Blog - /blog/2015/07/07/federal-budget-players-spotlight-john-boehner/
July 7, 2015 - NPP spolights major players in the federal budget process.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/07/07/gop-has-no-defense-for-defense-spending/
July 7, 2015 - ...spending and reducing the national debt. So why do we support reckless, bloated, wasteful government spending on so-called “defense” — and even fight to increase it?
Blog - /blog/2015/06/12/pentagon-prize-time-top-10-federal-contractors/
June 12, 2015 - In fiscal year 2014, the United States government paid out an astounding $444 billion in federal contracts -- equivalent to almost forty percent of the federal discretionary budget for 2014.
Guide - /guides/tipsheet-pentagon-spending/
June 11, 2015 - ...spending will total $598 billion, accounting for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending – that’s the portion of the federal budget that the president requests and lawmakers deter...
Analysis - /analysis/2015/pentagon-budget-request-fy2016/
June 4, 2015 - ...Defense. Here's what they asked for.
Blog - /blog/2015/05/21/myth-vs-fact-pentagon-slush-fund/
May 21, 2015 - ...ush fund was originally designed to fund our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it is now being used to help the Pentagon break existing spending caps.
Blog - /blog/2015/05/19/move-money-2015-shifting-spending-pentagon-local-priorities-new-hampshire/
May 19, 2015 - From May through July, National Priorities Project staff together with partners from the Peace Action Education Fund will visit four states as part of our Move the Money training series.
Blog - /blog/2015/05/13/good-bad-ugly-top-3-amendments-2016-national-defense-authorization-act/
May 13, 2015 - ...use of Representatives is considering the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and amendments. Here are three of the most notable amendments to the NDAA on offer.
Blog - /blog/2015/05/07/congress-budget-resolution-sequestration-name-only/
May 7, 2015 - ...spending limits for the federal government’s discretionary spending in fiscal year 2016.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/05/04/federal-budget-transparency-doug-hall/
May 4, 2015 - It’s Doug Hall’s mission to educate the taxpayer on where their taxes are really being spent. He talks to the Creating Wealth podcast about the federal discretionary budget and how the Nat...
Blog - /blog/2015/04/29/national-defense-authorization-act-five-things-you-should-know/
April 29, 2015 - ...use Armed Services Committee is marking up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). But what is the NDAA, and why should we care?
Blog - /blog/2015/04/22/would-cutting-military-spending-hurt-virginias-economy/
April 22, 2015 - ...spending, would thousands of Virginians suddenly be out of work?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/04/14/marketwatch-heres-where-your-tax-dollars-go/
April 14, 2015 - The federal government spent your income-tax dollars in two big ways in 2014: on the military and on health care.
Blog - /blog/2015/04/13/pentagon-spending-fy-2016-great-debate/
April 13, 2015 - ...use and Senate have all lined up with a whopping request for Pentagon and related spending of $613 billion. What alternative do we have to this bloated Pentagon budget?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/03/22/balance-budget-but-not-on-backs-of-poor/
March 22, 2015 - ...use Press Corps was called into the East Room for a ceremony marking “a balanced budget.”
Analysis - /analysis/2015/competing-visions-2015/
March 19, 2015 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Analysis - /analysis/2015/tax-day-2015/tax-day-2015-notes-and-sources/
March 16, 2015 - ...uses several categories of spending called functions, and within those, subfunctions. While NPP uses 13 different budget categories to sort federal spending, these do not correspond to the offici...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/02/20/budget-five-small-steps-forward-one-big-step-back/
Feb. 20, 2015 - On February 2, President Obama released a budget outline for fiscal year 2016 with many proposals that reflect Americans' most cherished values and priorities, according to opinion polls. The $4 trill...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/02/12/pentagon-sequestrations-doubly-bad-policy/
Feb. 12, 2015 - ...defense and non-defense programs. President Obama’s proposed budget does little to escape this framework, and would end the sequester with a dollar for dollar infusion of funding to defense and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/02/10/what-would-confucius-say-about-lack-of-trust/
Feb. 10, 2015 - ...us,” one of his disciples asks him about the essence of good government. Confucius replies as follows: “The requisites of government are that there be a sufficiency of food, enough militar...
