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A new software update put out by the Small Business Administration (SBA) prevented...
Open the Books is cited in Sen. Joni Ernst's "Out of Office Report."
Biden administration redacted the work locations of over 281,000 rank-and-file federal...
Kelisa Wing drew pressure from Congress after she gave speeches about how tired she...
For the better part of two years, the Pentagon’s K-12 school system has been embroiled...
$127M was spent just studying and countering Covid-related speech.
OpenTheBooks.com CEO John Hart talks with Will Cain about the obvious places to eliminate...
OpenTheBooks.com CEO John Hart discusses the newly-minted Department of Government...
OpenTheBooks.com CEO John Hart joined Laura Ingraham as soon as news broke that Elon...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The head of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr....
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, and a likely GOP trifecta, will give him...
A new report by Open the Books reveals that the Health and Human Services Department...
"Equity" concept appears 829 times in Department's 2025 budget request, reaching...
Former longtime Comms. Director for Sen. Coburn helped create architecture of the...
“We could find no other cases of a former federal employee receiving this level of...
Dr. Anthony Fauci was granted $15 million in taxpayer-funded security as a private...
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Congress is currently debating a set of 12 bills that will fund the federal government...
Clark County School District is paying a search firm six figures to find a new superintendent,...
For most Maine voters, voting on Election Day is a simple process of going to a polling...
Legal challenges are prompting some American companies to reconsider their diversity,...
Inside our investigation on Dr. Fauci's $15M private security detail.
This week the brand-new Commission to review Maryland’s juvenile justice policies...
OpenTheBooks uncovers unprecedented agreement with U.S. Marshals.
The nonprofit group Truth in Accounting recently ranked the financial health of all...
The Cumberland County Jail has been in the headlines recently because of a new contract...
While most former felons are eligible to vote in Maryland, there are still efforts...
State leaders in six states, including Tennessee, have asked Congress for more money...
Clark County School District is facing a $10 million shortfall, and officials have...
This election is a first in two major ways: it’s the first election in which a new...
While many states have given voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, making millions...
Indicted Mayor Eric Adams and 13 of his mostly now former top aides ensnared in corruption...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams became the first sitting NYC mayor to be indicted when he was...
Fully remote work lives on among federal workers, and it’s costing taxpayers.
CHICAGO — Following the passing of OpenTheBooks Founder & CEO Adam Andrzejewski,...
New York City has been in the news for the indictment of its mayor, Eric Adams.
Tennessee’s representatives in Congress are asking for only a little more in federal...
Nevada’s representatives in Congress are asking for three times as much in federal...
A proposed construction project to link two train stations in Boston could make long-distance...
Following months of campus upheaval, we examined $283M in foreign studies grants.
The Department of Education has granted millions of dollars in funding to university...
For at least the seventh year, Tennessee is one of the highest ranked states in the...
In November, Austinites will vote on a ballot measure that would increase average...
A new report from a government watchdog group reveals that improper payments by the...
Tax dollars assigned to old storm cleanup projects could be back in the Disaster...
Last week the City of Austin released its tentative new contract for police officers,...
Metro Nashville Public Schools has spent $27 million on security services since 2019,...
Open the Books was founded in 2011 on a simple principle: Taxpayers deserve to know...
A loss of over $7,500 tax dollars every SECOND in 2023!
The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on improper payments...
The federal government has awarded Maine several grants over the past two months...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved almost $1 billion to help Texas...
Baltimore officials were in court this week suing drug manufacturers Cencora and...
Metro Nashville spent $4 million on its credit cards last fiscal year, including...
Before President Joe Biden leaves office, his administration will have lost $7000...
The federal government blows nearly half a million dollars every minute of every...
Improper payments include administrative errors and overpayments, but could miss...
If current trends persist, the Biden-Harris administration will have made over $1...
Governor Abbott and state legislators have fought for years over passing a school...
Officials at the Maine Public Employees Retirement System are responsible for helping...
Mayor Brandon Scott announced last December that cars provided to Baltimore city...
The Clark County Shooting Complex has been losing money since it opened in 2010,...
If you’re renewing or making changes to your Tennessee driver license you’ll notice...
During the winter 2023 ice storm in Austin, Texas, Austin Energy couldn’t keep the...
Both sides negotiating a legal settlement had ties to the Walz administration, sidestepping...
OpenTheBooks.com caps a years-long NIH investigation with new findings, progress...
Universities across the country have received $54 billion from foreign governments...
