Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/18/10-main-ways-gov-spends-your-tax-dollars/
April 18, 2017 - Federal government spending is closing in on $4 trillion a year. Even though a new administration is promising a wave of change, it’s still going to require a lot of money to keep the count...
Analysis - /analysis/2017/militarized-budget-2017/
April 3, 2017 - In 2016, the "militarized" budget amounted to 64 percent of discretionary spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/tax-day-2017-notes-and-sources/
March 28, 2017 - Tax Day 2017: How we did it.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/03/17/Trump-order-downsized-government/
March 17, 2017 - President Donald Trump issued an executive order on "a Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch" today.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/national-priorities-project-statement-trump-fy-2018-budget-proposal/
March 16, 2017 - ...Housing & Urban Development (13% cut); Agriculture Department (21% cut); and Health & Human Services (16% cut). ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/03/16/what-got-cut-trumps-budget-proposal/
March 16, 2017 - The White House released its “skinny budget,” a simplified version of the administration’s federal budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year. It differs radically from President Obama...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/02/27/8-things-instead-of-military/
Feb. 27, 2017 - "There is ample money within the Pentagon budget that could be put to better use," NPP Lindsay Koshgarian Research Director told ATTN.
Blog - /blog/2016/09/29/congress-finally-made-deal-clean-flints-water-are-there-more-infrastructure-deals-come/
Sept. 29, 2016 - In the coming months, as we usher in a new administration and Congress, there will be an opportunity to finally invest in infrastructure that would strengthen America for decades to come.
Blog - /blog/2016/06/17/congress-votes-2017-pentagon-spending-good-bad-and-ugly/
June 17, 2016 - Over the past 10 days, both the House and Senate have held a series of votes on Pentagon spending.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/26/hiroshima-and-hope-president-ask-president-obama-lead-us-toward-nuclear-free-world/
May 26, 2016 - Ask President Obama to lead the way to a nuclear-free world.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/23/3-alarming-ndaa-provisions/
May 23, 2016 - House lawmakers passed the NDAA last week with so many controversial provisions, the president has already issued a veto threat.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/12/our-failure-invest-infrastructure-literally-making-us-sick-justiceforflint/
May 12, 2016 - The residents of Flint have gone without clean water for 748 days, and counting.
Blog - /blog/2016/04/26/4-things-congress-has-been-doing-instead-passing-budget-resolution/
April 26, 2016 - What's Congress been doing instead of passing a budget resolution? We name 4 things.
Blog - /blog/2016/04/19/were-federal-budget-limbo/
April 19, 2016 - This is why we can’t have nice things: last week, lawmakers in Congress missed a huge budget deadline.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2016/03/23/fiver-ways-gop-budget-would-do-real-harm/
March 23, 2016 - House Republicans have in mind so many sweeping and radical changes throughout the federal government that singling out five of them only begins to capture the real harm a budget like this would do to...
Analysis - /analysis/2016/competing-visions-2016/
March 21, 2016 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up to Americans’ priorities.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2016/03/17/5-questions-you-wont-hear-asked-pres-debate/
March 17, 2016 - Unless we address these long-standing foreign policy questions, we’ll continue playing international whack-a-mole for the next four years.
Analysis - /analysis/2016/tax-day-2016/tax-day-2016-notes-and-sources/
March 10, 2016 - Tax Day shows how your income taxes were spent. Notes & Sources describes our data sources and how we analyzed the numbers.
Analysis - /analysis/2016/tax-day-2016/tax-day-2016-seven-surprising-things-you-should-know-about-taxes/
March 10, 2016 - There's plenty to like about taxes. And what you don't like, you can change.
Blog - /blog/2016/03/10/whats-going-federal-budget/
March 10, 2016 - We've seen some budget proposals for FY 2017, but what's next in Congress?
