Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/05/18/1-trillion-pentagon-budget-social-needs/
May 18, 2025 - ...military
Blog - /blog/2025/05/13/trillion-dollar-trade-what-if-presidents-budget-prioritized-communities-instead-war-profiteers/
May 13, 2025 - President Trump is requesting a record-high $1.01 trillion “defense” budget for FY 2026 while gutting federal agencies and social services that actually keep the country safe – thing...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/tax-day-2025-notes-and-sources/
April 9, 2025 - ...Military Personnel: Includes outlays under Militarism subfunctions for the Bureau, “Military Personnel.” Nuclear Weapons: Includes outlays for subfunction 053, “Atomic Ene...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/
April 9, 2025 - In February 2025, the average price for a dozen eggs was $5.90. Below, find out how much you might have paid for weapons and war, mass deportations, and programs that are on the Trump-Musk choppi...
Blog - /blog/2025/03/17/congress-boosts-war-machine-and-executive-power-while-cutting-services-working-people/
March 18, 2025 - While the continuing resolution is a step in the wrong direction, we must stay focused on an even bigger fight ahead: budget reconciliation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/03/12/pentagon-contractors-dont-save-lives-or-money-medi/
March 12, 2025 - Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
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/2025/02/12/america-cant-afford-trumps-mass-deportations/
Feb. 12, 2025 - For the cost of mass deportations, we could instead erase medical debt, provide universal school lunches, and end homelessness.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-would-increase-spending-pentagon-and-deportations-expense-sol/
Feb. 11, 2025 - We have the means to solve homelessness, poverty, substance use, and more – but it will require spending priorities that line up with those needs instead of giving more to weapons contractors an...
Analysis - /analysis/2024/weapons-warming-world-us-contributions-green-climate-fund-vs-foreign-military-fi/
Nov. 22, 2024 - To avoid the most destabilizing effects of a warming planet at home and abroad, the U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities and commit to providing a fair share of global climate adaptati...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2024/08/07/mass-deportations-would-be-a-nightmare/
Aug. 7, 2024 - The popular GOP slogan would tear millions of families apart, including mine. It would also be a moral, logistical, and economic disaster.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2024/07/16/military-budget-contracts-ukraine-gaza/
July 16, 2024 - ...military like it’s World War III. Diverting that money to jobs, healthcare, and the climate would make us far safer.
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/
April 3, 2024 - It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how many know where their tax dollars really go?
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/tax-day-2024-notes-and-sources/
March 26, 2024 - National Priorities Project's Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2024/01/11/Budget-Ensures-Bombs-Will-Keep-Dropping/
Jan. 11, 2024 - ...military funding comes at the direct cost of funding social programs and climate programs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/30/Sending-Israel-more-aid-is-lose-lose-proposition/
Nov. 30, 2023 - The kind of mass destruction we’re seeing in Gaza is unimaginable to most of us in the United States. But we see suffering here too — in the form of homelessness, the opioid epid...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/29/Pentagon-Just-Cant-Pass-an-Audit/
Nov. 29, 2023 - Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - For far too long, the U.S. has clung to a budget that prioritizes war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into ...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/more-military-aid-israel-will-mean-more-deaths/
Oct. 20, 2023 - ...military aid or weapons that would cause more deaths. Instead, the U.S. should use its considerable diplomatic strength to call for an immediate ceasefire.
