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

The Biden Budget Does Some Good on Poverty and Fairness. It Could Do More if it Cut the Pentagon.

IPS Looks Back on 20 Years of Endless War and Border Militarization

One of the Highest Military Budgets in History

After 20 Years, the Department of Homeland Security Is a Money-Guzzling Failure

A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors

A Quarter of Biden’s Budget Will Go to Pentagon Contractors

Seven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon by $100 Billion

Senators Failed to Add Anti-Immigrant Border Policy to Budget Deal

Pentagon Fails Audit, Asks for More Money (Again)

Defueling Red Hill Is Not Enough: It’s Time to Demilitarize the Asia-Pacific

FACT SHEET: No National Security without Climate Security

Police Violence is Gun Violence Too

The Pentagon Doesn’t Need More Money. These Things Do.

While the Nation Reels, the Pentagon Budget Keeps Ramping Up Nuclear Weapons

Pentagon Increases in 2022 Could Almost Fund Build Back Better

U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined

Only in Top Gun Can the Military Solve All Our Problems

We Won't Trade E-Carceration for Detention - We Must End All Immigrant Incarceration

It's Almost As If Military Spending Isn't the Key to Peace