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Search salaries, pensions and checkbooks at OpenTheBooks.com. This tutorial will...
We found that there are public affairs officers at Metro Nashville's Police Department...
Clark County School District is still working to resolve its cybersecurity issues,...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held up a map of human waste in San Francisco at the...
Texas Christian University just announced a tuition hike. TCU will be more expensive...
During those long months of quarantine from COVID-19, it wasn’t just businesses that...
Hundreds of millions in Hollywood handouts facing scrutiny as critics question the...
2008-2023 San Francisco Human Waste Reporting
In 2022 and 2023, case reports of human waste in the public way spiked to all-time...
Pushed harmful teen sex and suicide messaging – even on episodes aired during the...
Our Covid Aid Waste Compendium oversight report quantifies the waste, fraud, and...
Quantifying waste, fraud, and misallocation of taxpayer resources in response to...
Baltimore's Safe Streets program has not been transparent. They've redacted names...
Columbia and Stanford have pulled in billions in federal grants and contracts in...
Voters are expressing concern about the lack of current border control under President...
Elite ivy league colleges get most of their funding from taxpayers while in many...
Sixty-five billion dollars, that's how much our country's wealthiest universities...
We investigated the city of Austin's Dangerous Dogs database. The data is old, and...
Stanford, Northwestern and the Ivy League universities have collected a combined...
Quantifying U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks, And Federal Payments Into The Ivy...
Some private universities receive more from the government than they net in tuition...
This morning, we provided an update on several stories we've been opening the books...
We looked into the new $2 million in funding for a new inmate disciplinary oversight...
As budget battles heat up on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are working to disarm the IRS.
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) proposes Amendment No. 15, which would strike all funding...
Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) cites our work and proposes increased funding for the...
Elite universities have seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. Because of this,...
Israel received $6.6 billion for defense. Another 17 countries split $14 billion...
In this video Rep. Gary Palmer cites our findings on the Environmental Protection...
Amtrak has finally released their payroll information. We found out who makes the...
We have been fighting to get Baltimore's city checkbook. Now, Baltimore has FINALLY...
Revenue from Metro Nashville's parking spots has increased after a 2-year slump....
We found that Israel and Jordan receive the most support in U.S. taxpayer-funded...
Harvard and UPenn pulled in billions in federal funds between 2018 and 2022.
Is U.S.-Palestinian aid going to those in need, or straight to Hamas? OpenTheBooks...
OpenTheBooks.com is applauding the Senate for approving two amendments Tuesday as...
Senate Approves Ernst Amendment to Take Attendance at Government Agencies and Examine...
Since 1984, the U.S. listed Iran as a "state sponsor of terror." So, why was Biden...
Middle school teacher Brett Williams was given $150,000 settlement after being placed...
OpenTheBooks is considering a lawsuit against the city of Baltimore due to the lack...
Millions of American taxpayer dollars are going to high speed internet. Congress...
GOOD NEWS: Tennessee has been ranked among the top U.S. states for good budgeting...
Revenue from recreational marijuana sales across Nevada are dropping. This will lead...
We delved into the driverless car debate in Austin, such as who gets ticketed when...
Billions of your taxpayer dollars are sent to Iran, the world's leading state sponsor...
Our OpenTheBooks auditors found that up to $1 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer dollars may...
We revealed 100 pages of evidence that UNRWA schools taught hate toward Jewish people,...
President Biden sent $1 BILLION in U.S.-Palestinian aid (YOUR taxpayer dollars)....
U.S. Mideast peace negotiators felt that freezing aid to Palestinians was disrespectful....
Everyday, we highlight one quick, blood-boiling example of taxpayer abuse at the...
Restoring earmarks in today's Congress would be like opening a bar tab for a bunch...
The Texas Senate passed a priority bill that will allocate taxpayer money toward...
U.S.-Palestinian over the last seven decades has cost taxpayers around $8 billion...
Tennessee state lawmakers are considering rejecting about $1.9 billion in federal...
We opened the books on the Baltimore City Safe Streets program spending money on...
One America News' John Hines had a conversation with OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam...
