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Aug 8, 2025
Topline: Megan C. Ryan, former CEO of the public Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island, New York, authorized a $3.5 million payout of taxpayer funds to herself and 12...
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Aug 7, 2025
Topline: Critics often target taxpayer-funded artwork as a waste of federal funding, and the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, is one of the best examples.
The...
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Aug 6, 2025
Topline: The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544 million of improper payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the SBA has not...
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Aug 5, 2025
Topline: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and her staff spent $288,146 on their taxpayer-funded credit card in fiscal year 2024, partially to fund trips to Paris, St....
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Aug 4, 2025
Topline: Over the last decade, more than half the Senate office furniture purchased have some unanswered question attached to them — including where the furniture is...
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Aug 1, 2025
Topline: Migrant encounters at the Texas border are at historic lows not seen since the 1960s, but the state still plans to give its its Operation Lone Star $1.7 billion per year in...
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Jul 31, 2025
Topline: The nonprofit One Economy Corporation received a $28.3 million federal grant in 2011 to improve internet access for low-income families, but the nonprofit used some of it to...
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Jul 30, 2025
Topline: The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted this June to stop construction of a new event center, but the county has already sunk $36 million into the project,...
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Jul 29, 2025
Topline: America will turn 250 years old next year, and taxpayers will fund one of the most expensive birthday gifts in history.
President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill...
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Jul 28, 2025
Topline: An estimated 37% of Medicare patients received a “low-value” health care service in 2023, costing the federal government $5.9 billion.
Key facts: The numbers...
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Jul 25, 2025
Topline: Erin Elmore, director of the State Department’s “Art in Embassies” program, has vowed to “Make Art Great Again,” and taxpayers will be footing...
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Jul 24, 2025
Topline: There are very few requirements to receive a Residential Clean Energy tax credit from the Internal Revenue Service. One, own a home. Two, install solar panels or another...
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Jul 23, 2025
Topline: Johnny Appleseed is responsible for the poor fraud controls in the Nevada Department of Transportation.
Or at least, someone pretending to be Johnny Appleseed. One employee...
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Jul 22, 2025
Topline: In 2024, only one White House staffer made more than $195,000 in the Biden administration.
Now, there are 35 people making more than $195,000 in President Donald...
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Jul 21, 2025
Topline: Kerr County, Texas asked the state for eight years to pay for an upgrade to its flood warning system before a deadly flood killed at least 120 people across the state...
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Jul 18, 2025
Topline: Even Secret Service agents need to use the bathroom, and that includes when they are protecting President Donald Trump during his taxpayer-funded golf trips.
But for the...
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Jul 17, 2025
Topline: In 2011, researchers from Pennsylvania State University used a $1.3 million federal grant to install televisions and electrical generators in seven remote villages in...
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Jul 16, 2025
Topline: Los Angeles County had 134 lifeguards who earned more than $200,000 in salary and benefits last year, costing taxpayers $70.8 million for the 1,500 lifegurads.
Key facts:...
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Jul 15, 2025
Topline: A law from 1935 that dictates how the Social Security trust fund invests its money could be causing the government to miss out on hundreds of billions of dollars of...
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Jul 14, 2025
Topline: The Indiana Economic Development Corporation recently approved $168 million in tax breaks for four data centers, but the state refuses to tell the public which companies...
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Jul 11, 2025
Topline: The planned renovation of the Federal Reserve’s office buildings will cost $2.5 billion and include rooftop gardens, skylights, water displays and more, according to...
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Jul 10, 2025
Topline: The City of Los Angeles received a $1 million federal grant to help its homeless and low-income populations in 2011, but the city probably could have found a more...
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Jul 9, 2025
Topline: The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system that the GSA inspector...
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Jul 8, 2025
Topline: The five inhabited U.S. territories are collectively $57.8 billion in debt and have issues with their financial statements that “can lead to poor financial decisions...
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Jul 7, 2025
Topline: Something is off about the math in Honolulu’s police department corruption scandal, and taxpayers will be left shortchanged.
Former city officials admitting...
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Jul 4, 2025
Topline: Maryland State Sen. James Rosapepe justified the new state budget’s sweeping tax and fee increases by claiming that “Maryland is under attack from...
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Jul 3, 2025
Topline: For “SimSim Hamara” — the Pakistani version of Sesame Street — the word of the day is “fraud.”
Or at least it was in 2012, when the U.S....
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Jul 2, 2025
Topline: A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is not.
Yet...
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Jul 1, 2025
Topline: State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, according to a new...
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Jun 30, 2025
Topline: The City of Los Angeles recently took out a $5 million loan to pay for police overtime during the protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and it’s...
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Jun 27, 2025
Topline: Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the California state...
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Jun 26, 2025
Topline: The corner of Randolph and State Streets in central Chicago looks perfectly ordinary, but only because the pavement covers up the bureaucratic mess hidden below the...
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Jun 25, 2025
Topline: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he “looks forward” to signing into law a $350 million subsidy for the nuclear energy industry after the state legislature passed the...
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Jun 24, 2025
Topline: The United States gave $960 million in foreign aid to Kenya in 2024, but the country’s auditor-general, Nancy Gathungu, says Kenya is struggling to use the money it...
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Jun 23, 2025
Summary: Most Americans would likely be happy with any job that pays $283,000 per year, let alone one that allows them to take a months-long international cruise while on the...
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Jun 20, 2025
Topline: Fraudsters stole an estimated $79 billion from the federal government using fake Social Security numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The crime was “readily...
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Jun 19, 2025
Topline: The national debt is approaching $37 trillion, yet for years the U.S. has been handing out foreign aid to countries it owes money to. In fiscal year 2010, America spent $1.4...
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Jun 18, 2025
Topline: Alabama legalized medical marijuana in 2021. Since then, the state has spent over $7.8 million rolling out the program, including over $1.4 million in legal fees for court...
