Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/
April 9, 2025 - In February 2025, the average price for a dozen eggs was $5.90. Below, find out how much you might have paid for weapons and war, mass deportations, and programs that are on the Trump-Musk choppi...
Blog - /blog/2025/03/17/congress-boosts-war-machine-and-executive-power-while-cutting-services-working-people/
March 18, 2025 - While the continuing resolution is a step in the wrong direction, we must stay focused on an even bigger fight ahead: budget reconciliation.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/trump-gop-stack-deck-against-struggling-americans-build-war-and-mass-deportation/
March 4, 2025 - The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-reach-historic-levels-militarized-spending-expense-human-need/
Feb. 12, 2025 - ...federal spending on social services while increasing the budget by at least $346 billion over the next four years ($86.5 billion annually) to fund the Pentagon and a disastrous and cruel mass deportat...
Analysis - /analysis/2024/weapons-warming-world-us-contributions-green-climate-fund-vs-foreign-military-fi/
Nov. 22, 2024 - To avoid the most destabilizing effects of a warming planet at home and abroad, the U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities and commit to providing a fair share of global climate adaptati...
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/
April 3, 2024 - It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how many know where their tax dollars really go?
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/tax-day-2024-notes-and-sources/
March 26, 2024 - National Priorities Project's Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/29/Pentagon-Just-Cant-Pass-an-Audit/
Nov. 29, 2023 - Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - ...funds instead benefited people and communities.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/npp-ips-joins-calls-ceasefire-israel-and-occupied-palestine/
Oct. 19, 2023 - “A ceasefire is the only way to stop innocent suffering,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/national-priorities-project-among-27-organizations-urging-emissions-transparency/
Aug. 14, 2023 - The National Priorities Project joins other organizations in a letter addressed to Congress leaders demanding the removal of anti-climate provisions in the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2024.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/13/debt-ceiling-reinforced-double-standard-military/
June 13, 2023 - There’s no price too high for the Pentagon, even while Washington claims the wealthiest country in the world apparently can’t afford to make sure all of its people have basic access to foo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/06/surprise-congress-hide-defense-spending-ukraine/
June 6, 2023 - Lawmakers are planning to dodge caps on the Pentagon budget by adding billions for the military in ‘emergency’ legislation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/warfare-state-compromises-ourwelfare/
June 2, 2023 - Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our We...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/lockheed-ceo-hails-pentagon-budget-boost-debt-deal/
June 2, 2023 - The head of the major U.S. military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point."
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - ...federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just 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 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
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/2023/04/19/ordinary-americans-subsidize-military-industrial/
April 19, 2023 - This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/18/where-does-my-tax-money-go-calculator-what-happens/
April 18, 2023 - Maybe you can’t get out of paying the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