While Congress is busy playing musical chairs with the House speaker’s position,...
The wealthiest colleges and universities took Covid aid, with some of them being...
In our investigation, we uncovered Amtrak's payroll information. Initially, Amtrak...
Metro Nashville Public Schools have had 14 violent threats this school year and are...
During the pandemic years the federal government spent billions of dollars on office...
Amtrak riders are treated to scheduling delays, breakdowns, and despite ticket prices,...
Bringing back earmarks is the equivalent of providing an open bar for alcoholics...
The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022,...
Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., is hiding the salaries...
The federal government dropped $3.3 billion on new office furniture as the vast majority...
Federal budgeters kept up with pre-pandemic spending to deck out office spaces during...
While office space was shuttered and employees were paid to work from home, federal...
Emily Compagno, Co-Host of Fox News' Outnumbered, joined the Gutfeld! show and cited...
Dozens of universities in Tennessee collected $855 million worth of federal. covid...
We opened the books on Austin's city checkbook when the city lost power due to an...
Amtrak released a portion of its payroll information, marking the first instance...
BALTIMORE: Why did the top 25 wealthiest colleges & universities received $4 BILLION...
We opened the books on Baltimore Community College President Debra L. McCurdy's massive...
In 2022, their president made $593,000. Debra L. McCurdy, Ph.D. was the second most...
We investigated the top earmarks spenders in the senate, going into 2024.
Metro Nashville's license plate reader program will soon be a permanent fixture....
It has been 1 week since Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted from impeachment...
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions in taxpayer...
A video from the nonprofit Gender Spectrum trains K–12 schools to help students explore...
Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, Christine...
“You’re on a gender journey” – California K-12 schools teach students that genders...
We discovered that the President of the Baltimore City Community College received...
The federal government is spending $15.4 billion to help conserve water in the Colorado...
Metro Nashville employees drive and take home 1000+ company vehicles. We broke down...
More than three years after the start of the pandemic new reports continue finding...
Austin Energy has hiked energy rates. This is the third increase in the last year!...
We broke down Texas' huge budget and where it's going. It's the most money that's...
Brightline West is waiting for $3.75 billion in federal funding for a high speed...
The Department of Energy invested $1.2 billion to vacuum greenhouse gases from the...
Sen. Joni Erst (R-IA) cites OpenTheBooks findings in her "Back to Work" floor speech.
A program in California is raising red flags dealing with gender school training...
We sorted through the 173-page after-action report into the Brooklyn mass shooting....
Maine has the 2nd oldest school choice law in the US. Is this old system working...
20% of Tennessee students were considered chronically absent when students returned...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, broke down the billions of dollars going...
One-third of students in Nevada schools were considered "chronically absent." That's...
Should taxpayers pick up the cost of maintaining mostly empty buildings in Washington?
In the city of Austin, many celebrities have been receiving government aid for their...
Nashville is struggling to house its homeless population.
American universities and colleges have received billions of dollars from foreign...
Since 1980, the national debt of USA skyrocketed from less than $1 trillion to nearly...
Lawmakers also highlighted that 'the OpenTheBooks report found that at least 59 payments...
Hawaiian Residents are questioning the $500M in earmarks congressional Hawaiian lawmakers...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski recaps our biggest findings when it comes...
The taxpayer paid sabbatical of the new city manager, the nearly 100,000 parking...
Universities across the country have received billions of dollars from foreign governments.
A Baltimore Superintendent of Schools deleted 98 text messages from his taxpayer-funded...
OpenTheBooks.com just received some unredacted documents the National Institutes...
Anthony Fauci Provided Cover For $325 Million In Third-Party Royalties Paid In Secret...
During the pandemic, some Americans wondered just how close the federal government...
National Institutes of Health scientists raked in more than $325 million in royalties...
Longtime directors of NIH and its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
A list of Hawaii State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Opening the books on Austin Independent School District's 2023-2024 budget. At the...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) received approximately $325 million in royalty...
Opening the books on how much foreign influence there is in Maine's colleges and...
The average administrator in Clark County schools earns six figures, and with an...
