National Priorities Project

It’s not enough to say no to war. We urgently need our government to invest in real human needs for all, instead of further militarizing our planet.

This deal is a sign that there is still a long way to go before our funding priorities match our needs.

The spending priorities Biden listed in his State of the Union speech don’t match reality. It’s time to invest in the people of this country.

The America COMPETES bill is part of a dangerous trend of feeding tensions between the U.S. and China.

While the U.S. sends quick weapons shipments and maneuvers troops, other urgent problems go unsolved.

Changing our budget priorities is key to repairing these harms.

We will pay for climate change one way or the another. We can invest in a reparative, life-affirming future now, or we can pay the growing costs of inaction.

On MLK Day this year, it’s worth remembering not just King’s sharp diagnosis of American society’s ills, but also his prescription for transformative social change.

Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise.

Congress just passed a $778 billion military budget, and failed to pass the Build Back Better plan that costs less than a quarter of that annually.

The end of the war in Afghanistan resulted not in a budget decrease, but more increases. Then Congress cut Build Back Better in half.

Build Back Better and the National Defense Authorization Act represent diametrically opposed views of how to address the challenges of our time: a moral budget vs a war budget. Congress: Which side are you on?

“Stop lavishing money on the Pentagon while skimping on everything else,” said National Priorities Project director Lindsay Koshgarian.

Democrats are slashing the Build Back Better bill from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion over ten years. Meanwhile, Pentagon contractors have received $3.4 trillion over the past decade.

The president’s $3.5 trillion human-needs plan is facing severe cuts from key members of Congress. So why does the military get $7.5 trillion, no questions asked?

For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.

The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11

Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House.

The U.S. needs to focus on bringing as many Afghans as possible to safety as refugees.

The increase would have come on top of the more than $750 billion the budget resolution already reserved for the Pentagon.