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Jun 17, 2025
Topline: Massachusetts’ Emergency Assistance Family Shelter Program recently funded what might just be history’s most expensive car trip: $140 for a taxi ride of 223...
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Jun 16, 2025
Topline: Nashville spent $1.2 million to buy 108 quarantine housing pods in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the shelters were never used. Now the city plans to give 25 of them...
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Jun 13, 2025
Topline: The City of Austin’s fire department spent an all-time high on overtime pay in 2024 after years of audits and supervision from the City Council designed to reduce the...
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Jun 12, 2025
Topline: The word “conservation” usually applies to wildlife or the environment, but in 2011, the federal government spent $113,277 on a conservation survey of 6,900...
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Jun 11, 2025
Topline: OpenTheBooks.com’s team of auditors has identified three professional societies whose taxpayer-funded grants and contracts should be reviewed from the Department of...
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Jun 10, 2025
Topline: The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management violated the Payment Integrity Information Act by publishing inaccurate...
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Jun 9, 2025
Topline: The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $714 million paying outside contractors to take care of houses and condominiums owned by the federal government in...
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Jun 6, 2025
Topline: An annex to California’s Capitol Building was supposed to cost $543 million, but the price has doubled to $1.1 billion and now includes hallways designed to hide...
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Jun 5, 2025
Topline: A “rock house” sounds more like something out of The Flintstones than an actual federal building, but the government still spent $530,000 to turn the abandoned...
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Jun 4, 2025
Topline: The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Affairs health clinic has a $2 billion annual budget, but its three buildings have “unlabeled broken equipment, dirty and...
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Jun 3, 2025
Topline: The Consumer Product Safety Commission wasted $3.9 million by “actively rejecting” recommendations to improve cost efficiency at its office buildings, according...
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Jun 2, 2025
Topline: President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may be...
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May 30, 2025
Topline: There are only 10 members of Nebraska’s Wheat Board, but the committee still managed to spend almost $17,000 on meals from January 2023 to February 2025, according to...
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May 29, 2025
Topline: Most neighborhoods in America have no shortage of diners and restaurants serving breakfast, so it’s anyone’s guess why the federal government spent $766,000 to...
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May 28, 2025
Topline: President Donald Trump is often in the headlines for the millions of dollars taxpayers spend to fund his golf trips, but he’s far from the only one enjoying the...
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May 27, 2025
Topline: Baltimore City Public Schools are consistently among the worst-performing in the nation, but that hasn’t stopped the district from beefing up its payroll with scores...
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May 26, 2025
Topline: A former Government Accountability Office executive recently told 60 Minutes she believes the federal government loses $550 billion to $750 billion to fraud each year, an...
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May 23, 2025
Topline: Taxpayers should already be familiar with the $230 million cost to build a Gazan pier for humanitarian assistance — which began falling apart almost immediately last...
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May 22, 2025
Topline: In 2011, the Air Force made the wise decision to stop a wind turbine construction project at a station in Alaska after an audit found the turbines might never be...
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May 21, 2025
Topline: Arizona has recovered only 5% of the $2.5 billion it lost in a Medicaid fraud scheme that contributed to 40 deaths and allowed substance abuse patients to keep using alcohol...
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May 20, 2025
Topline: The U.S. Army plans to spend between $25 million and $45 million on a parade in Washington D.C., and that’s just the start of the expense. The dollar total will likely...
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May 19, 2025
Topline: California’s high-speed rail line has more than tripled in price from $40 billion to $128 billion, causing President Donald Trump to rescind $4 billion in federal...
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May 16, 2025
Topline: The Maryland Department of Health has spent $7 million in federal funds on its True You Maryland program, which taught kids about “fat pride” and used a...
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May 15, 2025
Topline: In 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lifted a US. ban on Pakistani mango exports and said she looked forward to helping the country ship more fruit...
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May 14, 2025
Topline: The Department of Government Efficiency says it has cut $165 billion of wasteful spending from the federal government, based on its self-reported numbers. It’s a...
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May 13, 2025
Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have...
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May 13, 2025
Topline: National Public Radio frequently claims that less than 1% of its funding comes from the federal government, an argument used to criticize President Donald Trump’s...
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May 12, 2025
Topline: Since 2017, Harvard University has received more money from the federal government than from its own students’ tuition, according to OpenTheBooks’ review of...
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May 9, 2025
Topline: The IRS estimated in December 2024 that its new Direct File tax return system would cost the government $61.1 million for an estimated 2.3 million users, or about $27...
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May 8, 2025
Topline: From 1976 to 2012, politicians took the phrase “political party” a bit too literally by using taxpayer funds to help pay for the stages, confetti, balloons,...
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May 7, 2025
Topline: Confessing to a decade of bribery is apparently not a disqualifying factor for doing business with the City of New York. Eight companies that publicly admitted to...
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May 6, 2025
Topline: The Small Business Administration has still not tried to recoup $4.6 billion of loans issued during the Covid-19 pandemic that were flagged as potentially fraudulent,...
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May 5, 2025
Topline: Florida House Republicans were investigating a deal struck by Gov. Ron DeSantis that resulted in $10 million of Medicaid funds going to a charity his wife runs, according to...
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May 2, 2025
Topline: President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money 10% faster than Joe Biden was at this time last year, according to daily financial statements released by the U.S....
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May 1, 2025
Topline: New York City residents might find the current mayoral race, which currently features former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Mayor Eric Adams — two officials with...
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Apr 30, 2025
Topline: The Houston Independent School District is facing a budget deficit that at one point reached $250 million, but that did not stop Superintendent Mike Miles from accepting a...
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Apr 29, 2025
Topline: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History spent $18 million on its “Entertainment Nation” exhibit, which displayed a mask supposedly worn by...
