Pentagon Fails Another Financial Audit, but Urges Patience as it Gets its Books in Order
The Department of Defense has failed yet another financial audit, the third since such audits began in 2018. But according to the Pentagon’s comptroller, Thomas Harker, there is hope the…
Newspapers Still Hopeful About Getting Federal Bailouts
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Among the thousands of businesses seeking government loans to help keep their operations and payrolls intact: newspapers. But not all of them. As…
Feds Waste Money on This While Debt Continues to Grow
Article from Fox News by Alex Pappas. An anti-government waste group has identified millions of taxpayer dollars allegedly frittered away on “absurd nature-related earmarks,” including $9 million to “quarantine fruit flies” and $13.8 million…
Pelosi’s Wasteful Spending Exposed
Article from Town Hall by Katie Pavlich. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are pretty enraged President Trump cancelled their taxpayer funded trip overseas — in the middle…
The Postal Service is Losing an Incredible Amount of Money
Article from Reason by Eric Boehm. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) finished fiscal year 2018 nearly $4 billion in the red—a whopping 44 percent increase in losses from the previous…
Senate Blocks Rand Paul’s Attempt To Stop Funding Pedophiles
Article from Breitbart by Kristina Wong. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) last week tried to block billions in U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the Afghan military and police forces unless…
Wasteful Government Spending Should Anger All Of Us
Article from The Daily Caller by Andrew Kerr. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Thursday released its eighth annual report on wasteful government spending in the form of fragmentation, duplication…
California Wastes Taxpayer Dollars, AGAIN
Article from Reason by Brian Doherty. In news that should come as no surprise to students of government infrastructure boondoggles, this week the California High Speed Rail Authority admits that…
Defense Racket: One Man Gets $7 million Pentagon Contract
Article by FLN Staff. According to NextGov, Eagle Harbor Solutions LLC, a one employee company, has been awarded a $7 million contract to provide cloud support for the Joint Enterprise Defense…
Obama-Era Government Waste Project Axed
Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi. It’s rare for a president to pull funding from a sweetheart transportation project. But on the final Friday of 2017, the Trump administration announced that it…