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 2019

April 11, 2019

Tax Day is April 15, 2019. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?

Also Includes:

• Tax Day 2019 Notes and Sources
• Tax Day 2019 Social Media Toolkit
• Where Your Tax Dollar Was Spent in 2018
• Seven Surprising Tax Facts for 2019

Tax Day 2018

March 22, 2018

Tax Day is April 17, 2017. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?

Also Includes:

• Tax Day 2018 Notes and Sources
• Tax Day 2018 Social Media Toolkit
• Seven Surprising Tax Facts for 2018

Competing Visions 2016

March 21, 2016

National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up to Americans’ priorities.

Also Includes:

• Competing Visions 2016 One Pager

The President's 2017 Budget Proposal in Pictures

Feb. 17, 2016

The National Priorities Project breaks down President Obama’s $4.2 trillion budget proposal in a series of pictures.

President Obama Proposes 2017 Budget

Feb. 11, 2016

New proposal calls for investment in domestic priorities but also prioritizes Pentagon spending and military force.  

Competing Visions: President Obama, House Budget Committee, Senate Budget Committee, and Congressional Progressive Caucus Release Budget Proposals for 2016

March 19, 2015

National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.

President’s 2016 Budget in Pictures

Feb. 9, 2015

President Obama recently released his fiscal year 2016 budget proposal. And budgets are about our nation’s priorities: What are we going to spend money on? How are we going to raise the money we want to spend? These pictures tell the story of the priorities found in the president’s budget.

Also Includes:

• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Annual Budget Deficit or Surplus as Share of the Economy (GDP)
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Total Tax Revenue
• President's Proposed '16 Budget: Individual/Corporate Income Taxes as % of Total Federal Revenue
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Federal Spending and Revenue as Share of U.S. Economy (GDP)
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Military and Non-Military Discretionary Spending
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Mandatory and Discretionary Spending and Interest on Debt
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Mandatory Spending
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Discretionary Spending
• President's Proposed 2016 Budget: Total Spending

President Obama Proposes 2016 Budget

Feb. 4, 2015

President Obama's budget proposal includes spending above sequestration caps for defense and non-defense, and many initiatives that would be widely popular with Americans.

National Priorities Project Reacts to President's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget

Feb. 2, 2015

President Obama today released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2016. The $4 trillion spending and tax proposal includes funding that would provide two years of tuition-free community college for students, investments in job training and early education, as well as substantial increases in military spending.