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For decades, the federal budget has supported a vision of the United States as a dominant military power. The majority of people in the United States have a different vision of the country.
FCNL advocates shifting money from the military budget to advance the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict through diplomacy and to better meet human needs for education, health care, the environment, infrastructure, and help for the most vulnerable in the United States and the world.
How Were Your 2009 Income Taxes Spent?
How much of your income taxes were spent on military expenses? How much was spent on diplomacy, development, and war prevention? Find the answers to these and many more questions with FCNL's table of where your 2009 income taxes went.
What's Happening
The President's 2011 Budget Proposal Released
The budget proposal would increase Pentagon spending by more than 4%, spend more money on wars, and freeze funds for some domestic programs. Find out more in Ruth Flower's analysis of the president's budget proposal.
FCNL Launches Our Nation's Checkbook Campaign
This campaign urges Congress to save money by ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and investing that money in our communities at home.
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for details on proposed spending cuts and freezes.