Open the Books

Each year in Washington, D.C., watchdog organizations pore through congressional spending to find outrageous budget appropriations tacked onto funding bills, called earmarks, which funnel money to a politician’s home district. ...

Local and community projects funded by tax money allocated by Congress, commonly known as “earmarks,” are often wasteful ...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff and budget are exploding under President Joe Biden as his administration seeks to ...

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom on June 13 to historic federal charges ...

Federal officials made more than $247 billion in improper payments in 2022, with more than half of the ...

Federal officials gave more than $23 billion in COVID-19 aid to the nation's top 20 nonprofit hospitals, even ...

Members of Congress from both parties appear headed to approving a record number of earmarks—tax-funded spending projects in ...

On Dec. 31, a decades-long saga came to an end—although that “end” is proving to be particularly beneficial ...

Federal officials forgave $809 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans handed out during the COVID-19 pandemic in ...

Small businesses seeking to increase their overseas sales are supposed to be the primary beneficiaries of loan guarantees ...

According to a new report that just came from the government watchdog agency responsible for overseeing the NIH, ...

Top Democratic leaders with oversight of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) are keeping quiet about the $350 ...

An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds ...

Aspen Institute employees contributed more than $800,000 to Democratic candidates and causes between 2017 and 2021, even as ...

Democratic mayors in 20 of the nation’s 25 biggest cities slashed police department budgets and positions even as ...

San Francisco’s London Breed is America’s highest-paid mayor—being paid a $342,974 salary, plus $109,447 in perks, for a ...

Federal departments and agencies shelled out more than $12.2 billion on Sept. 30, 2019, the last day of ...

America’s 82 top nonprofit hospital groups have experienced massive growth in annual revenues and asset value even as ...