It can be argued that the U.S. government has an excessive spending problem, where the politicians that American voters send to Washington D.C. in each election seem to have very little appetite to rein in their free-spending habits, where the opportunity to spend other people’s money on things that can make them more popular…
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The week between the Christmas and New Year’s often makes for a slow news week, where all the hubbub and activity of the holidays work to refocus the attention of Americans on their families and friends rather than what’s going on in their communities or is happening in Washington D.C. Since this is my…
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Following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, what would it take for the U.S. Congress to put the U.S. government’s spending on a course to zero out the U.S. government’s budget deficit by 2027? That question is more of a thought experiment than something that we think is likely…
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It’s back! It was just two weeks ago that the U.S. Congress delayed a scheduled presentation of federal government shutdown theater until the holidays, and now that the holidays have come, the U.S. Congress has… delayed what could have been a Christmas pageant episode of federal government shutdown theater for another month. Mike DeBonis…
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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), whose mission is to “protect and manage the Nation’s natural resources and cultural heritage”, employs over 70,000 bureaucrats and spends over $12 billion per year. According to a recent ABC News report, the federal government department has a problem with a number of its managers creating a…
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At one time, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada was one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Congress, if not its most powerful member. He retired after a 30-year career at the end of 2016. Nearly a year later, his name has come back into the news because of the uncovering of a…
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The U.S. Congress has announced that it has resolved the differences between the House and Senate versions of a tax cut bill, where both houses will soon vote on the final version. The New York Times reports: Party leaders in the House and Senate agreed in principle to bridge the yawning gaps between their…
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A brand new scandal has broken out at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where the fingerprints of the department’s bureaucrats are all over the latest evidence of misconduct. USA Today’s Donavan Slack broke the story: Neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider racked up more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states, including cases…
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With the news being dominated by stories of an ethically-troubled Senator and an ethically-troubled Representative resigning from their positions of power in Washington D.C. today, many Americans might have missed that a scheduled showing of federal government shutdown theater has been postponed for at least another two weeks. Mike DeBonis of the Washington Post…
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Over the years, MyGovCost has highlighted some of the more bizarre ways that U.S. taxpayer funds have been used to accomplish really questionable things, but we may have a new contender for what is perhaps the strangest way that the U.S. government’s bureaucrats have ever wasted money. It may not surprise you to learn…
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