Blog - /blog/2016/07/26/will-congress-use-budget-pass-these-damaging-campaign-finance-rules/
- As if Citizens United weren’t enough, members of Congress are using the federal budget process to open the doors to more money in politics.
Blog - /blog/2016/07/18/3-reasons-run-other-way-ryan-tax-plan/
- The Ryan tax plan would benefit the top 1% and severely hurt the poor. Here's what else it would do.
Blog - /blog/2016/06/28/senate-vote-promesa-way-help-puerto-rico/
- Puerto Rico is in crisis. What should the U.S. federal government do about it?
Blog - /blog/2016/04/07/corporate-tax-dodgers-defeated-pfizer-cancels-merger-after-administration-acts/
- The Pfizer merger with Allergan would have been the biggest corporate inversion ever.
Blog - /blog/2016/03/24/balanced-budget-amendment-three-reasons-its-colossally-bad-idea/
- A balanced budget amendment was, is, and will remain a really, really bad idea.
Blog - /blog/2015/06/15/how-data-act-implementation-opening-federal-spending/
- In May 2014, President Obama signed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) into law. Once implemented, the DATA Act will make it easier to understand how the federal government spe...
Blog - /blog/2015/03/25/webinar-2016-budget-proposals-vs-americans-priorities/
- Sign up for a free webinar to look at how recent budget proposals stack up against Americans' priorities.
Blog - /blog/2015/03/03/how-will-congress-avoid-homeland-security-shutdown-part-2/
- A Homeland Security shutdown was averted this past Friday, but only temporarily, when lawmakers gave Homeland Security one more week of funding.
Blog - /blog/2015/01/08/congress-takes-keystone-xl-pipeline-obamacare-tax-reform/
- Congress tackles the Keystone XL Pipeline, Obamacare, and makes a move toward tax reform in its first week back, with a side of business as usual.
Blog - /blog/2014/12/19/12-days-budget-policy-riders-what-congress-gave-away-cromnibus/
- Twelve of the more bizarre or outrageous early Christmas gifts to special groups that lawmakers delivered through policy riders in the 2015 federal budget bill known as the Cromnibus.
Blog - /blog/2014/02/25/secretary-hagels-cuts-dont-translate-less-spending/
- Yesterday Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a major speech at the Pentagon, and a bold headline ran in The New York Times announcing that the Pentagon would shrink the Army to pre-W...
Blog - /blog/2014/02/13/congress-passes-clean-debt-ceiling-bill/
- The battle to pass a debt ceiling suspension bill is finally over. Earlier this week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives passed a suspension of the debt ceiling until March 15, 2015. ...
Blog - /blog/2014/01/31/farm-bill-passes-house-makes-cuts-food-stamps/
- House lawmakers passed a five-year farm bill this week that would cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by $800 million per year, which amounts to a 1 percent cut to ...
Blog - /blog/2014/01/14/who-won-and-lost-2014-budget/
- Lawmakers have introduced a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will finally complete the budgeting process for the federal government's fiscal year 2014.
Blog - /blog/2013/12/06/national-action-plan-spending-transparency-gaps/
- The Open Government National Action Plan 2.0 is a good starting point for addressing the gaps in federal spending transparency, but much work remains.
Blog - /blog/2025/11/18/7-progressive-policy-wins-human-needs-over-militarism/
Nov. 18, 2025 - This Election Day, progressive ideas swept the polls this month on Election Day. Across multiple elections at the state and local government levels, voters chose pro-people and planet agendas over mil...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/what-do-trumps-national-guard-deployments-cost/
Nov. 12, 2025 - Our latest estimate shows sending the National Guard to U.S. cities has cost taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars through mid-November.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/fact-sheet-taxpayer-trade-offs-dc-occupation-vs-public-housing/
Aug. 21, 2025 - ...housing them. And that’s true across the country.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/08/21/trumps-invasion-of-d-c-costs-over-1-million-a-day-/
Aug. 21, 2025 - ...housing them. And that’s true across the country.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/06/12/trumps-pentagon-parade-will-cost-lives-livelihood/
June 12, 2025 - President Donald Trump wants to spend tens of millions on a military parade that happens to be on his birthday. At the same time, he's pushing cuts to food stamps, Medicaid, child labor enforcement, a...