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Apr 28, 2025
Topline: The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico is stonewalling the public from viewing a series of internal investigations the local inspector general says "deal with fraud, waste, or...
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Apr 22, 2025
Topline: Every journey starts with a single step, but the cost of each step isn't usually $935,000.
That’s how much New York State will spend to repair each of the 77 stairs...
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Apr 21, 2025
Topline: A nonprofit that has received $31.8 million in federal grant money since 2004 used funds to teach children about sex toys and encouraged them to hide the information from...
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Apr 18, 2025
Topline: Ten state-level agencies accidentally overpaid $10.4 billion — and possibly much more — to people filing for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Apr 17, 2025
Topline: Congressional salaries and office space already cost taxpayers a bundle. Yet few realize that the speaker of the House gets to keep their office space, staff and budget for...
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Apr 16, 2025
Topline: There’s no denying that the federal government needs to sell many of its buildings. It would cost $370 billion to repair all of them, while they were only 12% occupied...
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Apr 15, 2025
Topline: A bill that passed the Indiana state legislature on April 1 will make it harder for public employees to buy luxury cars with taxpayer money, but it’s too late to...
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Apr 14, 2025
Topline: Local residents and environmental advocates have banded together to oppose California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $20 billion water tunnel in the Sacramento-San...
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Apr 11, 2025
Topline: If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that is not available under...
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Apr 10, 2025
Topline: The Spanish-American War ended in 1898, but it took over a century for Congress to completely stop charging a telephone tax created to fund it. The tax was finally...
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Apr 9, 2025
Topline: Spending at the Department of Agriculture increased by 339% between 2000 and 2024, while staff numbers fell, OpenTheBooks found in its third and final review of federal...
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Apr 8, 2025
Topline: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, one of seven small agencies ordered to reduce its workforce in President Donald Trump’s March 15 executive order, had a...
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Apr 7, 2025
Topline: States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, according to a report from...
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Apr 4, 2025
Topline: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent $20 million on several contracts and grants centered around diversity, equity and inclusion between 2021 and 2024,...
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Apr 3, 2025
Topline: Back in 2010, local officials in the City of Lynn, Massachusetts bragged to The Daily Item about an “inexpensive” way to beautify their own city: use federal...
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Apr 2, 2025
Topline: The U.S. contributed to over $1 billion spent promoting shrimp farming in foreign countries from 1998 to 2023, which members of Congress say may have violated a federal law...
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Apr 1, 2025
Topline: New York City is one of the world’s premier tourist destinations, and visitors attending the soccer World Cup next year will likely have no trouble finding ways to...
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Mar 31, 2025
Topline: There were 956 federal employees who made more than the president of the United States in 2024. It’s the highest number by far in OpenTheBooks’ payroll records...
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Mar 28, 2025
Topline: An independent auditing agency found it impossible to track the $2.3 billion the county and city of Los Angeles spent on homeless services last year, according to a report...
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Mar 27, 2025
Topline: The City of Bell, California faced several scandals in the 2010s, culminating in corruption convictions for City Administrator Robert Rizzo and six other officials.
The...
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Mar 25, 2025
Topline: Boeing, the engineering company behind the failed mission that left two astronauts stranded in space, received $6.4 billion in contracts from NASA between fiscal years 2021...
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Mar 24, 2025
Topline: Orange County, Florida has recovered $3.2 million - and counting - that officials say former Elections Supervisor Glen Gilzean spent improperly, but there's still plenty...
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Mar 20, 2025
Topline: When the federal government can’t even get most cities to accept a grant for free, it’s a pretty good sign the grant money should have never been awarded in the...
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Mar 19, 2025
Topline: Congress is fond of ignoring current issues and pushing the problems onto future taxpayers. The philosophy is already causing issues at federal buildings, where backlogged...
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Mar 18, 2025
Topline: Oklahoma State University “violated state law” with its “significant issues in allocation and management” of $41 million of state funding, according...
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Mar 17, 2025
Topline: The Environmental Protection Agency is unable to track $651 million in grant funding after a nonprofit sent the money to credit unions across the country, the Washington...
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Mar 14, 2025
Topline: Rutgers University, the flagship state school in New Jersey, spent $10 million on payroll for 136 employees in DEI roles in 2023, according to payroll records obtained by...
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Mar 12, 2025
Topline: A Chinese lab is continuing to receive funds from the U.S. to conduct cruel studies on beagles, according to contracts obtained by the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project and...
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Mar 11, 2025
Topline: America’s 75 largest cities are collectively $300.7 billion in debt, according to the annual “State of the Cities” report from nonprofit fiscal...
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Mar 10, 2025
Topline: While the Department of Government Efficiency has taken aim at wasteful spending throughout the federal government, so far it has not set its sights on earmarks.
The...
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Mar 7, 2025
Topline: The City of Baltimore spent $2.9 million on “unauthorized procurements” in 2024, according to OpenTheBooks.com’ review of the city’s Board of...
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Mar 6, 2025
Topline: Plenty of Americans are willing to pay an extra dollar or two for toppings on their pizza, but $60,000 might be a steep price tag for some fresh herbs.
Yet that’s...
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Mar 5, 2025
Topline: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to spend $31.6 billion to protect customers at three failed banks in early 2023. While taxpayers footed the bill, the...
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Mar 4, 2025
Topline: The Biden administration gave Canadian electric bus maker The Lion Electric Company $160 million in subsidies to manufacture 435 buses for schools around the U.S. The...
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Mar 3, 2025
Topline: The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but its spending increased by 749% during that time, according to a new report...
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Feb 27, 2025
Topline: April showers bring May flowers — but in lieu of showers, $571 million of taxpayer funding will also do the trick.
The Department of Transportation spent that much on...
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Feb 27, 2025
Topline: The U.S. Agency for International Development sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s fifth-poorest...