Home owners across the state have seen increases to their property tax bill this...
Universities across the country have received tens of billions of dollars from foreign...
Chinese, Russian, and other foreign biotech companies have paid billions of dollars...
As we checked for pay-to-play, Chauvin’s prosecutor, Carter-Mondale kin, and trans...
Travis County’s median property taxes are among the highest in the entire country.
The State of Maine has until the end of this year to plan out how it will spend its...
After a few rocky years dealing with its trash and recycling, Metro Nashville is...
We’re recommitting to our transparency mission with renewed purpose, honoring the...
Congress gave $350 billion to states and local governments to combat the Covid-19...
Law enforcement agencies in the Las Vegas area may be busy writing traffic tickets,...
A rule requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish annual reports...
You may have grabbed a cold beer or chilled cocktail during this summer’s excessive...
Democrats 'save democracy' by hiding their candidate from public view.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency declared seven disasters for storms in Tennessee...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation mandating a “tax...
OpenTheBooks, citing payroll records, says as of March 31, 2024, only four of the...
According to government watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.com, Vice President Kamala...
A diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training in the Pentagon's education wing...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ office has had high levels of staff turnover throughout...
Use of force incidents by Metro Nashville police have increased in the last two years,...
Behind the recent public self-branding of Harris as a kindly, jovial 'Momala', she...
A strong politician in some ways, but also deeply flawed. Now, she's ours.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s office has had a turnover rate higher than 90% over...
California schools are about to be overrun with woodland animals, pets, vampires,...
Chaos reigns on the vice president’s staff. And Harris tried to hide it by claiming...
The office of Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a turnover rate higher than...
Inside our breaking oversight report "Schools for Radicals: The Secret Push to Institute...
Scientists and stakeholders around the country are commending U.S. Senator Rand Paul...
The Supreme Court recently sided with states like Nevada that have laws banning people...
DoDEA dismantled its DEI department, dispersing workers to 'less public roles.'
While Metro Nashville has cleared some homeless encampments, it’s spending millions...
WASHINGTON (TND) — President Joe Biden has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to...
However, since 2021, only 127 of President Joe Biden’s initial 560 White House employees...
Before you pop open a cold beer at a Fourth of July barbecue next week, here’s something...
Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson spent $2...
It is a sign of the times as lawmakers call out government waste and this time it's...
2021-2024
Inflation has hit every American in every city but now a new problem is emerging...
Potholes are an irritation to every driver who has hit one but just how much is Tennessee...
A new report from the state looks at the pandemic’s impact on Nevada, including the...
At the May 23, 2024, meeting of the UNC Board of Regents, the governors of the University...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), ranking member, cites our statement!
As the Metro Nashville police payroll has gone up over recent years, so has the amount...
An audit released by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General...
The deal for the new A’s baseball stadium coming to Las Vegas keeps getting worse...
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After following the money on Dr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health, we...
NIH covered up longtime payment scheme. We sued twice in federal court. We are winning....
During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Millions in royalty payments flowed into the National Institutes...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrezjewski had a front row seat at Dr. Anthony Fauci's...
Federal bureaucrats are purposefully stonewalling the American people’s right to...
Federal agencies under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership received hundreds of millions...
Anthony Fauci heads to Capitol Hill Monday to testify before the House Select Subcommittee...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is expected to publicly testify in front of the US House Select...
Clark County School District employees spent $53 million through almost 205,000 transactions...
Northwestern University was in the hot seat this week as President Michael Schill...
A new report reveals a diversity apparatus of shocking size.
It’s a massive complex dedicated to the neo-Marxist agenda.
Plus, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others gave $1 billion to the university in foreign...
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We believe it's the most important public policy innovation in U.S. history. It's...
The fleet of take-home vehicles that Metro Nashville employees drive has grown, including...
Paid time off for Clark County employees is so generous that last year, the county...
Some of the nation’s top universities have received about $10 million from the “State...
Several elite universities received donations from a foundation in the “State of...
Slowly but surely, the diversity, equity and inclusion movement is dying.
Harvard University and Brown University collected more than $2 million combined from...
Troubling grants and contracts classified in the federal database funded anti-Israel...
The level of chaos from protests at universities across the country has not been...
Metro Nashville Public Schools paid time off is so generous that hundreds of people...
Just before law enforcement moved to dismantle an anti-Israel encampment Thursday...
Taxpayers are funding Ivy League schools such as Columbia University, which is currently...
