Blog - /blog/2025/05/13/trillion-dollar-trade-what-if-presidents-budget-prioritized-communities-instead-war-profiteers/
May 13, 2025 - ...of Education, green energy, and so much more. The U.S. already...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/tax-day-2025-notes-and-sources/
April 9, 2025 - ...War and Weapons The Pentagon (Department of Defense), nuclear weapons activities, war costs, and international military aid. Subfunctions: 051, 053, 054, 152 Example programs: Department o...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/
April 9, 2025 - ...war, mass deportations, and programs that are on the Trump-Musk chopping block — and which programs cost less than a dozen eggs.
Blog - /blog/2025/03/17/congress-boosts-war-machine-and-executive-power-while-cutting-services-working-people/
March 18, 2025 - While the continuing resolution is a step in the wrong direction, we must stay focused on an even bigger fight ahead: budget reconciliation.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/trump-gop-stack-deck-against-struggling-americans-build-war-and-mass-deportation/
March 4, 2025 - ...of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-reach-historic-levels-militarized-spending-expense-human-need/
Feb. 12, 2025 - ...of working people.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-would-increase-spending-pentagon-and-deportations-expense-sol/
Feb. 11, 2025 - ...of giving more to weapons contractors and demonizing immigrant communities.
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/
April 3, 2024 - It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how many know where their tax dollars really go?
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/tax-day-2024-notes-and-sources/
March 26, 2024 - ...of the taxes withheld from your paycheck.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/30/Sending-Israel-more-aid-is-lose-lose-proposition/
Nov. 30, 2023 - ...of mass destruction we’re seeing in Gaza is unimaginable to most of us in the United States. But we see suffering here too — in the form of homelessness, the opioid epidemic ...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - ...war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into real human needs — healthcare, education, housing, and a jus...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - ...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/2023/05/24/report-trillion-militarized-spending-crushing/
May 24, 2023 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/unwarranted-influence-twenty-first-century-style/
May 8, 2023 - ...warranted influence” it wielded in 1961.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/tax-day-2023-notes-and-sources/
April 17, 2023 - ...warded by the Department of Defense in FY 2022 according to USASpending.gov. Advanced Search: Time Period: FY 2022, Award Type: Contracts, Awarding Agency: Department of Defense; Time graph "Total Obl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/03/13/20-years-dept-homeland-security-is-failure/
March 13, 2023 - ...ward surveillance, racial profiling, and an immigration policy based on fear.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/01/26/research-details-promise-converting-war-economy/
Jan. 26, 2023 - ...Costs of War project.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/12/01/pentagon-fails-audit-congress-poised-847-billion/
Dec. 1, 2022 - "This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely," said the National Priorities Project. "It's robbing programs that we need, like the discontinued child tax credit that cut child poverty by half."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/11/30/lawmakers-propose-record-847b-defense-budget/
Nov. 30, 2022 - ...war and progressive advocates have strongly condemned the proposed budget, calling it a “slap in the face.”
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...