The feds indicted a Baltimore nonprofit's CEO on fraud allegations. OpenTheBooks...
Drug makers in 31 foreign countries, including China, Russia, and Belarus, paid hundreds...
EXCLUSIVE — The Environmental Protection Agency in Joe Biden's first two years as...
Earmarks bypass the regular budgeting process in Congress.
Red flags on alleged money laundering, misused funds, no transparency on federal...
Big-Pharma, Chinese and Russian companies, and nefarious characters from around the...
How much foreign influence is there in higher education across Texas?
WASHINGTON (TND) — It has been a rocky week for America's credit after being downgraded...
Foreign aid to China & Russia, earmarks, NIH's secret royalty payment stream, and...
Why are taxpayer dollars flowing to adversarial nations?
Why OpenTheBooks supports Senator Rand Paul’s amendment.
The American people deserve to see who's "in" and who's "out" on earmarks. No secrets.
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski joined Maria Bartiromo to discuss EPA funding...
Quantifying agency operations during fiscal years 2018-2022.
A new comprehensive investigative report shows the billions of taxpayer dollars going...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO, talked about his research into waste and abuse...
Teenagers have been breaking into closed city swimming pools this summer. Many have...
In 2022, there were 114 congressional earmarks totaled $206 million in Nevada. This...
We opened the books on the Travis Co. public employee salaries.
The Biden administration has suspended funding for the Chinese lab at the center...
Government watchdog found over $325M went to NIH and its scientists since 2009.
The Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement received $13.4 million in...
The U.S. has spent $13 billion on unaccompanied minors at the southern border.
Government wasted billions of dollars (annually) due to duplicative spending.
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, joined Russell Brand's Stay Free Podcast...
Property owners have started to sue in order to regain their home equity that municipalities...
OpenTheBooks analyzed the 2022 payroll for the Austin Independent School District,...
White House payroll reaches historic highs costing American taxpayers millions of...
When there’s a glimmer good news contra this mess, it’s worth taking a pause to acknowledge...
From billions of dollars in foreign aid to Russia & China, to billions in covid 'aid,'...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joined NewsmaxTV to discuss the $16 billion...
Seven of the top 10 lawmakers who used earmarks recently are Senate Republicans,...
Institutionalized incompetence at the hands of the federal government. In the first...
After a nearly 11-year ban, earmarks – money set aside for localized projects in...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Members of Congress used "earmarks" to allocate more than $16...
Bidenomics Hits the White House Payroll.
Joining us this morning to discuss the legalization of marijuana in Maryland is Adam...
Clark County spends about $313 million a year on homeless services — emergency homeless...
Metro Nashville is giving $375 million in economic development incentive grants and...
Our investigation on federal earmarks in Maine.
After a ten-year ban, a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans in Congress...
Congress earmarked 7,509 projects for $16,012,272,565 in taxpayer cost in the Consolidated...
Sen. Joni Ernst and OpenTheBooks.com: Your tax dollars are trickling down to everything...
Founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com Adam Andrzejewski sheds light on some of the...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that excess funds from municipal tax-debt...
Police in many states step up speed enforcement during the summer, especially during...
Baltimore has a budget and will spend $4.4 billion in the next year and top city...
We compared Nevada State Police Trooper pay to other agencies, such as Metro Nevada.
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joins America's Newsroom to discuss our...
The federal government has made nearly $3 trillion in “improper” payments over the...
Sen. Joni Ernst has announced legislation to take away IRS agents’ guns and ammunition,...
The city released new numbers in March showing nearly 5,100 unhoused people in Austin.
The federal government wasted an average of $683 million per day in 2022, according...
More than three years after the U.S. stopped sending taxpayer dollars to fund coronavirus...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) put forward legislation Tuesday to block the Internal Revenue...
So, what government program is running well?
The Biden administration wasted over half a trillion dollars in its first two years...
OpenTheBooks calculates the federal government spends $474,305 per minute on improper...
IRS Has Spent Over $32 Million Taxpayer Dollars on Weapons, Ammo
We broke down Portland's city credit card spending, which included emergency shelter...
