National Priorities Project
The United States federal budget is a powerful resource: at $4 trillion, it’s about a fifth of the U.S. economy. What’s more, those resources come from us: a government for and by the people.
There is enormous power in these shared resources. We can harness that power to make our lives better, to create a more just and humane society. On the other hand, that power can be used to perpetuate destructive cycles of war, militarism, violence and oppression that go back to our nation’s founding and before.
Budgets are moral documents. It’s our responsibility as Americans to create a federal budget that upholds our most cherished values.
The National Priorities Project works to inspire and inform movements and individuals so that our federal resources prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic prosperity for all. We are the only nonprofit, non-partisan federal budget research organization in the nation with the mission to make the federal budget accessible to the American public.
We empower people to affect change through the creation of understandable, down to earth trainings, analysis, graphics and reports to illustrate how the federal budget affects us all, from the local level to the international.
Latest Work

Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan

Biden's 2022 Budget Raises Military Spending Past $750 Billion

Peace Groups Urge Support for the PRO Act

To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act

The Pitfalls of a ‘National Security’ Approach to Climate

The National Security State Doesn’t Protect Us. Let’s Redefine Security for All.

Returning to the Paris Agreement Is Just the Beginning

Could Biden's Climate Policy Invite More Militarism?

Will the Space Force Take the Pentagon Budget to Infinity and Beyond?

How Militarized Police and Fossil Fuel Corporations Are Criminalizing Protest

Looming Failure of Stimulus Exposes GOP’s Double Standards on the Deficit

Indigenous Peoples Day and the Years of Repair

Reimagining School Safety

15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, It's Time to Demilitarize Disaster Relief

Austerity Politics Aren’t Going to Cut Out of Control Pentagon Spending

Spending More on the Military Means Lining the Pockets of Top Defense Industry Executives

Military Recruiters Don’t Belong in High Schools

At a Time of a Global Crises, the United States Is Weaponizing Its Humanitarian Aid

Would the U.S. Have COVID Under Control If We Hadn’t Overinvested in the Pentagon?

Americans Want to Reinvest Ten Percent of the Military Budget Against Coronavirus