Guide - /guides/tipsheet-pentagon-spending/
June 11, 2015 - ...spending will total $598 billion, accounting for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending – that’s the portion of the federal budget that the president requests and lawmakers deter...
Analysis - /analysis/2015/pentagon-budget-request-fy2016/
June 4, 2015 - On February 2, the Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2016 budget request reflecting input from the Department of Defense. Here's what they asked for.
Blog - /blog/2015/03/04/congress-approves-department-homeland-security-funding/
March 4, 2015 - ...Homeland Security (DHS) for the rest of the fiscal year which ends on September 30.
Blog - /blog/2014/12/30/top-3-new-years-resolutions-congress/
Dec. 30, 2014 - Our top 3 New Years' Resolutions for Congress. Gridlock is so 2014.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/whats-cromnibus-extended-analysis/
Dec. 15, 2014 - On Saturday, the Senate passed a U.S. budget that avoided a government shutdown, set the stage for a February showdown over immigration, relaxed financial investment rules implemented under the Dodd-F...
Blog - /blog/2014/12/11/whats-cromnibus/
Dec. 11, 2014 - Spending caps, immigration, the F-35, military pay raises, Dodd-Frank, campaign contributions and more: here's what's in the budget bill.
Blog - /blog/2014/12/04/congress-has-one-week-make-sure-government-doesnt-shut-down/
Dec. 4, 2014 - Two months into the 2015 fiscal year and just a week away from a government shutdown and Congress has not followed through on one of its most fundamental and important responsibilities: to fund the go...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/competing-visions-election/
Oct. 29, 2014 - NPP revisits its Competing Visions analysis that shows how lawmakers would break down the federal budget.
Blog - /blog/2014/08/14/pick-your-better-border-budget-battle-can-we-reach-deal-border-crisis/
Aug. 14, 2014 - ...security, refugee assistance, and legal representation, echoing the deep divisions about immigration reform overall.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/26/troop-levels-afghanistan/
May 26, 2014 - ...spending.
Blog - /blog/2014/05/22/thats-me-my-head-inside-pentagon-really/
May 22, 2014 - On her last day as executive director of National Priorities Project, Jo Comerford tells a couple of her favorite NPP stories and celebrates NPP's next chapter.
Blog - /blog/2014/01/07/war-poverty-50-years-later/
Jan. 8, 2014 - Today marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, which renewed a commitment to federal funding for programs to help struggling Americans. Here's a list of resources that illustrate how these fe...
Blog - /blog/2013/11/06/big-day-data-act/
Nov. 6, 2013 - We don't have a complete picture of where our tax dollars are going or who gets them. The DATA Act is part of the fix to this problem.
Blog - /blog/2013/09/12/washington-spend-trillions-2014-will-spend-trillions-14-who-knows-what/
Sept. 12, 2013 - ...spending in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Even more last-minute than they had already planned.
Blog - /blog/2013/08/14/npps-numbers-wild-cost-modern-soldier/
Aug. 14, 2013 - Saul Page used NPP's numbers to create an infographic about the cost of the modern soldier. If you use our data in your work, let us know!
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/military-spending-fact-sheet/
Aug. 1, 2013 - ...spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/07/04/how-could-we-blow-this/
July 4, 2013 - ...security issues, we Americans need a rebalancing.
Blog - /blog/2013/05/28/cost-war-will-tackle-new-terrain/
May 28, 2013 - ...spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now the Cost of War site is going to tackle new terrain.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/04/26/the-great-surveillance-boom/
April 26, 2013 - FORTUNE -- Video surveillance is big business. Expect it to get bigger. After law enforcement used closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help identify last week's Boston bombing suspects, lawmak...
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...