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Feb 26, 2025
Topline: Victims of natural disasters deserve the best help possible, so it’s important for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to monitor the companies it hires and ensure...
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Feb 25, 2025
Topline: The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to an...
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Feb 24, 2025
Topline: The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020, according to...
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Feb 21, 2025
Topline: Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients and siphoning money...
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Feb 20, 2025
Topline: There are plenty of vulgar euphemisms one might lob against the federal government and its wasteful spending, but sometimes the headline just writes itself.
That was...
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Feb 19, 2025
Topline: Police officer Derek Chauvin is currently serving a 22-year jail sentence for second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd, but his misconduct in other incidents is...
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Feb 18, 2025
Topline: New York City angered its drivers with new “congestion pricing” for travel into Manhattan below 60th Street, but perhaps officials should be more focused on...
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Feb 17, 2025
Topline: The White House subscribes to POLITICO Pro, a premium service meant to inform the public what is happening inside the White House, spending $16 million since 2017, according...
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Feb 14, 2025
Topline: In the first few weeks of President Donald Trump’s second administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased deportations but illegal immigrants...
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Feb 13, 2025
Topline: If federal officials ever need an emergency escape route from the debt crisis they’ve created, they will be in luck. The Institute of Museum and Library Services has...
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Feb 12, 2025
Topline: All universities send emails and letters to their alumni in the hopes of securing donations for future students. Members of the House of Representatives are more than...
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Feb 11, 2025
Topline: The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s biannual...
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Feb 10, 2025
Topline: Alexander Eastman, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection acting chief medical officer, is accused of drinking while carrying a firearm and rewriting government purchasing...
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Feb 7, 2025
Topline: Alejandro Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden, was so generous with paid time off that t-shirts and collectible coins have declared...
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Feb 6, 2025
Topline: Less is more when it comes to writing, but government publishers might need to retake their English courses.
The Congressional Record has been available online since 2005,...
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Feb 5, 2025
Topline: Every November, OpenTheBooks’ auditors head to PaymentAccuracy.gov to review annual data about improper payments: money the government sends to the wrong person or for...
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Feb 4, 2025
Topline: A former Massachusetts official allegedly spent taxpayer funds on a framed portrait of himself, a recording he made at a music studio and much more, according to an...
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Feb 3, 2025
Topline: Elon Musk and the new Department of Government Efficiency have already backed down from their promise to cut $2 trillion in wasteful spending, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
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Jan 31, 2025
Topline: Instead of interviewing candidates to fill job openings, a government contractor has been hiring employees from its own parent companies, awarding them...
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Jan 30, 2025
Topline: The Department of Education has been in the headlines lately as some critics call it a waste of federal funds amid President Donald Trump’s promise to close it...
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Jan 29, 2025
Topline: Taxpayer-funded nonprofit homeless shelters in New York City are filled with nepotism and conflicts of interest, and their executives take home salaries of up to $1 million,...
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Jan 28, 2025
Topline: The Department of Defense purchased lobster tails, footrests and more during a September 2024 spending spree that saw $79.1 billion spent on grants and contracts.
It...
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Jan 27, 2025
Topline: Even before wildfires began destroying homes in Los Angeles on Jan. 7, the city’s fire department was aware that recent budget cuts could hurt its emergency...
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Jan 24, 2025
Topline: The City of Chicago is not liable in a lawsuit against Alderman Jim Gardiner, but the city has still agreed to pay $87,500, or 55% of the settlement. Gardiner will pay the...
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Jan 23, 2025
Topline: Federal education grants are meant to support American education, but there are several cases where foreign studies funding has instead brought adversarial influence into...
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Jan 22, 2025
Topline: Washington could reduce the federal deficit by $8.5 trillion in the next 10 years using 44 cost-cutting measures laid out in a Congressional Budget Office report from...
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Jan 21, 2025
Topline: New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has faced calls for her resignation after a terrorist attack on New Year’s Day left 14 dead.
Regardless of her...
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Jan 20, 2025
Topline: Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s road trip to promote electric vehicles may have had the opposite effect. She and her staff racked up unauthorized expenses for...
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Jan 16, 2025
Topline: In 2010, the City of Bothell, Washington used $260,000 of federal funds to build a pedestrian bridge across its North Creek just north of Seattle.
It would have been a great...
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Jan 15, 2025
Topline: The U.S. Department of Transportation gave $2.5 million in contracts to JetBlue in November and December, weeks before hitting the airline with a $2 million fine for its...
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Jan 14, 2025
Topline: An OpenTheBooks investigation into Ohio State University revealed millions of dollars in funding from China and Saudi Arabia, a slew of questionable federal grants and 201...
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Jan 13, 2025
Topline: Over 29% of federal contracts in fiscal year 2024 were noncompetitive awards, according to federal disclosures reviewed by OpenTheBooks.com.
Key facts: Government...
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Jan 10, 2025
Topline: A Texas judge threw out a lawsuit this December that would have prevented the City of Austin from building its new light rail line, which is 18 miles shorter and $2.3...
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Jan 8, 2025
Topline: Lieutenant Quathisha Epps worked a desk job at the New York City Police Department this year, but her $400,000 in earnings was more than every other officer, including the...
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Jan 8, 2025
Topline: In theory, only the best and brightest Americans make it into Harvard University. Unless, of course, government employees with taxpayer money at their disposal have anything...
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Jan 7, 2025
Topline: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his 10th annual “Festivus” report on Dec. 23, cataloging just over $1 trillion wasted by the federal government in 2024.
Modeled...
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Jan 6, 2025
Topline: Lil Wayne allegedly spent most of his $8.9 million Covid-19 relief grant on personal expenses like private jets, clothes, and “mystery women,” according to...
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Jan 3, 2025
Topline: A nonprofit law firm in southern Arizona misused almost $50,000 of government grants in 2021 and 2022, according to an investigation from the Legal Service...
