Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/06/11/we-have-a-choice-weapons-and-war-or-food-and-healt/
June 11, 2025 - President Trump’s “big brutal bill” slashes SNAP and Medicaid to enrich private prison and military contractor CEOs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/05/22/reconciliation-bill-trades-life-for-death-new/
May 22, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every state in the nation would be devastated by the health care and nutrition cuts imposed by the Republican reconciliation bill that just passed the House of Repre...
Blog - /blog/2025/05/13/trillion-dollar-trade-what-if-presidents-budget-prioritized-communities-instead-war-profiteers/
May 13, 2025 - President Trump is requesting a record-high $1.01 trillion “defense” budget for FY 2026 while gutting federal agencies and social services that actually keep the country safe – thing...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/tax-day-2025-notes-and-sources/
April 9, 2025 - ...Housing & Community Department of Housing and Urban Development: Includes outlays under Housing & Community subfunctions for the Agency “Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/03/12/pentagon-contractors-dont-save-lives-or-money-medi/
March 12, 2025 - Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
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 - Senate Republicans are aiming to cut 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...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-would-increase-spending-pentagon-and-deportations-expense-sol/
Feb. 11, 2025 - We have the means to solve homelessness, poverty, substance use, and more – but it will require spending priorities that line up with those needs instead of giving more to weapons contractors an...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2024/07/16/military-budget-contracts-ukraine-gaza/
July 16, 2024 - Congress is spending on the military like it’s World War III. Diverting that money to jobs, healthcare, and the climate would make us far safer.
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/2024/01/11/Budget-Ensures-Bombs-Will-Keep-Dropping/
Jan. 11, 2024 - All of that military funding comes at the direct cost of funding social programs and climate programs.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/30/Sending-Israel-more-aid-is-lose-lose-proposition/
Nov. 30, 2023 - The kind of mass destruction we’re seeing in Gaza is unimaginable to most of us in the United States. But we see suffering here too — in the form of homelessness, the opioid epid...
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 - ...housing, and a just energy transition to name a few. Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/more-military-aid-israel-will-mean-more-deaths/
Oct. 20, 2023 - In the face of massive suffering in Gaza and disregard for international law by the Israeli government, the U.S. must not provide additional military aid or weapons that would cause more deaths. Inste...
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/2023/07/12/dwight-was-right-say-no-to-military-contractors/
July 12, 2023 - The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