More than $7B in taxpayer money has been given to schools that have fostered anti-Israel...
Americans are watching in horror as thousands of real students led like sheep by...
As Nashville prepares for a massive mixed-use development on the East Bank, we’re...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes through the end of the semester because...
Clark County’s average employees are paid a modest wage, but the people at the top...
Government employees should disclose who is paying them royalties.
Outraged lawmakers are demanding answers about American tax dollars going to firms...
The Pentagon’s watchdog agency will audit more than $50 million in grants the US...
Metro Nashville officials expect there will be no increased revenue next budget year...
In 2018 and 2019, 20% and 19% of students in Nevada were chronically absent, through...
Top-line estimates of COVID-19 aid fraud are now at $1 trillion, according to LexisNexis...
Everyday, we highlight one quick, blood-boiling example of taxpayer abuse at the...
The U.S. national debt is soon expected to pass $35 trillion yet both Democrats and...
Tennessee is getting more than three times as much in federal earmarks as it received...
Nevada is getting $194 million in federal earmarks for 108 projects throughout the...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday announced new findings in his research on COVID-19...
House Republicans opened the earmark door with a secret caucus vote three years ago....
Metro Nashville staffed traveled to Atlanta, Kansas City, DC, Memphis, Phoenix, and...
The "fiscal conservative" earmarks dwarfed the $224 million from The Squad.
Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus requested nearly $1 billion in pork-barrel...
If anything should finally force a public up-or-down vote on earmarks, it’s the haul...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Congress is in the middle of passing spending bills to fund the...
In 2022, Metro Nashville's schools spent $1.8 million on what it deems “information...
A new tool utilizing a chatbot by OpenTheBooks allows anyone to track how their government...
OpenTheBooks found that Congress’ far-left “Squad” has secured $224 million in earmark...
University spokesperson Brian Coy misled national media about how much DEI was costing...
The revelation this month that the University of Virginia has been spending $20 million...
Scientists and Doctors who worked for the federal government received hundreds of...
Clark County schools are spending less per student than other districts of similar...
EXCLUSIVE — Top DEI staffers at the University of Virginia appeared to downplay outside...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Stakeholders and organizations are applauding U.S. Senator Rand...
The University of Florida recently announced it would end the diversity, equity,...
Sunshine Week is all about transparency in government.
Optional language in Rhode Island DEI bill is a ruse, given state's use of guidance...
“The University of Virginia (UVA) has at least 235 employees under its ‘diversity,...
Vote-buying schemes have defined the Democrat party ever since FDR’s “chicken in...
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Controversial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are coming under intense...
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The University of Virginia’s sprawling efforts to expand the left-wing diversity,...
It takes tuition payments from nearly 1,000 undergraduates just to pay their base...
Known as ‘The Squad,’ a group of progressive- democratic socialists in Congress have...
UVA FOIA production.
It’s the report that no one in Washington D.C. wants to talk about.
Medicare and Social Security are facing a substantial underfunding crisis, amounting...
Medicare and Social Security are in big trouble as it is now underfunded by a staggering...
In its most recent Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Nashville had $5.7 billion...
The federal government spent $8.5 million of your money on producing dozens of podcasts...
It’s big business. And funding episodes on erotic ecologies, queer farming, trans...
These $3.4 billion vendor payments went to 3rd party vendors.
The production of podcasts has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $8.5 million since early...
With the recent debut of Comptroller Bill Henry’s Baltimore City Open Checkbook website,...
Since 2017, $1.3 billion in taxpayer dollars flowed to the adversarial nations of...
Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service members.
Department of Defense’s first-ever diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) education...
DODEA can’t seem to shake the agency’s culture of secrecy and deception, according...
DoDEA has deeply betrayed the trust of the American people, and more importantly,...
Among the many burdens that skyrocketing illegal immigration forces upon American...
Twenty-three non-compliant charities are still receiving public funding despite not...
WASHINGTON (CITC) — The Pentagon is continuing to covertly include elements of diversity,...
City records reveal that millions of tax dollars are being funneled to Baltimore...
GOP Senators blocked a hidden migration bailout for the Democrats’ sanctuary cities...
The city manager of Boseman, Montana is under fire for comments he made about Austin,...
Biden Administration re-started Palestinian aid by pumping $1.2 billion through the...
OpenTheBooks.com report details a billion tax dollars sent to UN agency whose employees...
PHOENIX (TND) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., has reportedly spent more than $200,000...