We took a deep dive into the $66 million spent to help rebuild Metro Nashville, after...
Seventeen of the largest federal agencies admitted to $3 trillion in improper payments...
While on track to waste $1 trillion of your taxes, they want to tax you even more.
At Least $528 Billion Wasted During First Two Years of Biden Administration.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, Section A, as a full page national display...
Mapping $16 Billion in Congressional Earmarks FY2023
Since the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Metro Nashville’s sidewalk...
Our OpenTheBooks auditors found $179 million in USA foreign aid to Canada over the...
A new documentary exposes Ivy League universities for their massive endowments and...
More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars have funded projects in Russia and China...
More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China over the past...
U.S. taxpayers are funding pointless projects in China and Russia. Will and Pete...
Senator Ernst and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) are leading the charge to...
In real time, the city of Baltimore has moved backwards and refuses to produce a...
Two lawmakers on Capitol Hill are leading the charge to account for every hard-earned...
Last week, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that Portland ranked #2 out of...
This week, the public employee unions pushed back on the interim city manager's back-to-...
Clark County spent $1.3 million on its credit cards in FY2022. More than 80% was...
Metro Nashville students are struggling, while the teachers are the highest paid...
'Washington’s continued spending is so out of hand, it is losing track of Americans’...
WASHINGTON – More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China...
Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied child...
Law enforcement agencies in the Las Vegas area may be busy writing traffic tickets,...
Working for Austin city government in a leadership position is very lucrative. Recently,...
Federal funding to sponsor unaccompanied minors at the southern border reached an...
City Comptroller Bill Henry ran on a transparency promise. However, on his watch,...
Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure to provide for these...
Breaking news: Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied...
Our partners at OpenTheBooks.com have the updated 2022 speed and red light camera...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight analysis to the Texas State Police....
Government workers in Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson earned...
Billions of pandemic dollars were pocketed by top nonprofit hospitals.
Metro Nashville Public Schools spent $4.1 million on travel expenses in 2022, including...
GOP lawmakers have demanded spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling,...
Our auditors uncovered the top 20 hospitals who pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid...
Prepared testimony for the United States Senate Committee On Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Since 2010, Las Vegas-area law enforcement agencies have received $8.4 million worth...
Portland, Maine's city manager will cost taxpayers an estimated $900,000 - $1 million...
Metro Airport police received nearly $2 million worth of military surplus gear for...
Baltimore's failure to make weekly trash recycling pickups, despite a well-funded...
We opened the books on the Austin Police Department's partnership with the Texas...
The Baltimore mayor and city council are facing a lawsuit after failing to make weekly...
The top 20 hospitals pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid from taxpayers.
We looked at the Portland police department and other local departments receiving...
We looked at the Austin police department and other local departments receiving surplus...
Clark County spent $1.5 million on training and travel-related expenses in fiscal...
What is the Gun Force Trace Settlement Tracker and how much has been paid out by...
Since the withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago, the U.S. has spent around $8...
What is the IRS gearing up for?
The taxmen are armed to the teeth.
John Bachman and Bianca de la Garza discuss our report, The Militarization of the...
Federal agencies such as the IRS and the EPA have spent nearly $4 billion on guns,...
A new report details a startling trend: Federal agencies with no obvious law enforcement...
And why does the IRS need guns?
Kudlow calls out the weaponization of the IRS, showcasing OpenTheBooks findings.
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst and watchdog organization OpenTheBooks demand transparency...
Today, the are more federal officers with arrest and firearm authority (200,000)...
Local governments and municipalities are spending taxpayer dollars to work (lobby)...
Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson spent over $1 million collectively...
Two of Portland's hospitals were audited for their compliance with federal healthcare...
Billions of dollars have been spent over the past few decades to arm federal agencies...
We investigated the Baltimore Police Department and other local departments receiving...
There are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority (200,000) than...
After grabbing legal power, bureaucrats are amassing firepower. It’s time to scale...
After grabbing legal power, federal bureaucrats are amassing firepower.
