Blog - /blog/2019/06/28/750-billion-ndaa-steamrolls-ahead/
June 27, 2019 - This year's military spending is shaping up to be sky-high—the Senate's NDAA bill just approved the President's topline Pentagon budget of $750 billion for Fiscal Year 2020.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/06/19/raise-9-trillion-working-class-people/
June 19, 2019 - The “Moral Budget” underlying a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill is both a plan for the future and a map of how democratic societies came to be in such bad shape in 2019.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/06/18/nation-presidential-candidates-talking-poverty/
June 18, 2019 - ...housing, health care, college, and income security for all—could be paid for. For example, beyond ending wars overseas, what cuts to our $716 billion military budget (more than the next seven co...
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/poor-peoples-moral-budget-key-findings/
June 17, 2019 - Key findings from the Poor People's Moral Budget report.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/cutting-350-billion-from-military-budget/
June 16, 2019 - We identify as much as $350 billion in cuts that would bring the Pentagon budget down to roughly $400 billion per year, still more than the budgets of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea - combined.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/tax-day-2019-notes-and-sources/
April 11, 2019 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck, and due this year on April 15.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/tax-day-2019-social-media-toolkit/
April 11, 2019 - Tax Day 2019 graphics for social media.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/where-your-tax-dollar-was-spent-2018/
April 11, 2019 - How were your tax dollars spent in 2018? Here's a breakdown of how the federal government used every dollar you paid.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/seven-surprising-tax-facts-2019/
April 11, 2019 - Seven surprising facts about where our tax dollars go, and who pays what.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/03/19/Trump-Budget-Ends-Medicaid-Expansion-Axes-Housing/
March 19, 2019 - With this week’s budget release, the administration provided a fuller picture of its anti-government, pro-military vision for the U.S. The long list of cuts targets programs for the poor, middle...
Blog - /blog/2019/02/04/trump-budget-delayed-shutdown/
Feb. 4, 2019 - The president’s budget request, which is legally due on the first Monday in February, will be late this year as a direct result of the government shutdown.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/01/23/National-Emergency-Declaration-Power-Grab/
Jan. 23, 2019 - Lindsay Koshgarian argues that the government shutdown could very well lead to Trump calling a national emergency, which would be dangerous to freedom while also causing economic downturn.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/12/10/Skewed-Government-Economic-Priorities/
Dec. 10, 2018 - Trump wants $5 billion for the wall. Some Democratic leaders, rather than outright reject that figure, have said that they will back $1.6 billion for the wall and/or immigration enforcement at the bor...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/09/23/Trump-Tax-Plan-2-Cements-Worst-Economic-Policy/
Sept. 23, 2018 - Hot on the heels of last year’s once-in-a-generation tax changes, House Republicans are pushing a new, extended plan to double down on their previous efforts, which primarily awarded tax giveawa...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/09/13/Republicans-Scramble-to-Make-Tax-Cuts-Permanent/
Sept. 13, 2018 - House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady on Monday unveiled three tax reform bills as part of a Republican-led effort to make permanent many of the tax cuts enshrined in the law that passed last year
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/08/15/Trump-Snubbed-McCain-The-Media-Snubbed-Us/
Aug. 15, 2018 - If the media deems a petty snub more controversial than a massive, war-mongering spending bill, you can be sure Congress will follow. The bill passed by huge bipartisan margins in both the House and S...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/08/03/Defense-Bill-Should-Be-a-National-Scandal/
Aug. 3, 2018 - Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/07/11/Trump-Tells-NATO-Leaders-to-Double-Spending/
July 11, 2018 - Urging Europe to Mirror America's Wasteful War Budget, Trump Tells NATO Leaders to Double Spending John Queally One of the chief reasons that most European nations enjoy a higher standard of livi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/06/14/Military-Industrial-Drain/
June 14, 2018 - As Trump stokes tensions around the world, he’s adding fuel to the fire by demanding even more Pentagon spending. It’s a dangerous military buildup intended to underwrite endless wars and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/17/7-Surprising-Tax-Facts/
April 17, 2018 - Here’s where your tax dollars go (and who isn't paying taxes at all).
