H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) permanently extended the tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), which were set to expire by the end of 2025. The OBBBA also included both new and expanded tax deductions and credits designed to improve the lives of working American families. […]
Members of Congress are about to approve a record budget for the Department of Defense (DOD), which requires a concomitant increase in oversight and accountability given the Pentagon’s track record of inefficient spending and poor financial stewardship. The House of Representatives passed the fiscal year (FY) 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on July 22, […]
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 included limits on federal student loans. The OBBBA eliminated the issuance of new Federal Direct Graduate PLUS loans effective July 1, 2026, and restored annual caps on other federal loans to graduate students. The changes in student loans will save an estimated $307 billion over 10 […]
In 1995, the House of Representatives passed a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the Constitution, but it failed in the Senate by a single vote. The budget deficit in fiscal year (FY) 1995 was $164 billion. It is now $38.7 trillion. On February 11, 2026, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its budget outlook for […]
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), which extended and enhanced the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, included other significant benefits to taxpayers, including the termination of a disastrous software program at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Citizens Against Government Waste raised the alarm for many years over the idea of allowing the IRS […]
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. Trump Administration Cancels Green New Deal Loans After conducting a first-year review of the Department of […]
On December 23, 2025, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released his annual Festivus report, which cites a total of $1.6 trillion in unnecessary federal spending, including $1.22 trillion in interest payments on the national debt. The report cites $77 million for Department of Defense (DOD)’s outdated Marine Mammal Program, which trains dolphins and sea lions to […]
As America begins celebrating its 250th birthday, it would be a great gift to the people to eliminate government waste, fraud, and abuse and reduce the $38.4 trillion national debt. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that annual deficits will average $2 trillion by 2035, and the debt will rise to $52 trillion. Congress should use […]
The enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at the center of the October government shutdown were not only made available to people making as much as $500,000 annually but also turned out to be rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. A December 3, 2025, Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that the advanced premium […]
President Donald Trump sent a letter to the House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on August 28, 2025, notifying Congress that he rescinded $4.9 billion in foreign aid and international organizations funding. This was the President’s fist use of a “pocket rescission,” which Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) praised as an effective tool to save taxpayer […]
