Blog - /blog/2019/05/17/united-states-and-saudi-arabia-take-top-two-spots-world-military-spending-person/
- Last week, the Stockholm International Peace Institute released their annual look at world military spending. Once again, the United States is on top. We spent more than one third of the world's total...
Blog - /blog/2019/04/11/your-taxes-provided-48-billion-lockheed-martin-and-some-other-stuff/
- ...housing costs the average taxpayer less than a curling iron from Wal-Mart. The average American paid...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- If Trump pretends that the Pentagon is also subject to strict spending limits, he can argue that his more than $50 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and Legal Aid ar...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/11/trumps-fy2020-budget-request/
- At long last, President Trump released his third presidential budget request today, after a month-long delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/23/end-shutdown-near/
- It’s day 33 of the shutdown. An announcement Wednesday by House Democrats offered yet another possible solution to the ongoing government shutdown battle over the president’s dem...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/12/longest-shutdown-ever/
- Congress has the power to make things right, but it would take a bipartisan stand against the president.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/04/shutdown-day-14/
- If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018/
- As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/
- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.
Blog - /blog/2018/02/09/congress-strikes-deal-54-military-spending-federal-budget/
- The resulting federal discretinary budgets invests 54% of the federal discretionary budget in the miltiary and nuclear weapons.
Blog - /blog/2017/11/17/death-and-taxes-trumps-tax-bill-and-national-defense-authorization-act/
- The priorities in Congress this week are clear: a $700 billion authorization for military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly w...
Blog - /blog/2017/11/03/tax-cuts-rich-and-famous/
- If the Trump tax plan were an object, you can bet it would be gold-plated
Blog - /blog/2017/10/20/senate-steps-closer-tax-cuts-very-rich/
- It's easy to see what comes next: claiming pressure from the deepening debt that they themselves created, members of Congress will want massive cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.
Blog - /blog/2017/07/19/what-are-you-looking-congress-military-spending-grab/
- Proposals for U.S. military spending are starkly different. See how they stack up.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/28/president-trumps-54-billion-pentagon-grab/
- The United States already spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/08/say-no-bannon-national-security-council/
- Trump’s decision to give Bannon a vote on the National Security Council is a dangerous one.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/02/how-justice-scalia-may-save-federal-funding-sanctuary-cities/
- How two Supreme Court decisions hailed by conservatives might spell salvation for sanctuary cities.
Blog - /blog/2017/01/19/trumps-budget-cuts/
- Today the Trump transition team suggested $10.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years.
Blog - /blog/2016/11/23/trump-budget-will-congress-repeal-obamacare-aka-affordable-care-act/
- So what’s standing in the way of repealing the Affordable Care Act?
