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The U.S. Agency for International Development funded a pet tracking app, fashion companies, specialty food companies, and firms making designer furniture, according to records reviewed by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “USAID was wasting tax dollars like it was going out of style,” Ernst, who chairs the Senate DOGE Caucus focused on rooting out waste and…

Democrats and the media—along with federal employee unions—have rallied around the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that has been in the sights of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative for its censorship, waste, and hindering of businesses disfavored by the Left, among other issues.  CBS’ “60 Minutes” also aired a highly sympathetic piece about…

The House Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., will convene Wednesday to explore one question: “How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World.” Coming amid President Donald Trump’s drastic downsizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the hearing will hear from three witnesses who will make the…

THE CENTER SQUARE—A Virginia congressman has introduced legislation to “bring transparency and accountability” to the Department of Government Efficiency. Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, a first-term congressman, says recent actions by DOGE are “illegal” and “unconstitutional,” resulting in the firings of “highly qualified” federal workers, the dismantling of “congressionally-authorized agencies,” as well as “other actions that…

The battle to protect children and youth from harmful transgender practices has not been won, according to detransitioner Chloe Cole. While great progress has been made during the first month of the Trump administration, the battle is far from over, Cole says.   “This is not a point in time where we can just assume…