Sen. Joni Ernst & Rep. Mike Gallagher are demanding the Defense Department’s inspector...
Right now, many voters say the migrant crisis is among the most important issue in...
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst drafted and championed the China Audit, quantifying taxpayer...
A recent investigation found some prominent Maryland charities collecting thousands...
An all-time high in illegal entrants at the border creates all-time surge in taxpayer...
Houston-DFW rail line had cost estimates increase from $10B to $30B; a partnership...
A private Texas high-speed rail venture is resurrected from the dead by the feds.
WASHINGTON (TND) — New regulations by the Biden administration are on track to cost...
Biden spent six times more on "sue and settle" fees than Trump in their first years.
An influential liberal dark money group propping up anti-Israel activism across the...
OpenTheBooks was cited in Sen. Rand Paul's 2023 waste report!
In an era marked by rising tuition costs and the pursuit of higher education as a...
A federal jury convicted a former Atlanta assistant city attorney Wednesday for defrauding...
There's no public purpose for this six-figure grant being underwritten by the American...
Colleges and universities need to step up and ensure the safety of their students...
The situation should make taxpayers wonder.
One city dealing with the fallout of all this is Baltimore, Maryland, where nearly...
In 2022 and 2023, case reports of human waste in the public way spiked to all-time...
The extent of political influence money can buy in Washington is coming under question...
The U.S. tax code and federal contracts swell the coffers of wealthy Ivy League universities...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held up a map of human waste in San Francisco at the...
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...
Pushed harmful teen sex and suicide messaging – even on episodes aired during the...
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...
Sixty-five billion dollars, that's how much our country's wealthiest universities...
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...
The lawmakers want to know more about the agency's settlements with environmental...
As budget battles heat up on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are working to disarm the IRS.
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...
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.
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...
Millions of American taxpayer dollars are going to high speed internet. Congress...
We revealed 100 pages of evidence that UNRWA schools taught hate toward Jewish people,...
U.S. Mideast peace negotiators felt that freezing aid to Palestinians was disrespectful....
Restoring earmarks in today's Congress would be like opening a bar tab for a bunch...
U.S.-Palestinian over the last seven decades has cost taxpayers around $8 billion...
While Congress is busy playing musical chairs with the House speaker’s position,...
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...
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...
Amtrak released a portion of its payroll information, marking the first instance...
In 2022, their president made $593,000. Debra L. McCurdy, Ph.D. was the second most...
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...
More than three years after the start of the pandemic new reports continue finding...
The Department of Energy invested $1.2 billion to vacuum greenhouse gases from the...
A program in California is raising red flags dealing with gender school training...
Should taxpayers pick up the cost of maintaining mostly empty buildings in Washington?
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...
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.
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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) received approximately $325 million in royalty...
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.
Big-Pharma, Chinese and Russian companies, and nefarious characters from around the...
WASHINGTON (TND) — It has been a rocky week for America's credit after being downgraded...
Why are taxpayer dollars flowing to adversarial nations?
The American people deserve to see who's "in" and who's "out" on earmarks. No secrets.
A new comprehensive investigative report shows the billions of taxpayer dollars going...
Teenagers have been breaking into closed city swimming pools this summer. Many have...
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...
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...
Seven of the top 10 lawmakers who used earmarks recently are Senate Republicans,...
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.
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...
After a ten-year ban, a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans in Congress...
Sen. Joni Ernst and OpenTheBooks.com: Your tax dollars are trickling down to everything...
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...
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 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
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.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, Section A, as a full page national display...
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...
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...
'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...
Federal funding to sponsor unaccompanied minors at the southern border reached an...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Clark County spent $1.5 million on training and travel-related expenses in fiscal...
Since the withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago, the U.S. has spent around $8...
The taxmen are armed to the teeth.
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...
Billions of dollars have been spent over the past few decades to arm federal agencies...
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...
Why does the IRS need five million rounds of ammunition?
We joined the Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer to discuss Dr. Fauci’s lockdowns...
Republican lawmakers want to stop the agency from purchasing more.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
Kelisa Wing is doubling down as her controversial children's books proliferate in...
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...
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...
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!
"Legalized" pay-to-play in California – the Newsom's create problems, "solve" them,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
More than 5,000 Southwest Airlines flights across the United States have been cancelled...
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...
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—...
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,...
7,500 earmarks for $16 billion are included in the latest year-end omnibus spending...
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...
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.
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...