Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/04/29/im-sequestration-fly-me/
April 29, 2013 - Just as we’re bemoaning our narcoleptic Congress (see our latest, “Do-Nothing Congress Gives Inertia a Bad Name”), the august body suddenly awakes and springs into action as if ...
Blog - /blog/2013/04/15/top-five-things-know-about-pentagons-budget-request/
April 17, 2013 - Last week the Obama Administration released its long-overdue budget request for fiscal year 2014. As part of the request, the administration is seeking $526.6 billion for the Pentagon. This amount doe...
Blog - /blog/2013/04/10/president-obamas-2014-budget-top-5-things-know/
April 10, 2013 - Today President Obama released his fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which set a record for arriving two months after the legal deadline of the first Monday in February. Here are the top five things to kno...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2014-budget/
April 10, 2013 - Overview and details of President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, including proposed reductions in Social Security benefits.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/27/see-where-your-taxes-went/
March 27, 2013 - Taxes are due on April 15 – right around the corner – though few Americans know where their taxes actually go. So NPP is launching Tax Day 2013 – a suite of mater...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/22/a-post-iraq-security-consensus/
March 22, 2013 - On the tenth anniversary of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, we may be witnessing a seismic shift in America's politics of national security. After decades of using hawkish positions for partisan ad...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/14/5-things-know-paul-ryan-budget-senate-budget-and-congressional-progressive-caucus/
March 14, 2013 - Three budget proposals for 2014 arrived in Congress this week – one authored by House Budget Chair Paul Ryan, another by Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray, and one by the Congressional Progr...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/
March 14, 2013 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/11/there-federal-budget-its-even-worse-you-thought/
March 11, 2013 - News about the federal budget is almost impossible to follow, so here’s some straight talk about whether or not there’s a federal budget for 2013 and why things are even worse than they se...
Video - /videos/2013/3/6/mattea-kramer-on-up-w-chris-hayes/
March 6, 2013 - ...Deficit, Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Video - /videos/2013/3/6/mattea-kramer-on-up-w-chris-hayes-3313/
March 6, 2013 - ...Deficit, Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/03/the-lefts-austerity-strategy/
March 3, 2013 - NPP's research director Mattea Kramer appeared on Up with Chris Hayes on Sunday, March 3, to talk about growing support for cuts to military spending.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/26/what-sequestration-and-how-will-it-affect-me/
Feb. 26, 2013 - By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. No one thought the cuts would actually take effe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/is-obama-inflating-sequester-impacts/
Feb. 26, 2013 - Across-the-board automatic federal spending cuts, known as a sequester, threaten to take effect Friday. President Barack Obama, who has learned a lesson about one-on-one negotiation with congressional...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/24/sequestrations-havoc/
Feb. 25, 2013 - ...deficit reduction paradigm. It failed as a disciplinary measure. Many will implicate the prevailing austerity rhetoric as part of the problem believing it unwise to cut federal investment in the midst...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/sequestration-pentagon-and-states/
Feb. 21, 2013 - Sequestration, the Pentagon, and the States offers selected state-level briefs focused on the local impact of looming automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration and histor...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/20/how-will-sequester-affect-you/
Feb. 20, 2013 - Another manufactured budget crisis is facing Washington, but this time around it looks as if there will be no last-minute showdown.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/06/presidents-state-union-address/
Feb. 6, 2013 - Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union."While the date is not specified by the Constit...
Video - /videos/2013/2/4/state-of-the-union-preview/
Feb. 4, 2013 - ...Deficit, Education, Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
