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President's 2015 Budget in Pictures
March 19, 2014
President Obama recently released his 2015 budget proposal. And budgets are about priorities: What we’re going to spend money on, and how we’re going to raise the money that we’re spending. These pictures tell the story of the priorities in the president’s budget.
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- All Revenue and Spending: Where the Money Comes From and Where the Money Goes
- Annual Budget Deficit or Surplus as a Share of the Economy
- Total Tax Revenue
- Individual and Corporate Income Taxes as Percent of Total Federal Revenue
- Federal Spending and Revenue as a Share of GDP
- MIlitary and Non-Military Discretionary Spending
- Total Spending
- Mandatory Spending
- Mandatory and Discretionary Spending and Interest on Federal Debt
- Discretionary Spending
President Obama Proposes 2015 Budget
March 4, 2014
New budget includes $56 billion in additional spending, relieving sequestration for fiscal 2015.
Sequestration’s Impact on Military Spending, 2013 – 2014
March 4, 2014
Across-the-board budget cuts have had a much smaller impact on military spending than news reports suggest.
History of the U.S. Federal Budget, 2011 – 2013
Feb. 12, 2014
Recently the nation has endured one Congress-made, budget-related crisis after another. National Priorities Project documents the twists and turns.
Summary of 2014 Discretionary Spending Levels
Jan. 28, 2014
Earlier this month, congressional lawmakers enacted an omnibus spending bill that would fund the federal government for fiscal year 2014. Here's how the omnibus compares to 2013 spending levels.
FAQ: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013
Dec. 11, 2013
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray and her House counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan came to a deal on the federal budget. See exactly what the deal contains.
Will the National Action Plan Tackle Spending Transparency Gaps?
Dec. 9, 2013
Version 2.0 of the White House's Open Government National Action Plan commits to shining more sunlight on how the federal government spends our money. We applaud this focus, but a good deal of work remains to reverse the recent decline of federal spending transparency.
Americans' Blueprint for a Budget Resolution
Nov. 21, 2013
Lawmakers are failing the basic task of managing our nation’s finances. Yet if they listened to the American people, they would pass a smart long-term budget plan by taking these actions on key issues.
Corporate Tax Reform
Nov. 5, 2013
All Americans benefit from public goods like clean air and water, infrastructure, education and other federal programs. These goods are not free, though. They require revenue, provided by taxes. Loopholes in the tax code let big corporations avoid taxes, making it harder to provide public structures on which Americans rely.
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A Multi-Issue Prevention Model for Benefiting Society While Reducing Government Spending
Oct. 31, 2013
In a collaboration with the Prevention Project, National Priorities Project explores investment in prevention strategies -- from health care to criminal justice to national defense -- in order to achieve better outcomes for society while saving taxpayer dollars.