Blog - /blog/2013/09/05/last-week-recess-now-about-budget-and-debt-ceiling/
Sept. 5, 2013 - Congress returns to Washington next week, and they have a lot of work to get done. Use our fact sheets to brush up on the issues.
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!
Blog - /blog/2013/08/12/whats-happening-with-federal-budget-debt-ceiling/
Aug. 12, 2013 - You've heard whispers. Perhaps here and there in the news there's been mention, yet again, of the potential for a government shutdown. So here's the update you need – in handy cheat-sheet f...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/military-spending-fact-sheet/
Aug. 1, 2013 - ...military spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/federal-spending-fact-sheet/
Aug. 1, 2013 - The key facts on federal spending and the off-the-rails budget process.
Blog - /blog/2013/07/29/august-recess-time-home-district-meetings-lawmakers/
July 29, 2013 - What's happening in Congress right now could alter this nation for years to come. NPP's new, easy-to-use fact sheets will help you understand contentious issues like taxes and Obamacare so you can dec...
Blog - /blog/2013/07/18/food-stamp-cuts-would-pull-benefits-5000-military-families/
July 18, 2013 - When lawmakers in the House passed an agriculture bill last week that effectively eliminated funding for the food stamp program, they were pulling nutrition assistance from millions of at-risk familie...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/
July 18, 2013 - ...military, health care, and Social Security, as well as tax reform and overall federal spending and the budget process.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/07/04/how-could-we-blow-this/
July 4, 2013 - On security issues, we Americans need a rebalancing.
Blog - /blog/2013/06/24/hot-summer-budget-battle-2-2014-budget/
June 24, 2013 - ...military funding next year.
Blog - /blog/2013/05/28/cost-war-will-tackle-new-terrain/
May 28, 2013 - For more than a decade National Priorities Project's Cost of War site has been keeping track of real-time federal spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now the Cost of War site i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/05/21/how-america-became-a-third-world-country/
May 21, 2013 - It’s 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. They went on for a decade, making no excep...
Blog - /blog/2013/05/06/how-much-foreign-aid-does-us-give-away/
May 6, 2013 - Back in October I wrote a blog post here about how much the U.S. spends on diplomacy and foreign aid. "Very little," I wrote back then.
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/2013/04/15/today-tax-day-where-do-my-taxes-go/
April 15, 2013 - After heroic feats of arithmetic and a your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine interpretation of opaque rules and guidelines, millions of Americans will file their taxes by today, April 15. But where does all t...
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/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2014-budget/
April 10, 2013 - Overview and details of President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, including proposed reductions in Social Security benefits.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/fiscal-year-2014-pentagon-budget-analysis/
April 10, 2013 - Overview, highlights, and details of the Pentagon's 2014 budget request.
Video - /videos/2013/4/9/mattea-kramer-on-all-in-w-chris-hayes/
April 9, 2013 - ...Military & Security
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...