Why does the IRS need five million rounds of ammunition?
In episode 219 of Glenn TV, Glenn Beck discusses our OpenTheBooks oversight report...
We joined the Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer to discuss Dr. Fauci’s lockdowns...
Sean Hannity properly cited our oversight report, The Militarization of the Federal...
Republican lawmakers want to stop the agency from purchasing more.
Adam Andrzejewski joins Rob Schilling to discuss the militarization of the U.S. executive...
$5.7 trillion of covid aid over 3 years equals $58K per second, including to wealthy...
Two of Baltimore’s largest non-profit or not-for-profit hospitals are among a small...
Three of Las Vegas’s largest hospitals have not been in compliance with a federal...
Three of Nashville’s largest non-profit hospitals have not been in total compliance...
Three of Austin’s largest non-profit hospitals have not been in total compliance...
Every Friday, we join FOX45 to discuss transparency in Baltimore. Here's a recap...
Wealthy nonprofit hospitals in Portland, Maine got wealthier during the pandemic...
Baltimore's nonprofit hospitals profited during the Covid pandemic.
As about 100 million Americans struggle with medical debt, two large nonprofit hospitals...
Tax revenues are at an all-time high spending in Washington and it’s not slowing...
Transparency has never been more important to the survival of our country as our...
We discussed the future of public health, and bipartisan corruption and spending...
Nevada’s underfunded pension system and retiree health care benefits have saddled...
Tennessee has one of the best funded pension systems, and Nashville also appears...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the crops producing our morning cup of coffee are in...
Government bureaucrats are slowly returning to the office after three years of working...
The head of Baltimore’s Bureau of Water and Wastewater, who was given $1 billion...
The City of Portland, Maine has been slow to respond to open records requests about...
Self-declared "woke administrator" moved to a different job in the Department of...
Since Congress began dispersing Covid-19 aid to schools in 2020, Metro Nashville...
Previously, OpenTheBooks found interesting city expenditures on plastic — the city...
New York City has already trashed more than $14.1 million worth of extra COVID supplies...
March Madness has come to Las Vegas, and with it a chance to look at what basketball...
America’s top doctor and his wife – the chief ethicist – were the administrative...
The Baltimore Police Department's forensic lab still doesn’t have the materials it...
We used the Texas open records law to force production of the wrongful death settlements...
Washington, D.C. has the highest work-from-home rate in the country and Americans...
The City of Henderson spent $2.9 million on its credit cards in 2022 — including...
New records show the DA’s office spent at least $32,000 on cameras since 2020 — some...
Who knew that the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank made 3 investments into Newsom's...
We investigated the close ties between the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and Gov....
California Governor Gavin Newsom's potential ties to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) have...
The bank just deleted their Twitter account. So much for transparency from a bank...
Our 2022 "Impacts & Successes" Annual Report is Here!
While Clark County has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles, the cities of Las Vegas...
The city of Baltimore is struggling to pay off its crippling debt, and the burden...
Washington D.C. is overpaying for public housing and it's costing taxpayers millions...
The state of Maine may end up having trouble paying off its bills without burdening...
The City of Austin, Texas did not save any money to pay for future retirees’ healthcare...
Metro Nashville will start paying $7,000 per month to a private company for police...
Today, the culture of secrecy is more pervasive than ever before.
Just how much did it cost to shoot down that balloon?
Charities locally received federal monies, donors giving to the governor's inauguration...
Kelisa Wing is doubling down as her controversial children's books proliferate in...
Adam Andrzejewski summarizes Austin's recent shakeups and how much it has cost taxpayers.
In the fiscal year of 2023, Representative Kweisi Mfume D-MD has secured almost $24...
In the cities of North Las Vegas and Henderson, paid time off is generous for the...
While Metro Nashville officials say it’s going to take until at least August to produce...
A combined 606 copies of works authored or contributed to by Kelisa Wing are now...
While DOD obfuscates, Kelisa Wing’s racial justice propaganda proliferates, and she...
Top Republican Sen. Wicker on the Senate Armed Services Committee will address tackle...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski discusses our findings on U.S.-funded military...
