Blog - /blog/2019/06/17/poor-peoples-moral-budget-everybody-has-right-live/
- For the 140 million people who are poor, or one emergency away from being poor, we know it's necessary to present a comprehensive response to the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation,...
Blog - /blog/2019/05/24/people-over-pentagon-slash-200-billion-military-budget/
- ...military funds enough to free $2 trillion or more over the next decade for big, bold, urgent people-first priorities.
Blog - /blog/2019/05/17/united-states-and-saudi-arabia-take-top-two-spots-world-military-spending-person/
- ...military spending. Once again, the United States is on top. We spent more than one third of the world's total, two and a half times as much as the second coutnry on the list (China), and more than the...
Blog - /blog/2019/04/11/your-taxes-provided-48-billion-lockheed-martin-and-some-other-stuff/
- ...military contractors cost the average taxpayer more than the price of a new Macbook Pro, but public housing costs the average taxpayer less than a curling iron from Wal-Mart. The average American paid...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/25/trump-budget-trade-offs-2020/
- ...military budget is so huge that the Trump budget's proposed increases for FY 2020 can seem like a drop in the bucket. But let's compare the value of some of Trump's most extra priorities to thing...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/19/trumps-174-billion-budget-lie/
- If Trump pretends that the Pentagon is also subject to strict spending limits, he can argue that his more than $50 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency and Legal Aid ar...
Blog - /blog/2019/03/11/trumps-fy2020-budget-request/
- At long last, President Trump released his third presidential budget request today, after a month-long delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.
Blog - /blog/2019/02/21/how-much-could-we-buy-70-top-marginal-tax-rate/
- How much could our federal government pay for if the top marginal tax rate was raised to 70 percent?
Blog - /blog/2019/02/14/tell-congress-use-their-power-no-national-emergency-border/
- The president will declare a national emergency in order to commandeer federal funds to build his wall, according to reports today.
Blog - /blog/2019/02/11/deja-vu-four-days-until-shutdown/
- It's deja vu all over again.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/25/border-solution-must-not-include-wall/
- It’s time to end this shutdown once and for all, and it’s time to end the fiction that Americans want or need a wall at our border.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/23/end-shutdown-near/
- It’s day 33 of the shutdown. An announcement Wednesday by House Democrats offered yet another possible solution to the ongoing government shutdown battle over the president’s dem...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/12/longest-shutdown-ever/
- Congress has the power to make things right, but it would take a bipartisan stand against the president.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- While the Trump administration fixates on a militarized non-solution to the non-crisis at the border, the real crisis is staring us in the face: accelerating climate change. And demilitarizing the U.S...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/04/shutdown-day-14/
- If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018/
- As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/10/trump-wants-750-billion-military-nearing-record-spending/
- ...military spending from its current $716 billion to a cool $750 billion.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/07/nine-things-buy-5-billion-instead-border-wall/
- President Trump has said that he will veto any bill that doesn’t give him the $5 billion he has demanded for his border wall.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/04/trump-spending-210-million-soldiers-tear-gas-children-border/
- ...military troops at the U.S./Mexico border keeps escalating—unarmed refugees are being tear gassed, and direct costs of the situation are expected to reach $210 million through December.
