After years of absence, some semblance of accountability may have finally begun to return to the scandal-plagued Department of Veterans Affairs with the reported firings of two of the VA’s most ethically challenged employees. Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation reports on the Inauguration Day firing of the VA’s most notorious bureaucrats….
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Every January, the Congressional Budget Office releases its Budget and Economic Forecast for the next 10 years, which in January 2017 covers the period from 2017 through 2027. The following chart shows what the CBO foresees for the portion of the U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding that is held by the public, which…
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In his second year after having taken over production of the annual Wastebook from former Senator Tom Coburn, Senator Jeff Flake has highlighted 50 ways in which the U.S. federal government’s bureaucrats have squandered taxpayer dollars. Here are five items that stood out from the pack, which we selected just because they involved animals….
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From the time when George Washington was sworn into office on March 4, 1789 as the first U.S. President under the U.S. Constitution through February 25, 2008 when George W. Bush was 11 months away from concluding his term in office as the 43rd U.S. President, it took nearly 219 years for the U.S….
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In 2009, as part of President Obama’s signature economic policy that was passed into law as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is more popularly known as the “stimulus package,” President Obama dedicated some $7 billion for the express purpose of improving academically failing schools through School Improvement Grants (SIG). In order to…
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Inauguration Day in Washington D.C. is a day where not much happens in the U.S. government, where we can expect the real work to begin after all the pomp, circumstance, speeches, protests and parties have faded into the background noise. Since Inauguration Day 2017 is falling on a Friday, that day will come around…
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Last December, the mayor and city council of Dallas, Texas, acted to stop a run on the city’s pension program for police officers and fire fighters, as it became increasingly clear that the fund was rapidly becoming insolvent. Last week, the city’s elected leaders made their termination of the lump sum withdrawals that retired…
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Last week, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a new budget resolution, an action that was followed by the House of Representatives a day later, as it approved the same 10-year blueprint for the future budget of the federal government. The measure is highly significant in two ways. First, it clears the legislative…
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This week, a three-judge panel of U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals laid down the law on whether government bureaucrats, in this case ones employed by Orange County, can have a free pass from having to comply with any sort of ethical standards of conduct while appearing in court as part of their official…
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Over the past eight years, much of the U.S. federal government’s operations have become something of an unmitigated bureaucratic mess. Whether we’re talking about the Defense Department, the EPA, the DEA, the IRS, the VA, the Energy Department, Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of Health and Human Services or the Department of the Interior, to…
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