly $1 trillion US military budget.

In a recent statement the National Priorities Project, which opposes US military spending wrote:

“The last thing Congress should do is deliver $1 trillion into the hands of Secretary Pete Hegseth. Under Secretary Hegseth’s leadership, the Pentagon has killed unidentified boaters in the Caribbean, sent the National Guard to occupy peaceful U.S. cities, and driven a destructive and divisive anti-diversity agenda in the miltiary,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. 

National Priorities Project has previously shown what $1 trillion could do for the country: from ending the nursing shortage to insuring uninsured children, preventing evictions, and replacing lead pipes, every dollar the Pentagon wastes is a dollar that isn’t helping Americans get by.

Rep. Scholten has been blaming the Trump Administration for the increased cost of living, yet in standard hypocritical fashion she votes to approve $900.6 billion for militarism.

Guess how Rep. Scholten decided to communicate her vote for militarism on social media? On her Facebook page she wrote:

“The House just passed the NDAA, which included a full reauthorization of the United States Coast Guard, ensuring continued support for Great Lakes operations and the people who keep our waters safe. As a proud member of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, I’m thrilled to see this bipartisan legislation clear the House floor to support our hardworking Coasties and keep our nation safe.”

Scholten doesn’t even have the courage to talk about the concrete consequences of her vote for the nearly $1 trillion US military budget. Scholten has the audacity to tell us that voting to fund US militarism and imperialism will keep us safe.

The facts are that voting for the $900.6 billion US military budget, Rep. Scholten is voting for the following:

• To maintain more than 700 US military bases around the world.
• To provided billions in corporate welfare to weapons manufacturers in the US.
• To perpetuate Climate Change, since the US military is one of the largest single consumers of fossil fuels on the planet, even larger than most countries.
• To support the ongoing funding of Israel with billions in weapons, while they continue their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.
• To support the US National Guard’s deployment to US cities to terrorize people and to assist ICE in rounding up undocumented immigrants.
• To support the Trump Administration’s bombing of boats in the Caribbean and possible US military invasion of Venezuela.
• To support the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, weapons that would indiscriminately and instantly killed millions of people and all other life forms.

When people vote for Rep. Hillary Scholten, this is what they are voting for. Don’t give me that lesser evil shit, this is evil, brutal and oppressive.

If you want a more honest and critical assessment of US foreign policy, then I encourage you to sign up for an 8 week class that GRIID is offering and will begin on January 15th.