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Sliding Past Sequestration: $2 Trillion in Common Sense Cuts to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff

Sliding Past Sequestration: $2 Trillion in Common Sense Cuts to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff In the summer of 2011, Congress sent the President a bill that acknowledged failure. Instead of swallowing hard and coming up with... Read More

Analysis of FY13 Continuing Resolution: Special Carve-outs

September 10, 2012 | Policy Brief | Energy , National Security

Analysis of FY13 Continuing Resolution: Special Carve-outs H.J. Res. 117 — Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 was released this morning (9/11/2012). TCS staff will be posting relevant documents and analysis as we digest this proposal over the coming days.... Read More

Zombie Earmarks in Defense Spending Bill

July 15, 2012 | Fact Sheet | Earmarks & Appropriations , National Security

Zombie Earmarks in Defense Spending Bill The Fiscal Year 2013 defense spending bill heading to the House floor Wednesday is a lesson in why it’s so hard to cut defense spending... Read More

MOX Misses the Mark

June 19, 2012 > Updated: April 09, 2013 | Fact Sheet | Energy , National Security

MOX Misses the Mark Despite the ever-increasing price tag, incessant delays in progress, and known safety risks, the Department of Energy continues to pour federal subsidies into the Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) program year after year. ... Read More

Spending Even Less, Spending Even Smarter

May 08, 2012 | Reports & Data | Earmarks & Appropriations , National Security

Spending Even Less, Spending Even Smarter A report from the Project on Government Oversight and Taxpayers for Common Sense published May 8, 2012 including recommendations for National Security Savings FY 2013 to FY 2022 Deficit Reduction $688 Billion.... Read More

Defense Assets Data

February 12, 2012 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , National Security

Defense Assets Data The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is the largest federal agency in the United States, consuming more than half of discretionary... Read More

FY13 Defense Budget Scorecard

January 27, 2012 | Fact Sheet | National Security

The Defense Department today gave the public a peek behind the cover of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget request, releasing a report and fact... Read More

Super Cuts for the Super Committee

Taxpayers for Common Sense has been working hard to meet the challenge of that the so-called Super Committee is facing - $1.2-1.5... Read More

After 9/11: A Decade of Watching War on Terror Spending

September 08, 2011 | Reports & Data | National Security

This week marks the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Our national security... Read More

Pentagon Contracting 101

August 23, 2011 | 101 | National Security

Pentagon Contracting 101 Overview Tracking contracts in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is daunting. DOD purchases more than $1 billion of goods and... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More