Waste Of The Day: Earmark Ban Saved $141 Billion Over A Decade

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 previous ban on earmarks that lasted from 2011 to 2021 brought $141 billion in savings, according to new analysis from OpenTheBooks.com. It’s a crucial area of waste that […]

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Inside the Trump Resistance, Funded By The Ultra-Wealthy

Anti-Trump groups like ‘Families Over Billionaires present themselves as grassroots campaigns for ordinary Americans. The truth is very different. Days after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a group of former Joe Biden and Kamala Harris staffers came together to launch an effort to arouse the public against the GOP’s looming push to cut taxes

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DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into a Maze Impervious to Reform

) As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture.. The total amount of spending across “all agencies,” as

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Why The U.S. Continues To Kill Millions Of Hens Four Years Into Bird Flu Outbreak

The USDA’s effort to stamp out the virus has led to the loss of at least 166 million birds since the latest outbreak began in February 2022. The United States is entering its fourth year of a near-continuous outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza. Despite leadership changes at the country’s top agricultural and public

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Mr. President, Byron Donalds Is A Dangerous Choice For Florida Governor

  There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.  James Madison A centrally managed, centrally controlled Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a tool for coercion and control. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) We don’t know

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Why Can’t the Pentagon’s Army of Budget Bean Counters Shoot Straight?

o crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to track spending on lodging and entertainment. But so few officials used the Visa government travel charge card that nearly 4 million card transactions worth $1.2 billion couldn’t be reviewed in enough detail to check for misuse, abuse, and fraud, the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector

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DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into A Maze Impervious To Reform

As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. However, usaspending.gov is wrong in the biggest picture. The total spending across “all agencies,” as recorded at usaspending.gov, appears

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Analysis Of Trump – Zelensky “Free-For-All” From Two Real “Experts” On What And Why It Happened

We each drew our own conclusions about Friday’s Oval Office “free-for-all” between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski. I watched it live. When the Legacy Media pundits began to spin their “realities” to their loyal minions, I was curious to see and hear how my thoughts compared to theirs. Needless to say, mine were

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