The House has passed a staggering $1.15 trillion military authorization bill—and buried inside it is a plan to bind America’s military future even more tightly to Israel’s wars.

The Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act is not just another Pentagon spending bill. It is a blueprint for permanent war—written while weapons corporations and powerful lobbying networks wield far more influence in Washington than the people who will pay the price.

Its message is unmistakable:

The American people can oppose the wars. Congress will fund and expand them anyway.

America and Israel’s War Machines Are Being Fused Together

Section 219 of the House NDAA would establish the “United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The Senate version contains a corresponding provision, Section 1217.

This is not ordinary military cooperation.

The proposal would direct the Pentagon to appoint a powerful executive agent to synchronize and accelerate U.S.–Israel military research, weapons development, testing, production and industrial cooperation.

It will deepen integration across some of the most dangerous technologies on Earth:

• Artificial intelligence
• Autonomous weapons
• Cyberwarfare
• Biotechnology
• Missile and air defense
• Surveillance and data-fusion systems
• Joint weapons production

This provision risks hardwiring Israel’s military and defense contractors into America’s technological, procurement and weapons-development infrastructure.

Once these systems, corporations and supply chains are fused together, separating them could become politically and economically difficult—regardless of what Israel’s government does or what the American people demand.

A Quincy Institute analysis warns that the initiative could give its Pentagon executive agent extraordinary authority, potentially overriding agencies responsible for evaluating the risks of transferring sensitive military technology. It could also make military assistance to Israel harder to track by shifting it from recognizable “aid” into less transparent forms of permanent “cooperation.” Read the analysis.

This is not merely an alliance. It is the construction of a permanent, deeply integrated war industry—with fewer opportunities for the public to stop it.

We the People Said No. Washington Heard the War Industry Instead.

Americans are increasingly rejecting the bloodshed carried out in their name.

Israel’s military operations are not confined to Gaza: Israeli forces continue operating in southern Lebanon, while raids, displacement and violence involving Israeli forces and settlers have intensified across the occupied West Bank. Israel has also participated with the United States in attacks against Iran, escalating the danger of a wider regional catastrophe.

The public is not asking for this escalation. A national AP-NORC poll released in July 2026 found that only 22% of Americans believe Israel’s continuing military operations in Gaza are justified, while 40% said the United States is already too supportive of Israel.

When the United States became directly involved in military action against Iran, the public response was equally clear: a March 2026 NPR/PBS Marist poll found that 56% of Americans opposed it, while Pew Research Center found that roughly six in ten believed using force was the wrong decision.

Yet Congress continues moving in the opposite direction—pouring more money into war and binding America’s military technology, weapons production and foreign policy even more tightly to the Israeli government. 

The people say no more war.

Congress responds with $1.15 trillion for the military—and a deeper commitment to the very conflicts Americans oppose.

That is not representative democracy.

That is corporate rule with a flag draped over it.

The War Industry Always Gets Its Money

While families struggle to afford food, rent, health care and utilities, Congress can always find more money for missiles, drones, surveillance systems and military contractors.

Every new conflict creates new contracts.

Every new threat becomes a sales opportunity.

Every bomb must be replaced. Every weapons system must be upgraded. Every escalation creates another justification for spending.

The corporations that manufacture these weapons do not simply wait for government decisions. They lobby Congress, finance political campaigns, hire former public officials and help shape the policies that determine which weapons taxpayers will purchase next.

Then comes the payoff: public money flows into private corporate accounts while the public inherits the debt, danger and death.

War is catastrophic for humanity. For the corporations selling the weapons, it is a business model.

The Real Merger Is Between Corporate Money and Government Power

How does Congress keep approving policies that voters oppose?

Because in America’s current political system, every person has a voice—but not every voice comes with a multimillion-dollar lobbying operation, political action committee or corporate-funded influence network.

The Supreme Court has spent generations manufacturing constitutional rights for corporations and treating political spending as protected speech. That has allowed artificial entities and concentrated wealth to overwhelm the political power of actual human beings.

Lobbying organizations do not bleed.

Corporate balance sheets do not send their children to war.

Yet these artificial entities can spend enormous sums influencing the politicians who decide whether wars begin, continue or expand.

The people pay. The corporations profit. Congress calls it national security.

