Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/21/border-wall-contention-defense-authorization-talks/
Nov. 21, 2019 - Lindsay Koshgarian, program director for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, is skeptical either party would want to force the Department of Defense into a partial shu...
Analysis - /analysis/2019/five-ways-congress-should-invest-974-billion-instead-trumps-immigration-policy/
Nov. 15, 2019 - At least $9.74 billion of our tax dollars could be used to lift up our children and communities instead of tearing families apart.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/21/warren-pay-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 21, 2019 - The top-tier Democrat — whose motto is that she has a plan for everything — doesn’t have one yet for how to pay for universal health care.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/08/09/deficit-hawks-enabling-next-us-war/
Aug. 9, 2019 - The U.S. budget is rigged to hold essential domestic programs hostage to the Pentagon's war chest.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/07/26/why-did-democrats-pass-trumps-2-year-budget/
July 26, 2019 - The House on Thursday passed a massive $2.7 trillion budget bill with overwhelming support from Democrats and only 65 Republican votes. The bill suspends the looming debt ceiling for 2 years, until ju...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/07/05/peace-justice-poor-peoples-moral-budget/
July 5, 2019 - With community radio in Chico, California, NPP research analyst Ashik Siddique discusses the Trump military budget and trade-offs on how that money could be used elsewhere, as detailed in the Poor Peo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/06/30/new-yorker-democrats-cautious-return-war-poverty/
June 30, 2019 - The Reverend Dr. William Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign believes that policymakers should speak both more specifically and more unapologetically about the plight of struggling Americans.
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...
