Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/03/progressive-say-submitting-gop-ransom-debt-celing/
June 3, 2023 - "Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/lockheed-ceo-hails-pentagon-budget-boost-debt-deal/
June 2, 2023 - ...ustry or our company could ask for at this point."
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - ...ust 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 - ...spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over the past two decades."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/unwarranted-influence-twenty-first-century-style/
May 8, 2023 - The MIC is consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when President Eisenhower first raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in 19...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/imagine-another-bernie-sanders-challenges-biden/
May 8, 2023 - ...spending, either. In March, he proposed lavishing more on defense, adjusted for inflation, than the United States did at the height of the last Cold War.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/
April 26, 2023 - ...spending and expand the police — and Republican proposals are worse.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/19/ordinary-americans-subsidize-military-industrial/
April 19, 2023 - ...ust for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/tax-day-2023-notes-and-sources/
April 17, 2023 - ...using A sum of outlays under Housing & Community subfunctions for the Accounts, "Public Housing Fund" and Public Housing Capital Fund." Homeless assistance Includes outlays under Housing & ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/12/22/2023-military-budget-hike-3200-times-nlrb-increase/
Dec. 22, 2022 - ...us pause: extravagant spending for the war machine, scraps for workers.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/12/01/pentagon-fails-audit-congress-poised-847-billion/
Dec. 1, 2022 - ...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 - Antiwar and progressive advocates have strongly condemned the proposed budget, calling it a “slap in the face.”
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/08/17/climate-bill-activists-demand-biden-kill-oil-deal/
Aug. 17, 2022 - President Joe Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law. But activists aren’t taking this time to rest; after all, the bill contains “poison pills” to expand f...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/06/24/lindsay-koshgarian-people-over-pentagon/
June 24, 2022 - We talk about the People Over Pentagon Act of 2022 with Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/06/14/only-in-top-gun-can-military-solve-all-problems/
June 14, 2022 - ...us less safe.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/06/13/people-over-pentagon-proposal-would-take-100-billi/
June 13, 2022 - "The Lee-Pocan bill disproves the claim that there's not money to feed the hungry, care for the sick, cut child poverty, or protect the planet," said one proponent.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/06/07/defense-contractors-tax-dollars-profit-ukraine/
June 7, 2022 - ...defense contractors. But it is in a real war, such as in Ukraine, that such profiteering truly thrives.
Analysis - /analysis/2022/tax-day-2022/tax-day-2022-notes-and-sources/
April 15, 2022 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. These are one type of taxes withheld from your paycheck, and they pay for a vast array of government programs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/04/06/biden-new-pentagon-budget-prioritizes-war/
April 6, 2022 - ...us
Article - /pressroom/articles/2022/03/31/how-biden-budget-prioritizes-war-over-people-needs/
March 31, 2022 - ...spending.
