Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - The killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces prompted a great many questions about the continued U.S. war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” si...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/20/budget-group-identifies-least-1-trillion-common-ground-deficit-reduction-measures/
May 20, 2011 - ...Federal Budget (CRFB) has identified between $1.1 trillion and $2.6 trillion in possible deficit reduction measures that are common to most or all of four of the major deficit reduction proposals circ...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/17/human-needs-groups-help-constituents-tell-their-stories/
May 17, 2011 - Half in Ten, the campaign to cut poverty in half in ten years, in partnership with the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN), which heads up the "SAVE for All" coalition, have launched the "Stories" website....
Blog - /blog/2011/05/12/house-spending-levels-cut-everyoneexcept-defense/
May 12, 2011 - ...Budget Resolution which was introduced by House Budget Committee ...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/09/biden-group-senate-get-serious-about-budget/
May 9, 2011 - ...federal budget, while Vice President Joseph Biden holds a second high-level meeting with leading congressional figures on the budget.Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) is likely to re...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/04/out-latest-webinar-hitting-debt-ceiling/
May 4, 2011 - Our latest webinar Hitting the Debt Ceiling is a 45-minute presentation (with Q&A) that will introduce people to the current debate in Washington related to raising the legal limit on the U.S. nat...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/25/fy2012-defining-debt/
April 25, 2011 - ...Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In addition to its new analysis, NPP provides a set of tools which summarize the outcome of the FY2011 federal budge...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/defining-fy2012-budget-debate/
April 20, 2011 - ...Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path for Prosperity” and the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “People’s Budget” are more than competing budget ...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/14/continuing-resolutions-7-and-8-finale/
April 14, 2011 - ...budget in the ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2011-budget-agreement/
April 13, 2011 - ...federal government for the last six months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, which ends on September 30, 2011. The agreement is actually two bills – a seven day Continuing Resolution to allow time for t...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/11/congress-president-agree-fy2011-spending-plan/
April 11, 2011 - Late Friday night, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a spending bill that will fund the last six months of Fiscal Year 2011, which ends on Septem...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/08/blossoms-no-budget/
April 8, 2011 - It’s Cherry Blossom season in Washington, D.C. Each year at this time hundreds of thousands of people from across the country and around the world flock to our nation’s Capitol to stroll along the ban...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/07/despite-deep-spending-cuts-gop-plan-achieves-little-deficit-reduction-2012/
April 7, 2011 - ...budget proposal released by Rep. Paul Ryan’s this week includes a slew of cuts to “non-security” discretionary programs in 2012. The deepest cuts are illustrated below. Rep. Ryan pro...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-chairmans-plan/
April 6, 2011 - ...budget proposal for FY2012, with projections through FY2021. The plan cuts $6.2 trillion in spending over the next decade from the budget projections released with President Obama's proposed budget fo...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/01/potential-rollbacks-government-transparenc/
April 1, 2011 - ...budget from $34 million to $2 million, effectively shutting down sites like Data.gov and USASpending.gov. National Priorities Project would like to put that $32 million savings in context.
Blog - /blog/2011/03/30/good-things-afoot-npps-data/
March 31, 2011 - ...budget experts to supplement our datasets and other online resources. As NPP's new database manager, I'd like to add some technical commentary to the mix. There’s a few exciting projects in the works—...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/28/updated-data-federal-tax-collection/
March 28, 2011 - ...Federal Priorities dataset: Federal Tax Collection: updated through 2011
Blog - /blog/2011/03/25/taking-budget-sunset-committee/
March 25, 2011 - On March 16, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) proposed an amendment to a bill reauthorizing two award programs offered by the Small Business Administration. It has not gotten much press, but it proposes ser...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/taxday-2011/revenues-and-borrowing-faq/
March 22, 2011 - ...Federal Funds, Trust Funds, debt, deficits and more.
Blog - /blog/2011/03/18/continuing-resolution-number-6-end2/
March 18, 2011 - ...budget. The FY 2011 year ends September 30, 2011 and Republican leaders are under pressure to meet the $100 billion-cut-goal set by the House Appropriations Committee. As this ...
