Blog - /blog/2013/05/29/introducing-tax-expenditures/
May 29, 2013 - The special tax break for investment income – also known as capital gains and dividends – will let taxpayers off the hook for more than $61 billion in taxes this year. Most of th...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/05/21/how-america-became-a-third-world-country/
May 21, 2013 - It’s 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. They went on for a decade, making no excep...
Blog - /blog/2013/05/15/extra-cash-pushes-debt-ceiling-deadline-september/
May 15, 2013 - A better-than-expected cash flow at the U.S. Treasury has turned May 18 into just any old day.
Blog - /blog/2013/05/09/open-data-executive-order-shows-path-forward/
May 9, 2013 - Today, the White House is issuing a new Executive Order on Open Data -- one that is significantly different from the open data policies that have come before it -- reflecting Sunlight's...
Blog - /blog/2013/05/07/pathway-better-federal-budget/
May 7, 2013 - Join me, if you will, in envisioning a pathway to a nation where the federal budget reflects the priorities of the American people.
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...