Covid cash has been funding non-pandemic plans!
We uncovered that since 2010 the NIH hid $1.4 billion in third-party royalties paid...
We gave oversight to the federal digital divide dollars flowing into the City of...
Austin Police Department (APD) headcounts in 911 operators and rank-and-file police...
The 40-member Metro Nashville Council that Republican state lawmakers want to slash...
The U.S. Department of Education cannot pass an audit, even with a $49 billion taxpayer-funded...
Not including the cost of travel and conferences paid by taxpayers, Cronk will make...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed for billions of dollars in state funding...
Is the contract in the public's interest or in the special interest of the mayor?
We gave oversight to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, a local 501c3 organization...
Austin's response to the ice storm was a failure in transparency!
Test scores are plummeting, while teachers are getting paid more. We investigated...
"Legalized" pay-to-play in California – the Newsom's create problems, "solve" them,...
A major ice storm knocked power out for hundreds of thousands of residents when trees...
In Baltimore, trash pickup is once every two weeks and Baltimore's brown drinking...
Around 200 Metro employees are receiving taxpayer-funded monthly pensions. They also...
One quarter of Clark County School District’s 11,000 employees had a total compensation...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to cut spending and make sure Americans in...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com has been giving oversight to federal payrolls going...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight to the federal earmarks stuffed into...
While Nevada’s public pension system is facing an $18 billion deficit, it’s cutting...
We found that Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in America.
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County spent half a million...
An agency headed by a senator's wife got hundreds of millions of dollars through...
Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com joined KEYE CBS-Austin to discuss the...
In their first press conference at any point of the severe winter weather that hit...
Trace Gallagher joined Tucker Carlson to discuss our OpenTheBooks investigation on...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight to the governor's transition and...
This week, we are taking a deeper dive into the City of Austin credit card expenditure...
Metro Nashville has begun working on a five-year plan to implement its goal of zero...
A 2022 audit of the Department of Defense found hundreds of millions of dollars and...
Paid time off given to City of Las Vegas employees is so generous that in 2021, the...
CEO of Open The Books, Adam Andrzejewski joins OAN’s Alicia Summers to discuss our...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the horrific...
Rachel O'Brien with OpenTheBooks.com joined discussed our findings on the relationship...
Yesterday, Hollywood star Russell Brand posted our 20-minute podcast interview on...
This week, we'll kick off our deep dive into the Baltimore nonprofits profiting from...
The Representation Project pulls in revenue from public schools while pushing a far-left...
A judge found that Nashville Fire Department’s defamation and derogatory statements...
Billions of taxpayer dollars for the COVID-19 Lost Wages Assistance program went...
2.6 million students across 11,200 classrooms and 5,000 schools are subjected to...
The NIH has benefited from $1.4 billion in secret third-party royalties over the...
In 2022, OpenTheBooks.com published reports on spending in the City of Las Vegas,...
Starting in 2022, we partnered with OpenTheBooks.com on a Transparency Tracker segment...
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s non-profit, The Representation Project, raises money from...
Starting in Fall 2022, KEYE CBS-Austin partnered with OpenTheBooks.com on a Transparency...
Open The Books founder Adam Andrzejewski joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat...
In 2022, OpenTheBooks.com published about 20 reports on spending in Metropolitan...
OpenTheBooks has led the way in asking Congress to put every piece of legislation...
Adam Andrzejewski talked about the Republican-led Congress' approach to government...
This to-do list is just a start, and it’s an agenda that’s tangible. As always, we’ll...
At least $325 million in third-party paid royalty payments from healthcare entities...
Southwest Airlines stranded tens of thousands of passengers around the country on...
John Bachman show highlights our OpenTheBooks investigation on how Southwest Airlines...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski and his family were just a few on the...
More than 5,000 Southwest Airlines flights across the United States have been cancelled...
Our investigation into the $1.7 billion omnibus bill.
In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans found common ground – using...
Southwest stole Christmas for tens of thousands of its passengers.
Amid the ongoing Southwest Airlines crisis leaving thousands of passengers stranded...
