PoliticsNews
‘ODNI 2.0’: Gabbard Announces Plan to Reduce Her Office by Over 40%
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is reducing her office by over 40% before the end of fiscal year 2025 on Sept. 30. The move, according… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Grounded by Bureaucracy: Trump’s Chance to Ditch the Feds, Commercialize the Skies
Air travel in America isn’t great—and that’s putting it lightly. Our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems cost Americans tens of billions of dollars annually…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Exposing NIH-Funded Research: Why I’m Blowing the Whistle on Corruption
I once stood within the halls of academia, benefiting from the generous funding of the National Institutes of Health. I was part of the system,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democrats Should Concede DOGE’s Diagnosis or Confirm That They Are Fools
President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk are trying to rightsize the entire federal enterprise, just as companies—large and small—do daily. Democrats… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Restoring Trust in Public Health: Preventing Waste and Fraud in National Emergency Assistance
This is the first in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left… Read More
PoliticsNews
Ernst Seeks to Crack Down on Government Employees Doing Union Activities During Work Hours
Republican lawmakers want to rein in the amount of time federal employees spend on union time—including activities such as lobbying Congress and negotiating more benefits—during… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
Elon Musk claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated $59 million last week to house illegal aliens in New York City. The Department… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Hey, Republicans: Don’t Forget About Growth and Prosperity
House Republicans are in another titanic battle with President Joe Biden on how to balance the budget. Actually, it’s a lopsided debate because Democrats have… Read More
SecurityCommentary
More Oversight for Ukraine Aid on the Way?
The push for greater oversight of U.S. aid to Ukraine is making progress. Wednesday night, a bipartisan majority of senators—including nearly every Republican—voted to create… Read More
Federal Agency Loses Money Selling Government Reports. The Catch? They’re Already Free
A federal agency selling government reports that are otherwise free is the target of a new bill meant to curtail government waste. “With a money-losing… Read More
The Surprisingly Simple Way That Congress Could Save Billions
As this morning’s USA Today headline put it, “Government often has 10 agencies doing one job.” That was the takeaway from the fourth annual report… Read More
Government Agency Processes Paperwork ‘Entirely By Hand’ Despite Spending Over $100M to Go Digital
About 600 federal employees process federal retirement claims in an old mine in Pennsylvania, using more than 28,000 file cabinets to house paperwork “done entirely… Read More
Meet the Man Who Got His Dead Mom’s Social Security Benefits for 23 Years
The 2014 omnibus bill contains an increase in funding for running the Social Security Administration (SSA). Maybe now they can stop paying Social Security benefits… Read More
Members of Congress Won’t Read This Bill
Passing bills to find out what’s in them… that was so 2010, right? Sadly, no. Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar… Read More
An Unlimited Christmas Credit Card
What if you had no spending limits this holiday season? You could take that dream ski vacation you’ve always wanted…and buy all new ski gear… Read More
Obamaphones: Rife with Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Free cell phones for low-income Americans, one of the fastest growing welfare programs in the United States, is—by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) own admission—rife… Read More
SecurityNews
Why Finding Waste in the Pentagon Matters
Can the Pentagon be downsized? Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has selected former Air Force Secretary Michael Donley to oversee a Pentagon downsizing effort to cut… Read More
Zero Dark Giggles: Baby Deer Gets the SWAT Team Treatment
An otherwise quiet day in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was interrupted by the shrill sound of police sirens. Thirteen armed law enforcement personnel surrounded a barn on… Read More
Flush with Federal Cash, Obamacare Supporters Spending Money on…Porta-Potties
Even among the law’s supporters, Obamacare is in the toilet. Quite literally. As The Washington Post reports, states implementing Obamacare’s exchanges are considering all kinds… Read More
Morning Bell: Where Could We POSSIBLY Cut the Federal Budget?
If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut? Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course… Read More
Spain’s Top Five Renewable Energy Waste Examples: A Lesson for the U.S.
With Spain’s lavish support for renewable energy projects drying out, companies that relied on these government handouts to make a buck are either leaving the… Read More
Seattle Succumbs to Latest Eco-Fad, Bans Plastic Bags
The plastic bag police scored a victory in Seattle this week. The liberal enclave imposed a ban on plastic bags and a 5-cent tax on… Read More
Scribecast: Acting ‘Green’ Is Now More Important Than Helping Environment
As environmentalism has become more trendy, the value of appearing green is now more important than helping the environment, argues Todd Myers in a new… Read More
Lawmakers Form House-Senate Effort to Eliminate Duplicative Government Programs
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has a powerful ally in the fight to eliminate wasteful duplication in government programs: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced… Read More
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid Still Await Solutions
Recent hearings in both the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation and the Senate Finance Committee took a closer look at fraud… Read More
Duplication in Government Programs Costs Taxpayers at Least $100 Billion
House Republicans could fulfill their Pledge to America promise of cutting $100 billion simply by eliminating duplicative government programs. That’s the startling news from a… Read More
California Squirms with CIRM: The Embryonic Stem Cell Boondoggle
Centrally planned job creation and scientific research pose many of the same problems: extraordinary expense, a pattern of politically shaped insider transactions, and less than… Read More
EPA’s New Rating System Encourages Poor Decisions
The EPA recently proposed a new grading requirement for new car stickers. The A–D grading system would rank cars according to their fuel efficiency and… Read More
Real or Fake: $3.2 Million Turtle Tunnels
Last week, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report detailing 100 wasteful economic stimulus projects including $144,541 in stimulus funds to… Read More
Senator John Kerry on Useless Federal Fire Act Grants
In a recent press release touting a federal fire grant, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) noted that because “firefighters put their lives on the line every… Read More
