Blog - /blog/2022/07/06/while-nation-reels-pentagon-budget-keeps-ramping-nuclear-weapons/
- ...deficit increase of the failed Build Back Better infrastructure bill.
Blog - /blog/2021/05/12/americas-immigration-solution/
- What's the answer to declining births, labor shortages, and spending shortfalls? Immigration. Just ask Germany.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/07/plan-end-poverty-united-states/
- A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
Blog - /blog/2020/05/14/pandemic-military-spending-extravagant-waste/
- In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
Blog - /blog/2020/01/15/yes-we-really-can-cut-pentagon-pay-medicare-all/
- A blog from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget took issue with my October 17 op-ed in the The New York Times, “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare f...
Blog - /blog/2019/08/09/bipartisan-738-billion-military-budget-deal/
- In July, lawmakers voted along bipartisan lines to pass a budget deal (now also Trump-approved) that will fund the federal government for the next two years, and help the United States ...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- If Trump pretends that the Pentagon is also subject to strict spending limits, he can argue that his more than $50 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and Legal Aid ar...
Blog - /blog/2017/12/04/tax-reform-bad-only-comes-along-once-generation/
- Possibly the single worst thing about it is the cynical way that its supporters want to use it to create an excuse to gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Blog - /blog/2017/01/19/trumps-budget-cuts/
- Today the Trump transition team suggested $10.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years.
Blog - /blog/2016/11/11/open-community-forum-friday/
- Please mark your calendars and join us for an engaging discussion on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.
Blog - /blog/2016/06/28/senate-vote-promesa-way-help-puerto-rico/
- Puerto Rico is in crisis. What should the U.S. federal government do about it?
Blog - /blog/2016/03/24/balanced-budget-amendment-three-reasons-its-colossally-bad-idea/
- A balanced budget amendment was, is, and will remain a really, really bad idea.
Blog - /blog/2016/01/12/president-obamas-last-state-union-look-back/
- Today President Obama will give his final State of the Union address. A look back at seven years of president's budgets and our predictions about what you'll hear tonight.
Blog - /blog/2015/03/13/return-debt-ceiling/
- The debt ceiling suspension ends March 15, 2015. It’s unclear exactly when the money will run out, but sooner or later, lawmakers will have to deal with it.
Blog - /blog/2014/07/03/planning-fourth-july-road-trip-not-so-fast-our-highway-trust-fund-going-broke/
- As the flags wave, the fireworks fly, and AAA forecasts that 41 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home this Independence Day weekend, a transportation crisis is in the wo...
Blog - /blog/2014/02/13/congress-passes-clean-debt-ceiling-bill/
- The battle to pass a debt ceiling suspension bill is finally over. Earlier this week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a suspension of the debt ceiling until March 15, 2015. ...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/trump-gop-stack-deck-against-struggling-americans-build-war-and-mass-deportation/
March 4, 2025 - The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-reach-historic-levels-militarized-spending-expense-human-need/
Feb. 12, 2025 - Senate Republicans are aiming to cut federal spending on social services while increasing the budget by at least $346 billion over the next four years ($86.5 billion annually) to fund the Pentagon and...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/03/progressive-say-submitting-gop-ransom-debt-celing/
June 3, 2023 - "Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/19/ordinary-americans-subsidize-military-industrial/
April 19, 2023 - This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