A deep dive inside the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill.
Earmarks are the currency of corruption in Congress. Watch the interview and learn...
Texas republicans out-earmarked democrats $500 million to $300 million.
In Maine, republican senator Susan Collins out-earmarked all democrats collectively—...
7,500 earmarks for $16 billion are included in the latest year-end omnibus spending...
The Nevada democratic congressional delegation requested $173 million in earmarks...
A new investigation from government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks has revealed the...
Last year, the City of Baltimore didn’t follow rules required to use federal funds,...
Watch and learn about the top local governments that received a federal grant in...
Meet the Austin Independent School District’s $100,000 Club.
More than 95% of PPP loans were forgiven, and many were sent out to wealthy organizations,...
OpenTheBooks.com investigations can guide them.
On this week's "Waste of the Week," Medicaid is overspending and costing taxpayers...
Today, critics blame the massive largess in “Covid-aid” for spiking the inflation...
$64 billion in federal grants flowed to 294 entities with an Austin, Texas address....
The fiscal year of the U.S. federal government just ended on September 30. The most...
We found nearly $1.5 billion in forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans went to...
The Mayor of Baltimore vetoed a fast-tracked measure from the city council this week....
The big firms got bigger and you paid for it during the Covid pandemic!
Law firm Boies Schiller Flexner received $10 million in forgiven pandemic loans from...
This week, President Joe Biden continued to tout the spending within the $1.9 trillion...
Metro Nashville is paying almost 200 people for part-time work while also paying...
When negotiating pay packages for public employees, everything has to be on the table...
Big law and accounting firms raked in $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed COVID-19 "relief"...
We took a snapshot of forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and found...
The big firms got bigger and you paid for it during the Covid pandemic.
More than 160 Chinese-born scientists who conducted U.S. taxpayer-funded military...
Paycheck Protection Program - Forgiven Loans
OpenTheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski unpacks a watchdog report that says $20...
The new ‘minimum wage’ for government work is now $100,000+.
More than 150 Chinese-born scientists who did U.S. taxpayer-funded military research...
The City of Austin paid out 1,292 grants for a total of $211,224,588 last year! Check...
Baltimore City student test scores have dropped to some of the lowest in the country....
In 2021, the City of Las Vegas contracted with 2,515 distinct vendors who received...
Unfortunately, many businesses have abused the PPP, and many of these loans have...
More than 600 businesses in Seattle received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgiveness...
Millions of U. S. dollars have been given to 11 American universities that fund overtly...
Nothing rankles taxpayers more than lawmakers reaping lifetime retirement pensions...
Meet the Portland $70,000 Club – 406 city employees who out-earned Maine Governor...
Last week, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com identified the Las Vegas $100,000 Club...
Working for Austin city government in a leadership position is very lucrative!
Over 130,000 state workers making over $100,000 in annual salary or pension
"Waste of the Week" on TND: City Spends $1.7M to Install Single Toilet In Town Square
How The PIA Handles Requests.
Illinois debt teetered close to junk bond status until nearly $200 billion in Covid...
Meet Portland’s $70,000 Club.
Meet The Las Vegas $100,000 Club
Nearly 550,000 Unused Sick And Vacation Days "Banked" By Metro Nashville Public School...
The Department of Homeland Security spent more than $400 million a year just to track...
The SBA has forgiven 95 percent of all its PPP loans, in full or in part, including...
How do you debate pay, perks, and pension benefits for public employees if everything...
Metro Nashville gave away $4.8 million in grants to non-profits this year, including...
Illinois Public Employee Salaries & Pensions $100,000+ (2020-2021)
More than $600 million was handed out in COVID-19 aid to ineligible nonprofits and...
An hour-by-hour timeline of what Dr. Fauci was doing in the months before and after...
$800 BILLION in taxpayer money was used to help save the economy during the pandemic,...
A California program is paying people not to have a car and Oregon is spending nearly...
A Baltimore City School police officer is on pace to earn more than his annual salary...
We received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes...
