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So, what government program is running well?
Breaking news: Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied...
The top 20 hospitals pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid from taxpayers.
220 staffers left what used to be the most expensive White House payroll in American...
Baywatch needs to go on pay watch!
City agencies produced numbers that are wildly apart – differing by $11 million in...
Safe Streets is designed to de-escalate conflicts before they become violent. But...
Only 1 in 10 sworn officers on the force were deployed to interior and exterior posts...
The Ivies added $44 billion to their endowments this year, and new estimates show...
The Biden Administration is hiding previously published audit reports quantifying...
The American taxpayer has been very generous to foreign countries over a long period...
If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president’s commitment to...
As civil unrest loomed last year, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot fully compensated police...
Trump cut the Palestinian aid to zero in 2018. Now, Biden has reversed it.
35,940 lawyers work in 200 federal agencies and the headcount is at an all-time high.
Pork is back on the table in Congress!
Public employees in Boston will continue to earn high wages thanks to taxpayer bailouts.
Illinois public employees and retirees with $100,000+ paychecks grew to an all-time...
Everyone’s getting rich and the kids aren’t learning!
Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative!
This week, the U.S. House passed, along party lines, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue...
Whenever we open the books, Los Angeles consistently ranks among the worst tax and...
Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies have admitted to disbursing an astonishing...
Mayor Bill de Blasio is aggressively pushing for a $12.4 billion federal bailout.
San Francisco is in trouble! Whenever we open the books, San Francisco consistently...
Everything is bigger in Texas—including the supersized salaries of its city managers,...
The Trump administration released its annual report to Congress on the White House...
We dug into Seattle’s pay and pension records for 2019 to figure out how the city...
Local politicians in Washington, D.C. claim a $1.5 billion budget deficit due to...
New York's financial woes aren’t stopping 290,304 government employees from bringing...
Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked U.S. taxpayers for a bailout.
We found 5,137 colleges and universities that were awarded $12.5 billion in coronavirus...
Illinois could soon be the first state in history to have its bonds rated as “junk.”
President Trump legitimized critics who allege that the agency shielded information...
Mohammed Nuru was arrested and charged by the FBI on allegations of bribery, wire...
Federal agencies scramble to spend what’s left in their budgets, in fear that leaving...
Mapping the Swamp, A Study of the Administrative State
Chart National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks and Federal Payments Into the Ivy League Colleges,...
The SBA is costly for taxpayers, and — even worse — it creates a painful human cost...
The VA created 40,000 new positions, but hired only 3,600 doctors (2012-2015) – the...
OpenTheBooks.com estimates that the number of border patrol, customs, and immigration...
Analysis by OpenTheBooks.com estimates that the number of non-Department of Defense...