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Twenty candidates were questioned at the first Democratic debate. Here's what they didn't say, but should have.

Report: Poor People's Campaign Moral Budget

Everybody Has the Right to Live

Q+A with Lindsay Koshgarian on the US' Abhorrent Military Budget

The United States is spending $750 billion on its war machine. That money should be going to food, education, health care, and shelter for working people.

For Military Contractors, Tax Day is Pay Day

Lockheed Martin's CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military.

Tax Day 2019: Where Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2018

How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Trump Wants to Give 62 cents of Every Dollar to the Military — That's Immoral


Trump's $174 Billion Budget Lie

Trump tells us we can't afford PBS funding or preserve affordable housing, but his budget doesn't have any trouble finding billions of dollars for the endlessly expanding Pentagon budget.

Trump Budget Ends Medicaid Expansion, Axes Affordable Housing Programs

Trump has signaled his priorities. Now it's up to Congress to intervene on behalf of the people.

Trump’s Militarized Budget Slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and Clean Energy

Trump's federal budget proposal is the largest in history. It includes a massive military budget, funded through cuts to programs that help poor and middle-class Americans.

Trump Budget Would Cut Spending for Nearly Every Agency Except Pentagon

Trump is requesting an unprecedented level of military spending.

Trump's FY2020 Budget Request Bloats Militarized Spending — and Slashes Programs Humans Actually Need

While funding for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons programs soars, investment in the Department of Education and Veteran's Affairs plummet.


If Trump declares a national emergency, he can fund his wall against the wishes of Democrats. Will he?

Trump's $5 Billion Wall Is a Waste

Here's what we could spend it on instead.

Stop Wasting Money on the Pentagon


Will the Government Shut Down Over Trump’s $5 Billion Border Wall?

Congress has been working to pass legislation funding the federal government for months. If they don't reach a deal by midnight Friday, one-quarter of the government will shut down.


Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it’s an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs.

How Skewed Are Our Government’s Economic Priorities?

As Trump threatens not to sign the appropriations bill, the battle over the border wall continues to hold up federal government funding.

Breaking Down the U.S. Military Budget

The U.S. federal budget is a cerebral subject, seemingly reserved for the technocratic elite to calculate, deconstruct, recompose, modify, and amend. But it affects people’s daily lives in profound ways, and not just in America.

Here’s What We Could Have If We Slashed the Military Budget


Trump Tax Plan 2.0 Cements the Worst Economic Policy in a Generation

House Republicans are doubling down on reforms that awarded tax giveaways to corporations and the wealthy.

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National Priorities Project

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