Follow the Money

The beneficiaries of permanent war are not difficult to identify.

AIPAC has publicly championed the provision, calling it “critical” and urging Congress to expand U.S.–Israel cooperation in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, missile defense, counter-drone technology and other military systems. The same organization has built one of the most powerful election-spending operations in American politics.

During the 2024 election cycle, AIPAC’s political operation—including its affiliated super PAC, the United Democracy Project—spent more than $100 million influencing federal elections. That included tens of millions in candidate contributions and outside spending, frequently targeting candidates who challenged unconditional U.S. support for Israel. Federal Elections Commission - Sludge showed that the combined total had already crossed $100 million months before Election Day.

Since launching its PAC and super PAC in late 2021, AIPAC’s political network has reportedly spent more than $221 million—demonstrating the enormous power concentrated wealth can exert over who reaches Congress and what policies lawmakers consider politically safe. The Associated Press reported on that spending and its influence in congressional primaries.

But political pressure is only one side of the war machine.

On the other side of this influence pipeline are the corporations positioned to manufacture the missiles, drones, surveillance platforms, artificial-intelligence systems and cyberwarfare technologies promoted by the NDAA.

Between 2020 and 2024, the Pentagon awarded $2.4 trillion in contracts to private companies—approximately 54% of its discretionary spending. An astonishing $771 billion went to just five weapons manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman.  Research from the Quincy Institute and Brown University’s Costs of War project found that wars in Gaza and Ukraine helped drive surging weapons transfers and contractor revenue.

The political formula is brutally simple:

Powerful PACs help elect the politicians. Weapons manufacturers lobby them. Congress authorizes the programs. Taxpayers fund the contracts. Corporations collect the profits.

Lawmakers do not need to be directly “bought” for money to control the outcome. The corruption is systemic—and far more dangerous than a simple exchange of cash for a single vote.

Politicians understand that opposing a powerful political network can bring millions of dollars in attack advertising into their next election. They also know that major weapons manufacturers can direct campaign contributions, lobbying resources and government contracts into congressional districts.

That creates a political system designed to reward escalation and punish dissent.

Most Americans cannot hire an army of lobbyists. They cannot spend millions shaping a congressional primary. They cannot promise weapons contracts or blanket a district with attack advertisements.

AIPAC, super PACs, billionaires and weapons manufacturers can.

When political money and war profits speak in Washington, We the People are forced to shout just to be heard.

The faces in power may change. The system does not.

This Is Why Overturning Citizens United Is Not Enough

The FY2027 NDAA demonstrates why the world needs the We the People Amendment, H.J.Res. 54.

For more than a century, corporations and other artificial entities have used constitutional rights intended for human beings to amass political power. Courts have also treated spending money to influence elections as constitutionally protected speech. Together, these doctrines allow concentrated wealth to dominate elections, lobbying and public policy.

The We the People Amendment would confront both foundations of corporate rule:

• Constitutional rights would belong to natural persons—not corporations or other artificial entities.
• Money spent to influence elections would no longer be treated as constitutionally protected speech.
• Federal, state and local governments would be required to regulate political contributions and expenditures to protect political equality.

This would not prevent people from organizing, speaking, publishing, protesting or petitioning their government. It would help ensure that a weapons corporation, lobbying organization or billionaire cannot use concentrated wealth to drown out millions of human voices.

No constitutional amendment can decide every future foreign-policy question. But democracy requires that those decisions be made through a political system accountable to people—not to corporations profiting from war, billionaire donors or powerful influence networks.

Our Military Must Serve the People—Not the War Industry

The question is not whether the United States should ever cooperate with another country or invest in genuine national defense.

The question is who decides.

Do the American people decide where our money goes, what risks are taken in our name and which foreign wars we enter? Or do military contractors, powerful lobbying networks and major campaign donors shape those decisions before the public even knows what Congress has approved?

We will not bomb our way to democracy abroad—leaving death, displacement and devastation in our wake—while concentrated wealth destroys democracy at home.

The FY2027 NDAA is another warning: when big money controls our elections, it shapes our foreign policy—and profits from the consequences.

It is time to declare independence from corporate rule.

Tell Congress to cosponsor H.J.Res. 54, the We the People Amendment. Constitutional rights belong to human beings. Money is not speech. Our government must answer to We the People—not the war profiteers.