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Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. Copper Wire Retirement at the Forefront of Next Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Meeting The FCC continues […]
Congress created the 340B program in 1992 to fix a problem it had created two years earlier when it implemented price controls, or rebates, in the Medicaid drug benefit program. As a condition to participate in Medicaid, pharmaceutical companies must also partake in the 340B program, giving significant discounts of between 20-50 percent, to certain federally-funded […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced draft guidance for premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for electronic delivery systems (ENDS) that modifies the agency’s consideration of flavored products. The March 9, 2026, proposal states that a flavored ENDS product application must show that the benefits outweigh the risks to meet the standard of “appropriate for […]
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has long called for the reduction of burdensome and outdated regulations, especially for technology and telecommunications. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been at the forefront of this effort, beginning with its March 23, 2025, “Delete, Delete, Delete” docket seeking comments on which rules, regulations and guidance should be eliminated […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Smart Play Is Stay Out of the Way CAGW’s issue brief […]
Eliminating taxes on overtime pay in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) fulfills one of President Trump’s campaign promises. Individuals with hourly or non-professional jobs or earning an annual salary income less than $35,568, will be able to file for a federal income tax deduction capped at $12,500 for single filers and $25,000 for […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. The Taxpayers’ State of the Union CAGW President Tom Schatz wrote “The Taxpayers State of the […]
The United States has not been to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. On December 11, 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1 to return U.S. astronauts to the Moon, but that has still not happened. The initiative, later rebranded Artemis, was built upon multiple legacy National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) components […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. CAGW Names Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger February 2026 Porker of the Month Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger […]
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress enacted several laws intended to provide relief for businesses and individual, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The CARES Act included an Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) for businesses and tax-exempt organizations that paid wages […]