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Jan 2, 2025
Topline: As lawmakers battle over how much to spend next year on disaster funding, it’s worth looking back at one of many instances where federal emergency funds didn’t...
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Jan 1, 2025
Topline: The United States government purchases an average of $5.2 billion of military supplies from foreign countries each year, but the Pentagon and Department of Commerce...
Aug 8, 2025Topline: Megan C. Ryan, former CEO of the public Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island, New York, authorized a $3.5 million payout of taxpayer funds to herself and 12...
Aug 7, 2025Topline: Critics often target taxpayer-funded artwork as a waste of federal funding, and the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, is one of the best examples. The...
Aug 6, 2025Topline: The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544 million of improper payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the SBA has not...
Aug 5, 2025Topline: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and her staff spent $288,146 on their taxpayer-funded credit card in fiscal year 2024, partially to fund trips to Paris, St....
Aug 4, 2025Topline: Over the last decade, more than half the Senate office furniture purchased have some unanswered question attached to them — including where the furniture is...
Aug 1, 2025Topline: Migrant encounters at the Texas border are at historic lows not seen since the 1960s, but the state still plans to give its its Operation Lone Star $1.7 billion per year in...
Jul 31, 2025Topline: The nonprofit One Economy Corporation received a $28.3 million federal grant in 2011 to improve internet access for low-income families, but the nonprofit used some of it to...
Jul 30, 2025Topline: The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted this June to stop construction of a new event center, but the county has already sunk $36 million into the project,...
Jul 29, 2025Topline: America will turn 250 years old next year, and taxpayers will fund one of the most expensive birthday gifts in history. President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill...
Jul 28, 2025Topline: An estimated 37% of Medicare patients received a “low-value” health care service in 2023, costing the federal government $5.9 billion. Key facts: The numbers...
Jul 25, 2025Topline: Erin Elmore, director of the State Department’s “Art in Embassies” program, has vowed to “Make Art Great Again,” and taxpayers will be footing...
Jul 24, 2025Topline: There are very few requirements to receive a Residential Clean Energy tax credit from the Internal Revenue Service. One, own a home. Two, install solar panels or another...
Jul 23, 2025Topline: Johnny Appleseed is responsible for the poor fraud controls in the Nevada Department of Transportation. Or at least, someone pretending to be Johnny Appleseed. One employee...
Jul 22, 2025Topline: In 2024, only one White House staffer made more than $195,000 in the Biden administration. Now, there are 35 people making more than $195,000 in President Donald...
Jul 18, 2025Topline: Even Secret Service agents need to use the bathroom, and that includes when they are protecting President Donald Trump during his taxpayer-funded golf trips. But for the...
Jul 17, 2025Topline: In 2011, researchers from Pennsylvania State University used a $1.3 million federal grant to install televisions and electrical generators in seven remote villages in...
Jul 16, 2025Topline: Los Angeles County had 134 lifeguards who earned more than $200,000 in salary and benefits last year, costing taxpayers $70.8 million for the 1,500 lifegurads. Key facts:...
Jul 15, 2025Topline: A law from 1935 that dictates how the Social Security trust fund invests its money could be causing the government to miss out on hundreds of billions of dollars of...
Jul 14, 2025Topline: The Indiana Economic Development Corporation recently approved $168 million in tax breaks for four data centers, but the state refuses to tell the public which companies...
Jul 11, 2025Topline: The planned renovation of the Federal Reserve’s office buildings will cost $2.5 billion and include rooftop gardens, skylights, water displays and more, according to...
Jul 10, 2025Topline: The City of Los Angeles received a $1 million federal grant to help its homeless and low-income populations in 2011, but the city probably could have found a more...
Jul 9, 2025Topline: The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system that the GSA inspector...
Jul 8, 2025Topline: The five inhabited U.S. territories are collectively $57.8 billion in debt and have issues with their financial statements that “can lead to poor financial decisions...
Jul 7, 2025Topline: Something is off about the math in Honolulu’s police department corruption scandal, and taxpayers will be left shortchanged. Former city officials admitting...
Jul 4, 2025Topline: Maryland State Sen. James Rosapepe justified the new state budget’s sweeping tax and fee increases by claiming that “Maryland is under attack from...
Jul 3, 2025Topline: For “SimSim Hamara” — the Pakistani version of Sesame Street — the word of the day is “fraud.” Or at least it was in 2012, when the U.S....
Jul 2, 2025Topline: A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is not. Yet...
Jul 1, 2025Topline: State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, according to a new...
Jun 30, 2025Topline: The City of Los Angeles recently took out a $5 million loan to pay for police overtime during the protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and it’s...
Jun 27, 2025Topline: Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the California state...
Jun 26, 2025Topline: The corner of Randolph and State Streets in central Chicago looks perfectly ordinary, but only because the pavement covers up the bureaucratic mess hidden below the...
Jun 25, 2025Topline: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he “looks forward” to signing into law a $350 million subsidy for the nuclear energy industry after the state legislature passed the...
Jun 24, 2025Topline: The United States gave $960 million in foreign aid to Kenya in 2024, but the country’s auditor-general, Nancy Gathungu, says Kenya is struggling to use the money it...
Jun 23, 2025Summary: Most Americans would likely be happy with any job that pays $283,000 per year, let alone one that allows them to take a months-long international cruise while on the...
Jun 20, 2025Topline: Fraudsters stole an estimated $79 billion from the federal government using fake Social Security numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The crime was “readily...
Jun 19, 2025Topline: The national debt is approaching $37 trillion, yet for years the U.S. has been handing out foreign aid to countries it owes money to. In fiscal year 2010, America spent $1.4...
Jun 18, 2025Topline: Alabama legalized medical marijuana in 2021. Since then, the state has spent over $7.8 million rolling out the program, including over $1.4 million in legal fees for court...
