Blog - /blog/2016/06/08/tell-senator-mccain-no-18-billion-bonus-pentagon/
June 8, 2016 - The Senate begins debating amendments to the NDAA this week. Learn how you can weigh in on one in particular.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/23/3-alarming-ndaa-provisions/
May 23, 2016 - ...use lawmakers passed the NDAA last week with so many controversial provisions, the president has already issued a veto threat.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2016/05/12/military-budget-new-world/
May 12, 2016 - ...Defense Budget” (editorial, May 9), you hint at but do not fully disclose the extent to which a Pentagon run amok shortchanges our way of life.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/11/cellphones-bigger-backpack-or-why-universal-preschool-isnt-priority/
May 11, 2016 - Some things are better left in the past. Huge Pentagon budgets should be one of them.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/10/pentagon-spending-out-control/
May 10, 2016 - The Pentagon's budget should be better - not bigger.
Analysis - /analysis/2016/competing-visions-2016/
March 21, 2016 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up to Americans’ priorities.
Analysis - /analysis/2016/tax-day-2016/tax-day-2016-notes-and-sources/
March 10, 2016 - Tax Day shows how your income taxes were spent. Notes & Sources describes our data sources and how we analyzed the numbers.
Blog - /blog/2016/03/08/christmas-march-pentagons-unfunded-priorities-wish-list/
March 8, 2016 - Dear Santa: I want a bicycle and some blocks. P.S. I also need an iPad, Xbox and a hoverboard. And an F-35.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2016/02/26/vision-2016-beltway-broad-view/
Feb. 26, 2016 - ...Defense department’s budget proposal for next year may bring a brief respite for defense contractors after years of lower funding.
Blog - /blog/2016/02/24/does-presidents-budget-achieve-our-new-years-resolutions/
Feb. 24, 2016 - We set 3 resolutions for 2016, all in the name of making the federal budget work for all Americans. Does President Obama's budget proposal achieve them?
Analysis - /analysis/2016/president-obamas-2017-budget/
Feb. 11, 2016 - ...spending and military force.
Blog - /blog/2016/01/06/three-new-years-resolutions-2016/
Jan. 6, 2016 - It might take more than one year to get there, but here’s where we need to head in 2016.
Blog - /blog/2015/11/10/will-president-sign-new-ndaa/
Nov. 11, 2015 - ...Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the president. Again.
Blog - /blog/2015/11/02/budget-deal-would-you-sign-it/
Nov. 2, 2015 - If you were President Obama, would you sign this budget deal?
Blog - /blog/2015/10/30/bipartisan-budget-deal-averts-devastating-cuts-lets-pentagon-sidestep-caps/
Oct. 30, 2015 - ...usion of a $59 billion slush fund that will bring total Pentagon spending over the $600 billion mark in 2016.
Blog - /blog/2015/10/23/president-vetoes-national-defense-authorization-act/
Oct. 23, 2015 - For the last 50+ years, the NDAA has enjoyed bipartisan support - yesterday, it was vetoed by the president.
Blog - /blog/2015/10/08/congress-sends-national-defense-authorization-act-president/
Oct. 8, 2015 - ...Defense Authorization Act, which lays out how the Pentagon might spend its 2016 $612 billion budget.
Blog - /blog/2015/08/12/federal-budget-players-spotlightjohn-mccain/
Aug. 12, 2015 - NPP spotlights major players in the federal budget process. This week: John McCain.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/07/24/defense-spending-wasteful-unsafe/
July 24, 2015 - Defense spending is wasteful, and it might actually make the US less safe Genevive LaFranc The U.S. military accounts for a staggering 40% of global military spending, but this isn’t anythi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/07/17/private-defense-contractors-need-war/
July 17, 2015 - ...Defense Contractors Need War to Keep Profits High Mark Karlin The National Priorities Project, an organization that analyzes the US budget, projects that "in fiscal year 2015, military spending is pro...
