The extent of stimulus theft gets bigger by the day
The $6 trillion worth of federal stimulus money that washed through the economy in the pandemic’s wake created an obvious and enduring problem: how to make sure it didn’t end…
Refusing federal money with strings attached
How often do you see stories about local governments turning down millions of dollars in federal aid? Rarely to never. Except that’s exactly what a small Texas town (among others)…
Biden wants even more stimulus spending
Despite the trillions of dollars in relief and stimulus official Washington has injected into the economy, the Biden administration want even more: The Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress…
Tens of billions more stimulus in the works
The surge in omicron variant cases across the country has some in Congress pondering yet another round of economic stimulus checks – roughly $68 billion worth for “an array of…
Paycheck Protection Program was a costly dud
Among the many federal efforts to prop-up the economy in the wake of government-mandated business closures was the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Roughly $800 billion was shoveled into PPP,…
The ‘biggest organized fraud heist’ that plundered COVID relief
While portions of official Washington rub their foreheads trying to understand how hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were wasted in Afghanistan, there’s a reminder…