Jun 17, 2025Topline: Massachusetts’ Emergency Assistance Family Shelter Program recently funded what might just be history’s most expensive car trip: $140 for a taxi ride of 223...
Jun 16, 2025Topline: Nashville spent $1.2 million to buy 108 quarantine housing pods in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the shelters were never used. Now the city plans to give 25 of them...
Jun 13, 2025Topline: The City of Austin’s fire department spent an all-time high on overtime pay in 2024 after years of audits and supervision from the City Council designed to reduce the...
Jun 12, 2025Topline: The word “conservation” usually applies to wildlife or the environment, but in 2011, the federal government spent $113,277 on a conservation survey of 6,900...
Jun 11, 2025Topline: OpenTheBooks.com’s team of auditors has identified three professional societies whose taxpayer-funded grants and contracts should be reviewed from the Department of...
Jun 10, 2025Topline: The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management violated the Payment Integrity Information Act by publishing inaccurate...
Jun 9, 2025Topline: The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $714 million paying outside contractors to take care of houses and condominiums owned by the federal government in...
Jun 6, 2025Topline: An annex to California’s Capitol Building was supposed to cost $543 million, but the price has doubled to $1.1 billion and now includes hallways designed to hide...
Jun 5, 2025Topline: A “rock house” sounds more like something out of The Flintstones than an actual federal building, but the government still spent $530,000 to turn the abandoned...
Jun 4, 2025Topline: The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Affairs health clinic has a $2 billion annual budget, but its three buildings have “unlabeled broken equipment, dirty and...
Jun 3, 2025Topline: The Consumer Product Safety Commission wasted $3.9 million by “actively rejecting” recommendations to improve cost efficiency at its office buildings, according...
Jun 2, 2025Topline: President Donald Trump described the $400 million jet Qatar’s government gave to the U.S. as a “gift, free of charge” on Truth Social. The plane may be...
May 30, 2025Topline: There are only 10 members of Nebraska’s Wheat Board, but the committee still managed to spend almost $17,000 on meals from January 2023 to February 2025, according to...
May 29, 2025Topline: Most neighborhoods in America have no shortage of diners and restaurants serving breakfast, so it’s anyone’s guess why the federal government spent $766,000 to...
May 28, 2025Topline: President Donald Trump is often in the headlines for the millions of dollars taxpayers spend to fund his golf trips, but he’s far from the only one enjoying the...
May 27, 2025Topline: Baltimore City Public Schools are consistently among the worst-performing in the nation, but that hasn’t stopped the district from beefing up its payroll with scores...
May 26, 2025Topline: A former Government Accountability Office executive recently told 60 Minutes she believes the federal government loses $550 billion to $750 billion to fraud each year, an...
May 23, 2025Topline: Taxpayers should already be familiar with the $230 million cost to build a Gazan pier for humanitarian assistance — which began falling apart almost immediately last...
May 22, 2025Topline: In 2011, the Air Force made the wise decision to stop a wind turbine construction project at a station in Alaska after an audit found the turbines might never be...
May 21, 2025Topline: Arizona has recovered only 5% of the $2.5 billion it lost in a Medicaid fraud scheme that contributed to 40 deaths and allowed substance abuse patients to keep using alcohol...
May 20, 2025Topline: The U.S. Army plans to spend between $25 million and $45 million on a parade in Washington D.C., and that’s just the start of the expense. The dollar total will likely...
May 19, 2025Topline: California’s high-speed rail line has more than tripled in price from $40 billion to $128 billion, causing President Donald Trump to rescind $4 billion in federal...
May 16, 2025Topline: The Maryland Department of Health has spent $7 million in federal funds on its True You Maryland program, which taught kids about “fat pride” and used a...
May 15, 2025Topline: In 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lifted a US. ban on Pakistani mango exports and said she looked forward to helping the country ship more fruit...
May 14, 2025Topline: The Department of Government Efficiency says it has cut $165 billion of wasteful spending from the federal government, based on its self-reported numbers. It’s a...
May 13, 2025Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have...
May 13, 2025Topline: National Public Radio frequently claims that less than 1% of its funding comes from the federal government, an argument used to criticize President Donald Trump’s...
May 12, 2025Topline: Since 2017, Harvard University has received more money from the federal government than from its own students’ tuition, according to OpenTheBooks’ review of...
May 9, 2025Topline: The IRS estimated in December 2024 that its new Direct File tax return system would cost the government $61.1 million for an estimated 2.3 million users, or about $27...
May 8, 2025Topline: From 1976 to 2012, politicians took the phrase “political party” a bit too literally by using taxpayer funds to help pay for the stages, confetti, balloons,...
May 7, 2025Topline: Confessing to a decade of bribery is apparently not a disqualifying factor for doing business with the City of New York. Eight companies that publicly admitted to...
May 6, 2025Topline: The Small Business Administration has still not tried to recoup $4.6 billion of loans issued during the Covid-19 pandemic that were flagged as potentially fraudulent,...
May 5, 2025Topline: Florida House Republicans were investigating a deal struck by Gov. Ron DeSantis that resulted in $10 million of Medicaid funds going to a charity his wife runs, according to...
May 2, 2025Topline: President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money 10% faster than Joe Biden was at this time last year, according to daily financial statements released by the U.S....
May 1, 2025Topline: New York City residents might find the current mayoral race, which currently features former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Mayor Eric Adams — two officials with...
Apr 30, 2025Topline: The Houston Independent School District is facing a budget deficit that at one point reached $250 million, but that did not stop Superintendent Mike Miles from accepting a...
Apr 29, 2025Topline: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History spent $18 million on its “Entertainment Nation” exhibit, which displayed a mask supposedly worn by...
Apr 28, 2025Topline: The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico is stonewalling the public from viewing a series of internal investigations the local inspector general says "deal with fraud, waste, or...
