National Priorities Project

A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure.

The average taxpayer was forced to subsidize military contractors at the expense of human needs. Here’s an item by item look.

Unless the administration changes its approach, these wars will continue to deprive us of the security we actually need.

We need to invest in the agency that can prevent and reverse ecological disasters.

We must refuse to be divided by those who want to scare us, and enact some genuine immigration reform.

All of that military funding comes at the direct cost of funding social programs and climate programs.

The Department of Defense remains the most carbon-intensive institution in the world. It’s time to stop dumping money into the military.

It would enable the war to go longer and cost more lives while depriving us of resources at home.

Every year that members of Congress vote for budget boosts to this agency with no strings attached, they choose to spend untold billions on war with no accountability.

Can we envision more dignified programs for veterans, and use this model to treat other communities with the same ideal of care?

Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities.

“House Republicans are using aid for Israel as a political pawn in order to slash taxes for their wealthy donors,” said Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden.

Lindsay Koshgarian speaks with Sonali Kolhatkar about why it’s past time to question U.S. military aid to Israel.

The package includes $7.2 billion for direct military financing to Ukraine ($1.7 billion), Israel ($3.5 billion), and the Indo-Pacific ($2 billion).

We must shift the scale away from subsidized violence and towards sustaining the protection and enrichment of immigrant communities.

The U.S. should use diplomatic channels to work for an immediate ceasefire, and shout not provide more weapons and military aid to Israel.

In the face of massive suffering in Gaza and disregard for international law by the Israeli government, the U.S. must not provide additional military aid or weapons that would cause more deaths. Instead, the U.S. should use its considerable diplomatic strength to call for an immediate ceasefire. 

If the United States can’t learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that comes with them

For now, the asylum ban is still here, and every day that it is in effect is a day that thousands of asylum seekers are turned away from the border on top of the 2.7 million denials justified under Title 42

Republicans want to fill the defense bill with bans on abortion, trans health care, and racial diversity initiatives in the military.