Federal Budget Analysis: Budget Process
BUDGET EXPLAINER: Senate Republicans Reach for Historic Levels of Militarized Spending at the Expense of Human Needs
Feb. 12, 2025
Senate Republicans are aiming to cut federal spending on social services while increasing the budget by at least $346 billion over the next four years ($86.5 billion annually) to fund the Pentagon and a disastrous and cruel mass deportation plan. Policymakers must step up to help struggling families, not tear families apart while enriching corporations and billionaires at the expense of working people.
Tax Day 2024
April 3, 2024
It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how many know where their tax dollars really go?
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FACT SHEET: Invest in Communities, Not Violence
Nov. 9, 2023
For far too long, the U.S. has clung to a budget that prioritizes war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into real human needs — healthcare, education, housing, and a just energy transition to name a few. Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities.
Tax Day 2023
April 17, 2023
Tax Day this year is April 18, 2023. Americans will file their tax returns for all income received in 2022. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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FY 2023 Budget Deal Rewards Military at Expense of Domestic Needs
Dec. 20, 2022
“This budget deal is shameful. It perpetuates the status quo, where domestic priorities never get equal footing with military spending. It’s unconscionable to keep throwing more money at Pentagon contractors when so many in this country are struggling needlessly,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Tax Day 2022
April 15, 2022
Tax Day this year is April 18, 2022. Americans will file their tax returns for all income received in 2021. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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Biden FY 2023 budget puts war before human needs
March 28, 2022
President Biden’s FY 2023 budget request once again prioritizes violence, the military and war over peace and human needs. But more spending on militarism can’t address the nation’s or the world’s problems.
Budget Deal Prioritizes War and Militarization Over Critical Needs, Again
March 9, 2022
The budget deal announced today repeats a longtime pattern by putting more resources into the military and war than into K-12 education, affordable housing, public health, scientific and medical research, early childhood education and care, and homelessness combined.
State of Insecurity: The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
Sept. 1, 2021
Over 20 years, the U.S. has spent more than $21 trillion on militarization, surveillance, and repression — all in the name of security. These investments have shown us that the U.S. has the capacity and political will to invest in our biggest priorities.
President Biden's FY 2022 Budget Request
June 11, 2021
The president's request calls for $753 billion for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons, plus another $12 billion in foreign military aid.