Apr 22, 2025Topline: Every journey starts with a single step, but the cost of each step isn't usually $935,000. That’s how much New York State will spend to repair each of the 77 stairs...
Apr 21, 2025Topline: A nonprofit that has received $31.8 million in federal grant money since 2004 used funds to teach children about sex toys and encouraged them to hide the information from...
Apr 18, 2025Topline: Ten state-level agencies accidentally overpaid $10.4 billion — and possibly much more — to people filing for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Apr 17, 2025Topline: Congressional salaries and office space already cost taxpayers a bundle. Yet few realize that the speaker of the House gets to keep their office space, staff and budget for...
Apr 16, 2025Topline: There’s no denying that the federal government needs to sell many of its buildings. It would cost $370 billion to repair all of them, while they were only 12% occupied...
Apr 15, 2025Topline: A bill that passed the Indiana state legislature on April 1 will make it harder for public employees to buy luxury cars with taxpayer money, but it’s too late to...
Apr 14, 2025Topline: Local residents and environmental advocates have banded together to oppose California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $20 billion water tunnel in the Sacramento-San...
Apr 11, 2025Topline: If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that is not available under...
Apr 10, 2025Topline: The Spanish-American War ended in 1898, but it took over a century for Congress to completely stop charging a telephone tax created to fund it. The tax was finally...
Apr 9, 2025Topline: Spending at the Department of Agriculture increased by 339% between 2000 and 2024, while staff numbers fell, OpenTheBooks found in its third and final review of federal...
Apr 8, 2025Topline: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, one of seven small agencies ordered to reduce its workforce in President Donald Trump’s March 15 executive order, had a...
Apr 7, 2025Topline: States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, according to a report from...
Apr 4, 2025Topline: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent $20 million on several contracts and grants centered around diversity, equity and inclusion between 2021 and 2024,...
Apr 3, 2025Topline: Back in 2010, local officials in the City of Lynn, Massachusetts bragged to The Daily Item about an “inexpensive” way to beautify their own city: use federal...
Apr 2, 2025Topline: The U.S. contributed to over $1 billion spent promoting shrimp farming in foreign countries from 1998 to 2023, which members of Congress say may have violated a federal law...
Apr 1, 2025Topline: New York City is one of the world’s premier tourist destinations, and visitors attending the soccer World Cup next year will likely have no trouble finding ways to...
Mar 31, 2025Topline: There were 956 federal employees who made more than the president of the United States in 2024. It’s the highest number by far in OpenTheBooks’ payroll records...
Mar 28, 2025Topline: An independent auditing agency found it impossible to track the $2.3 billion the county and city of Los Angeles spent on homeless services last year, according to a report...
Mar 27, 2025Topline: The City of Bell, California faced several scandals in the 2010s, culminating in corruption convictions for City Administrator Robert Rizzo and six other officials. The...
Mar 25, 2025Topline: Boeing, the engineering company behind the failed mission that left two astronauts stranded in space, received $6.4 billion in contracts from NASA between fiscal years 2021...
Mar 24, 2025Topline: Orange County, Florida has recovered $3.2 million - and counting - that officials say former Elections Supervisor Glen Gilzean spent improperly, but there's still plenty...
Mar 20, 2025Topline: When the federal government can’t even get most cities to accept a grant for free, it’s a pretty good sign the grant money should have never been awarded in the...
Mar 19, 2025Topline: Congress is fond of ignoring current issues and pushing the problems onto future taxpayers. The philosophy is already causing issues at federal buildings, where backlogged...
Mar 18, 2025Topline: Oklahoma State University “violated state law” with its “significant issues in allocation and management” of $41 million of state funding, according...
Mar 17, 2025Topline: The Environmental Protection Agency is unable to track $651 million in grant funding after a nonprofit sent the money to credit unions across the country, the Washington...
Mar 14, 2025Topline: Rutgers University, the flagship state school in New Jersey, spent $10 million on payroll for 136 employees in DEI roles in 2023, according to payroll records obtained by...
Mar 12, 2025Topline: A Chinese lab is continuing to receive funds from the U.S. to conduct cruel studies on beagles, according to contracts obtained by the nonprofit White Coat Waste Project and...
Mar 11, 2025Topline: America’s 75 largest cities are collectively $300.7 billion in debt, according to the annual “State of the Cities” report from nonprofit fiscal...
Mar 10, 2025Topline: While the Department of Government Efficiency has taken aim at wasteful spending throughout the federal government, so far it has not set its sights on earmarks. The...
Mar 7, 2025Topline: The City of Baltimore spent $2.9 million on “unauthorized procurements” in 2024, according to OpenTheBooks.com’ review of the city’s Board of...
Mar 6, 2025Topline: Plenty of Americans are willing to pay an extra dollar or two for toppings on their pizza, but $60,000 might be a steep price tag for some fresh herbs. Yet that’s...
Mar 5, 2025Topline: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to spend $31.6 billion to protect customers at three failed banks in early 2023. While taxpayers footed the bill, the...
Mar 4, 2025Topline: The Biden administration gave Canadian electric bus maker The Lion Electric Company $160 million in subsidies to manufacture 435 buses for schools around the U.S. The...
Mar 3, 2025Topline: The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but its spending increased by 749% during that time, according to a new report...
Feb 27, 2025Topline: April showers bring May flowers — but in lieu of showers, $571 million of taxpayer funding will also do the trick. The Department of Transportation spent that much on...
Feb 27, 2025Topline: The U.S. Agency for International Development sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s fifth-poorest...
Feb 26, 2025Topline: Victims of natural disasters deserve the best help possible, so it’s important for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to monitor the companies it hires and ensure...
Feb 25, 2025Topline: The Inflation Reduction Act could be three times as expensive as originally believed, while falling short of its goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to an...
Feb 24, 2025Topline: The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020, according to...
