Blog - /blog/2013/03/04/house-bill-funds-government-remainder-year/
March 5, 2013 - The legislation introduced yesterday would extend the current spending bill through the end of the fiscal year – in other words, Congress is proposing to go through this entire fiscal year witho...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/bipartisan-coalition-calls-for-reforming-sequester/
Feb. 26, 2013 - ...of 22 interest groups has signed a new letter urging Congress to make cuts to the Defense Department on the scale of the sequester but to shift the cuts to different areas of the defense budget. &ldq...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/24/sequestrations-havoc/
Feb. 25, 2013 - ...of the problem believing it unwise to cut federal investment in the midst of continued economic crisis – especially when sequestration takes meaningful tax reform off the table. Now, just days a...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/sequestration-pentagon-and-states/
Feb. 21, 2013 - ...offers selected state-level briefs focused on the local impact of looming automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration and historically high levels of Pentagon spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/12/pentagon-urges-delay-in-devastating-budget-cuts/
Feb. 12, 2013 - ...warned in dire terms on Tuesday that $46 billion in budget cuts due to go into effect in two weeks would erode the nation's ability to go to war and appealed to Congress to delay the reductions.
Blog - /blog/2012/11/21/fight-future-how-budget-talks-affect-young-people/
Nov. 21, 2012 - ...of Americans.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/education-job-training-and-fiscal-showdown/executive-summary/
Nov. 15, 2012 - ...of total public spending. Meanwhile, rising tuition pushes college out of reach for millions of young people. Education is fundamentally connected to jobs, which is currently the top priority for most...
Blog - /blog/2012/10/30/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Oct. 30, 2012 - The two presidential candidates have put forth very different proposals on nearly every issue, and now it's up to voters to choose the path our country will take for years to come. From Medicare to ed...
Blog - /blog/2012/10/24/pentagon-spending-obama-vs-romney/
Oct. 24, 2012 - During Monday’s presidential debate both candidates discussed their plans for future Pentagon spending. Gov. Romney claimed that President Obama would cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon’s b...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/10/17/big-sticks-cost-money/
Oct. 17, 2012 - ...War Two isolationism. That could lead to more Middle East conflict and defense spending. It’s also just as risky as President Barack Obama’s stance.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-military-spending/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...of military spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project compares the candidates on 12 key issues.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/09/07/fact-checking-obamas-speech/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars…” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.37 trillion, according to the National Priorities Project....
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/07/18/four-spending-myths-keeping-us-from-recovery/
July 18, 2012 - ...of state. Each of these claims has grabbed national attention in a big way, sucking up years’ worth of precious airtime. That’s a serious bummer, since each of them is a spending myth of t...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/18/you-ask-we-answer-sequestration-and-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - ...of Newcastle, WA, asks, “I keep hearing how bad these automatic spending cuts will be for the Pentagon. Will any other programs get cut?”We get a LOT of questions about the automatic spend...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/29/two-choices-before-us/
May 29, 2012 - ...off with two historic commemorations—a religious event that turned political, and a political event that turned religious.
Blog - /blog/2012/05/24/veterans-and-cost-war/
May 25, 2012 - ...of Iraq in March 2003, National Priorities Project has tracked the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have focused on the tax dollars expended related to the conduct of these wars, and offe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
Blog - /blog/2012/05/22/accounting-war/
May 23, 2012 - ...of 2014.Yet the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/on-the-war-path-the-nearly-1-trillion-national-sec/
May 22, 2012 - ...of headlines about
