There is an excellent argument that the “defund” trope has become so politicized that it now gets in the way of, rather than advances, policy advocacy of any stripe.
But that doesn’t mean we should reflexively dismiss the underlying idea that government funds should be shifted away from wasteful or counterproductive purposes and redirected to beneficial ones.
Case in point: The United States spends far too much on the Pentagon. The country would be more secure, safer, healthier and more just if we shifted some of the nearly $1 trillion in Pentagon spending to priority domestic and human needs.