Kelisa Wing advocates a racial reckoning, a revolution in the Pentagon's K-12 schools....
'OpenTheBooks' launched an investigation following tweets from Kelisa Wing, a Department...
3,569 City Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks
Dr. Anthony Fauci's net worth reportedly grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic...
While millions of Americans suffered under his pandemic policies, Fauci's personal...
The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the...
Waste, Fraud, Corruption And Taxpayer Abuse -- Government's War On Transparency....
If your current elected officials continue to show a complete lack of respect for...
The City of Baltimore paid $1,155 for City Council President Nick Mosby to attend...
The fight continues! Sen. Rand Paul (R) grilled Dr. Fauci on those hidden NIH royalty...
For the first time in 13 years, New York City failed to find beds for dozens of men...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, and Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed during a Wednesday Senate hearing...
An investigation into LA county's public employees uncovered a massive mileage misuse...
Independent transparency non-profit Open the Books has dived deep into California’s...
LEGAL PAY-TO-PLAY: California Governor Gavin Newsom has quietly solicited millions...
The top 30 vendors accounted for $5 billion of the contracts after donating $1.5...
There remains so much to be done before the Transparency Revolution will be anywhere...
Pay to play is legal in California as there are no statewide prohibitions.
Millions in donations to Governor Gavin Newsom's campaign have resulted in billions...
We accomplished what the governor, controller, attorney general, lawmakers, a Superior...
The books are finally open in the Golden State!
Gavin Newsom's Campaign Donations
A 22,500-square-foot jail expansion project in Mendocino County, California, was...
Would you want Nashville’s top public defender to represent you in court?
California's books are FINALLY open. We kept our promise to force open the books...
Is the spending in the public interest, or the special interest?
Dr. Fauci announces his retirement. Was he forced out from the inside?
"I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director...
This week's "Waste of the Week" on The National Desk highlights the roughly $96,000...
In fiscal year 2021, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County...
A large nonprofit organization that left other Baltimore projects and organizations...
The early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were hard on most people, but especially...
The "Waste of the Week" goes to the Connecticut Port Authority and President Joe...
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville's employees drove more than 700 taxpayer-funded...
The company denies that its surveys function as the gateway for critical race theory...
On June 3, 2022, we sampled 50 nonprofits receiving city grants and found that 15...
Oregon state officials are being scrutinized after an audit on the state's education...
Why Does Your IRS Auditor Need a Machine Gun?
The Export-Import Bank.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent $2.3 million on unused data plans and...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com looked into how EX-IM executives and politicians...
We found that there were 700 Baltimore school employees that were paid to stay home...
The city of Nashville paid more than 9,000 employees $28 million in overtime in 2021!...
Jesse Watters reports on our OpenTheBooks investigation that highlights Dr. Fauci's...
California Gov. Gavin News plans to send billions in gas checks without lowering...
During President Joe Biden’s first two-years, he spent $100.7 million on the largest...
It’s the largest federal retirement package in history. An unprecedented golden parachute...
Adam Andrzejewski details our Where's The Pork? oversight report on C-SPAN's Washington...
Open the Books is suing in federal court, seeking to force the National Institutes...
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information...
Congressional Third Party Paid Travel: Between 2017 and 2021, more than 500 Congress...
Thousands of Paid-For Congressional Trips, Millions of Dollars in Federal Grants,...
Some officials in the City of Baltimore get taxpayer-funded vehicles.
As violence in Baltimore rises, the city's mayors continue to receive raises!
Despite 220 staffers quitting last year, the Biden Administration has spent more...
Just how much federal pork and waste are your tax dollars funding?
President Biden's bloated White House is the most expensive since 1995! In 2021,...
220 staffers left what used to be the most expensive White House payroll in American...
President Joe Biden’s Office of the White House spending in his first year tops...
The Office of the Vice President, or OVP, isn’t subject to FOIA because, it argues,...
Recently, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci for details of hidden...
The trillions of dollars spent on COVID-19 "bailouts" will be a subject of controversy...
Two recent audits from Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry’s office found “fiscal...
Exposing the continued fleecing of America.