Feb 21, 2025Topline: Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients and siphoning money...
Feb 20, 2025Topline: There are plenty of vulgar euphemisms one might lob against the federal government and its wasteful spending, but sometimes the headline just writes itself. That was...
Feb 19, 2025Topline: Police officer Derek Chauvin is currently serving a 22-year jail sentence for second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd, but his misconduct in other incidents is...
Feb 18, 2025Topline: New York City angered its drivers with new “congestion pricing” for travel into Manhattan below 60th Street, but perhaps officials should be more focused on...
Feb 17, 2025Topline: The White House subscribes to POLITICO Pro, a premium service meant to inform the public what is happening inside the White House, spending $16 million since 2017, according...
Feb 14, 2025Topline: In the first few weeks of President Donald Trump’s second administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased deportations but illegal immigrants...
Feb 13, 2025Topline: If federal officials ever need an emergency escape route from the debt crisis they’ve created, they will be in luck. The Institute of Museum and Library Services has...
Feb 12, 2025Topline: All universities send emails and letters to their alumni in the hopes of securing donations for future students. Members of the House of Representatives are more than...
Feb 11, 2025Topline: The federal deficit will be $21.1 trillion in the 10-year period from 2025 to 2034, according to projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s biannual...
Feb 10, 2025Topline: Alexander Eastman, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection acting chief medical officer, is accused of drinking while carrying a firearm and rewriting government purchasing...
Feb 7, 2025Topline: Alejandro Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security under Joe Biden, was so generous with paid time off that t-shirts and collectible coins have declared...
Feb 6, 2025Topline: Less is more when it comes to writing, but government publishers might need to retake their English courses. The Congressional Record has been available online since 2005,...
Feb 5, 2025Topline: Every November, OpenTheBooks’ auditors head to PaymentAccuracy.gov to review annual data about improper payments: money the government sends to the wrong person or for...
Feb 4, 2025Topline: A former Massachusetts official allegedly spent taxpayer funds on a framed portrait of himself, a recording he made at a music studio and much more, according to an...
Feb 3, 2025Topline: Elon Musk and the new Department of Government Efficiency have already backed down from their promise to cut $2 trillion in wasteful spending, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
Jan 31, 2025Topline: Instead of interviewing candidates to fill job openings, a government contractor has been hiring employees from its own parent companies, awarding them...
Jan 30, 2025Topline: The Department of Education has been in the headlines lately as some critics call it a waste of federal funds amid President Donald Trump’s promise to close it...
Jan 29, 2025Topline: Taxpayer-funded nonprofit homeless shelters in New York City are filled with nepotism and conflicts of interest, and their executives take home salaries of up to $1 million,...
Jan 28, 2025Topline: The Department of Defense purchased lobster tails, footrests and more during a September 2024 spending spree that saw $79.1 billion spent on grants and contracts. It...
Jan 27, 2025Topline: Even before wildfires began destroying homes in Los Angeles on Jan. 7, the city’s fire department was aware that recent budget cuts could hurt its emergency...
Jan 24, 2025Topline: The City of Chicago is not liable in a lawsuit against Alderman Jim Gardiner, but the city has still agreed to pay $87,500, or 55% of the settlement. Gardiner will pay the...
Jan 23, 2025Topline: Federal education grants are meant to support American education, but there are several cases where foreign studies funding has instead brought adversarial influence into...
Jan 22, 2025Topline: Washington could reduce the federal deficit by $8.5 trillion in the next 10 years using 44 cost-cutting measures laid out in a Congressional Budget Office report from...
Jan 21, 2025Topline: New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has faced calls for her resignation after a terrorist attack on New Year’s Day left 14 dead. Regardless of her...
Jan 20, 2025Topline: Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s road trip to promote electric vehicles may have had the opposite effect. She and her staff racked up unauthorized expenses for...
Jan 16, 2025Topline: In 2010, the City of Bothell, Washington used $260,000 of federal funds to build a pedestrian bridge across its North Creek just north of Seattle. It would have been a great...
Jan 15, 2025Topline: The U.S. Department of Transportation gave $2.5 million in contracts to JetBlue in November and December, weeks before hitting the airline with a $2 million fine for its...
Jan 14, 2025Topline: An OpenTheBooks investigation into Ohio State University revealed millions of dollars in funding from China and Saudi Arabia, a slew of questionable federal grants and 201...
Jan 13, 2025Topline: Over 29% of federal contracts in fiscal year 2024 were noncompetitive awards, according to federal disclosures reviewed by OpenTheBooks.com. Key facts: Government...
Jan 10, 2025Topline: A Texas judge threw out a lawsuit this December that would have prevented the City of Austin from building its new light rail line, which is 18 miles shorter and $2.3...
Jan 8, 2025Topline: Lieutenant Quathisha Epps worked a desk job at the New York City Police Department this year, but her $400,000 in earnings was more than every other officer, including the...
Jan 8, 2025Topline: In theory, only the best and brightest Americans make it into Harvard University. Unless, of course, government employees with taxpayer money at their disposal have anything...
Jan 7, 2025Topline: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his 10th annual “Festivus” report on Dec. 23, cataloging just over $1 trillion wasted by the federal government in 2024. Modeled...
Jan 6, 2025Topline: Lil Wayne allegedly spent most of his $8.9 million Covid-19 relief grant on personal expenses like private jets, clothes, and “mystery women,” according to...
Jan 3, 2025Topline: A nonprofit law firm in southern Arizona misused almost $50,000 of government grants in 2021 and 2022, according to an investigation from the Legal Service...
Jan 2, 2025Topline: As lawmakers battle over how much to spend next year on disaster funding, it’s worth looking back at one of many instances where federal emergency funds didn’t...
Jan 1, 2025Topline: The United States government purchases an average of $5.2 billion of military supplies from foreign countries each year, but the Pentagon and Department of Commerce...