Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/
- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/28/president-trumps-54-billion-pentagon-grab/
- The United States already spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - For far too long, the U.S. has clung to a budget that prioritizes war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into ...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - Nearly two-thirds of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/17/tax-day-pentagon-contractor-day/
April 17, 2023 - NPP just released their Tax Day 2023 receipt, which found that the average taxpayer paid $1,087 for Pentagon contractors in 2022. The average taxpayer paid $70 for deportations and bord...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/03/13/20-years-dept-homeland-security-is-failure/
March 13, 2023 - Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. government took a sharp turn toward surveillance, racial profiling, and an immigration policy based on fear.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/12/22/2023-military-budget-hike-3200-times-nlrb-increase/
Dec. 22, 2022 - ...spending for the war machine, scraps for workers.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/11/04/Midterms-have-enormous-stakes-for-poor-Americans/
Nov. 4, 2022 - Our wellbeing is on the ballot this November. Amid a pandemic, rising inflation, and deepening financial instability, we need a strong commitment from all candidates to our children, families and plan...
Analysis - /analysis/2022/fact-sheet-no-national-security-without-climate-security/
Sept. 29, 2022 - ...security - and human security - of the 21st century. Decades of inaction have led to worsening and more frequent extreme weather events, with associated loss of life and property. And yet in Washingto...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/29/biden-requests-record-defense-budget/
March 29, 2022 - ...spending by proposing a record $813.3 billion in military spending—an increase of $31 billion, about four percent, over this year.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/10/03/climate-crisis-vs-military-spending/
Oct. 3, 2021 - The Climate Crisis is the most-certain and the most-immediate of any of the threats the U.S. faces, including the military.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/30/21-trillion-20-years-war-no-human-infrastructure/
Sept. 30, 2021 - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has spent a mindboggling $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization. Meanwhile, the entire Republican Party and a handful of centrist Democrats are trying to bl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/09/war-on-terror-militarized-america-more-than-ever/
Sept. 9, 2021 - The War on Terror projected American power abroad with devastating consequences. But it also wrought suffering and waste at home, with consequences we’re still living with today.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/millennial-lawmakers-fresh-takes-foreign-policy/
Sept. 8, 2021 - Millennials who were just kids on 9/11 are now old enough to hold office. Research shows they're likely to see the world much differently than older generations because of their formative age at the t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/us-state-of-insecurity/
Sept. 8, 2021 - ...spending for the “War on Terrorism”, but also homeland security, increased spending on local law enforcement, and more.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/reparations-money-us-spent-21-trillion-military/
Sept. 8, 2021 - One of the arguments against the U.S. paying reparations to the descendants of American slaves is that such a program would be too expensive — that the U.S. just can’t afford it.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/08/money-spent-on-war-prompts-thoughts-what-could-be/
Sept. 8, 2021 - ...spending against a global war on terror spurred on by the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/03/us-spent-21-trillion-on-militarization-since-911/
Sept. 3, 2021 - The cost of the War on Terror and its catastrophic consequences at home and abroad are staggering: $21 trillion, according to a new report. Imagine what we could do with that money if we used it for h...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/reports-war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion/
Sept. 2, 2021 - President Joe Biden, visibly agitated, lambasted the estimated $2 trillion cost of the US war in Afghanistan during his first speech since the end of the two-decade military campaign there on Tuesday....
Article - /pressroom/articles/2021/09/02/war-on-terror-cost-21-trillion-killed-million/
Sept. 2, 2021 - The U.S. has spent $21 trillion on foreign and domestic militarization" since the fateful 2001 attacks that spawned the Afghanistan intervention, marking a new era of U.S.-led conflict across the glob...
