Federal Spending
Feds finally sell massive D.C. building that’s been empty and costing millions for over a year(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The federal government on Wednesday officially sold an office building that had been vacant since March 2025, a move expected to save the U.S. at… Read More
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Govt. shutdown risk spikes as Senate Democrats vow to tank funding package(The Center Square) – Senate Republicans’ hopes of finishing the government funding process without incident were dashed over the weekend with a second fatal shooting of a protester… Read More
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Watchdog warns of national debt interest payments hitting $1 trillion(The Center Square) – Budget watchdogs are sounding the alarm as the U.S. hit an unfortunate fiscal milestone in fiscal year 2025: government spending on debt interest payments alone topped… Read More
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Johnson: Democrats ‘broke the system’ of U.S. health care(The Center Square) – Republican leaders in Congress remain firmly opposed to any health care plan that renews the pandemic-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.,… Read More
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Millions in US tax dollars likely funding sex work overseas, watchdog reports(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Hundreds of millions in federal taxpayer dollars have been given to organizations around the world that likely facilitate prostitution and the sex industry, a watchdog… Read More
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‘Big, beautiful bill’ narrowly passes Senate, faces tough crowd in House(The Center Square) – After more than 26 hours of debate and a record number of vote-a-rama amendments, the U.S. Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’… Read More
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Millionaires enrolled in Medicaid, costing America billions(The Center Square) – It's not just lower-income people or those with disabilities using Medicaid in the United States. A new investigation led by the Patient First Coalition found that… Read More
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Trump, Musk feud appears to cool — for now(The Center Square) – After an explosive and unprecedented day between President Donald Trump and former head of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk, tensions seem to have… Read More
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Musk says Trump’s spending plan ‘undermines’ DOGE effort(The Center Square) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk said President Donald Trump’s support for a GOP tax and spending bill would undermine the work done by the Department of… Read More
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Trump administration moves to cut federal contracts with Harvard(The Center Square) – In another blow to Harvard University, the Trump administration has moved to cancel federal contracts with the Ivy League school. The General Services Administration announced that… Read More
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Poll: Voters support cutting DEI, foreign aid spending, but not Medicaid, military(The Center Square) – American taxpayers are divided on federal spending and whether significant cuts should be made, but the vast majority support increasing or maintaining current funding levels… Read More
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Trump calls for defunding NPR, PBS(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump Thursday called for defunding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two partially federally funded groups under scrutiny in the DOGE era. Trump’s… Read More
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PBS and NPR heads asked to testify before DOGE committee(The Center Square) – The House Subcommittee for the Department of Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operations that receives taxpayer funding, to testify… Read More
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Feds borrow $8 billion per day as national debt surges, CBO says(The Center Square) – The Congressional Budget Office has released new data showing that in the first five months of this fiscal year, the U.S. federal government has already racked… Read More
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‘Thank you DOGE’: Rubio cancels 83% of USAID contracts(The Center Square) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that 83% of contracts at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been officially cancelled. The announcement is… Read More
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Trump admin doubles down on cuts to USAID with plan for 90% reduction(The Center Square) – The Trump administration wants to purge more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts, in addition to approximately $60 billion in… Read More
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Supreme Court pauses judge’s order requiring $2 billion in foreign aid to be paid out(The Center Square) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts late Wednesday paused a lower court’s ruling requiring the Trump administration to release $2 billion in foreign aid payments. Read More
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House Republicans’ $4.5 trillion budget resolution overcomes odds, passes(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, border, defense, and energy promises are one step closer to enactment after the U.S. House narrowly passed its $4.5 trillion budget… Read More
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Latest DOGE cuts bring total savings at Dept. of Ed. to more than $1 billion(The Heartlander) — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it was axing 70 grants totaling $373 million at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The grants were made under… Read More
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Democrats, media, risk the republic in defending orgy of federal spending unearthed by DOGE, Missouri Sens. Schmitt, Hawley warnThe left has made the federal government its “personal piggy bank,” and that’s why Democrats and their bought-and-paid-for media are squealing like stuck pigs at DOGE’s exposure of it. That’s… Read More