Federal Budget Analysis: Debt & Deficit
Tax Day 2019
April 11, 2019
Tax Day is April 15, 2019. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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Tax Day 2018
March 22, 2018
Tax Day is April 17, 2017. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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Competing Visions 2016
March 21, 2016
National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up to Americans’ priorities.
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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.
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- 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.
Competing Visions: Election Edition
Oct. 29, 2014
NPP revisits its Competing Visions analysis that shows how lawmakers would break down the federal budget.