Blog - /blog/2013/04/15/top-five-things-know-about-pentagons-budget-request/
April 17, 2013 - Last week the Obama Administration released its long-overdue budget request for fiscal year 2014. As part of the request, the administration is seeking $526.6 billion for the Pentagon. This amount doe...
Blog - /blog/2013/04/10/president-obamas-2014-budget-top-5-things-know/
April 10, 2013 - Today President Obama released his fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which set a record for arriving two months after the legal deadline of the first Monday in February. Here are the top five things to kno...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/fiscal-year-2014-pentagon-budget-analysis/
April 10, 2013 - Overview, highlights, and details of the Pentagon's 2014 budget request.
Blog - /blog/2013/04/08/presidents-budget-why-it-still-matters/
April 8, 2013 - Back in January, however, the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced it would delay the scheduled Feb. 4 release of the president’s fiscal year 2014 budget request until e...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/25/march-madness-tale-two-budgets/
March 25, 2013 - After months of inaction on the federal budget, Congress is now wrapping up work on two – the budget for fiscal year 2013, which began back on Oct. 1, 2012, and the first steps in a budget for f...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/22/a-post-iraq-security-consensus/
March 22, 2013 - On the tenth anniversary of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, we may be witnessing a seismic shift in America's politics of national security. After decades of using hawkish positions for partisan ad...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/20/there-federal-budget-2013-detailed-updates/
March 20, 2013 - Last week I explained that the federal government is operating on a temporary spending bill called a continuing resolution instead of a real budget for fiscal 2013. That continuing...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/14/5-things-know-paul-ryan-budget-senate-budget-and-congressional-progressive-caucus/
March 14, 2013 - Three budget proposals for 2014 arrived in Congress this week – one authored by House Budget Chair Paul Ryan, another by Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray, and one by the Congressional Progr...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/
March 14, 2013 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/12/how-sequestration-will-lead-less-informed-budgeting/
March 13, 2013 - The Census Bureau is yet another agency impacted by the sequester, and result could be delayed release of some key economic data. Cutting this bureau's funds could lead to uninformed budgeting and the...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/12/house-budget-chair-paul-ryan-releases-2014-budget/
March 12, 2013 - Today House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan released his budget resolution for fiscal 2014. The proposal includes many of the same elements as his proposal last year – ...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/11/there-federal-budget-its-even-worse-you-thought/
March 11, 2013 - News about the federal budget is almost impossible to follow, so here’s some straight talk about whether or not there’s a federal budget for 2013 and why things are even worse than they se...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/11/policy-priorities-where-is-american-dream/
March 11, 2013 - Once upon a time, the "American Dream" was thought to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as defined by an adequate-paying job, a house, and equal opportunity for a higher standard of life...
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...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/01/sequestration-and-so-it-begins/
March 4, 2013 - Unable to broker an eleventh-hour deal with congressional Republican leaders, President Obama signed the order activating the automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-second-defense-department/
Feb. 28, 2013 - In an opinion piece for TomDispatch, Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman describe their findings after exploring federal funding for homeland security.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/26/what-sequestration-and-how-will-it-affect-me/
Feb. 26, 2013 - By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. No one thought the cuts would actually take effe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/is-obama-inflating-sequester-impacts/
Feb. 26, 2013 - Across-the-board automatic federal spending cuts, known as a sequester, threaten to take effect Friday. President Barack Obama, who has learned a lesson about one-on-one negotiation with congressional...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/13/sotu-demands-better-budget/
Feb. 13, 2013 - Our nation is operating on a temporary budget and a temporary debt-ceiling suspension with indiscriminate budget cuts threatening critical investments ranging from education to food safety. The State ...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/11/fiscal-cliff-ii-its-baaaaaaack/
Feb. 11, 2013 - Actually, the fiscal cliff never left. If you thought we solved the fiscal cliff with the deal back in January (or even the more recent debt ceiling deal), you’re mistaken.
