Blog - /blog/2013/12/13/nuclear-famine-two-billion-people-risk/
Dec. 13, 2013 - One of the most indefensible components of the federal budget is the continuing expenditure of tens of billions of dollars a year to maintain and upgrade nuclear weapons.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/12/13/Karzai_Expected_to_Sign_Afghan_Security/
Dec. 13, 2013 - The U.S. expects to conclude a bilateral security agreement with Afghanistan and overcome Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s refusal so far to sign the pact, according to an Obama administration of...
Blog - /blog/2013/12/11/budget-deal-do-we-have-budget-yet-and-then-what/
Dec. 11, 2013 - The deal's been done, but the U.S. is still a few steps away from having a budget. What's next?
Analysis - /analysis/2013/bipartisan-budget-act-2013/
Dec. 11, 2013 - Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray and her House counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan came to a deal on the federal budget. See exactly what the deal contains.
Blog - /blog/2013/12/11/who-won-and-lost-todays-budget-deal/
Dec. 11, 2013 - Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray, and her House counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan, yesterday reached a deal determining federal spending for the next two years. But who won and who lost?
Blog - /blog/2013/12/08/7-reasons-sign-our-petition-right-now/
Dec. 10, 2013 - There's just four days left before Congress sails past their self-imposed budget deadline -- again. Here are our top seven reasons why you should take 5 minutes right now to stop them.
Blog - /blog/2013/12/04/budget-deadline-nears-how-will-lawmakers-tackle-sequestration-and-2014-budget/
Dec. 4, 2013 - Remember the outrageous 16-day government shutdown? Congress ended it by establishing deadlines for passing a budget, and the first of those deadlines is fast approaching.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/11/27/budget-to-be-thankful-for/
Nov. 27, 2013 - This Thanksgiving, Congress should set aside dysfunction and the austerity mindset and give the American people a reason to be thankful: a federal spending and revenue plan that takes our best interes...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/americans-blueprint-budget-resolution/
Nov. 21, 2013 - Lawmakers are failing the basic task of managing our nation’s finances. Yet if they listened to the American people, they would pass a smart long-term budget plan by taking these actions on key ...
Blog - /blog/2013/11/14/budget-committee-stuck-give-them-push/
Nov. 14, 2013 - News reports this morning indicate that the congressional budget conference committee is making little progress in negotiations toward a compromise spending plan for 2014. Let's give them a nudge in t...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/multi-issue-prevention-model-benefiting-society-while-reducing-government-spendi/
Oct. 31, 2013 - In a collaboration with the Prevention Project, National Priorities Project explores investment in prevention strategies -- from health care to criminal justice to national defense -- in order to achi...
Video - /videos/2013/10/24/npp-democracy-champions/
Oct. 24, 2013 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue, Transparency & Data
Blog - /blog/2013/10/18/lawmakers-called-cancer-treatment-children-nonessential/
Oct. 18, 2013 - The government shutdown allowed us to glimpse our lawmakers' values, and what we saw was ugly.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/10/15/debt-ceiling-2013-mcconnell-hits-brakes/
Oct. 15, 2013 - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has reportedly temporarily hit the brakes on a bipartisan plan he’s working on with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to avert the first-ever U.S...
Video - /videos/2013/10/7/government-shutdown-national-priorities-projects-jo-comerford-on-wort-radio/
Oct. 7, 2013 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/09/30/need-to-know-government-shutdown/
Sept. 30, 2013 - Political negotiations over the government’s budget in Washington, D.C., are at a standstill, with Republicans in Congress threatening to shut down the government unless President Barack Obama a...
Blog - /blog/2013/09/25/will-government-shut-down/
Sept. 25, 2013 - There are just a few days left before Oct. 1, the start of the federal government’s new fiscal year and the deadline for Congress to pass some sort of a spending bill in order to avoid a governm...
Blog - /blog/2013/09/12/washington-spend-trillions-2014-will-spend-trillions-14-who-knows-what/
Sept. 12, 2013 - Congress failed to make funding decisions for fiscal 2014 on its regular time-frame, and now the debate on Syria has jumped to the front of the line. That means Congress is going to make som...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/09/06/npp-estimates-cost-of-military-action-in-syria/
Sept. 6, 2013 - ...military force in retaliation against Syria’s alleged use of nerve gas on its citizens, the National Priorities Project has calculated such action may cost hundreds of millions or billions of do...
Blog - /blog/2013/09/05/cost-military-intervention-syria/
Sept. 5, 2013 - U.S. forces would use Tomahawk Cruise Missiles to attack Syria. On our brand-new Cost of National Security site, you can see the real-time cost of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile progr...
