The Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank was established in 1934 to encourage American exports. However, the bank subsidizes large and profitable companies that would otherwise have no difficulty in obtaining funding from the commercial banking system and is a waste of taxpayer resources. Last reauthorized by Congress in 2019, the Ex-Im Bank’s current authorization will expire on […]
State legislators across the country are addressing healthcare costs as a top priority during this legislative session. While making healthcare more affordable is a worthy goal, several bills that have been introduced claiming to lower healthcare costs would instead increase costs, reduce access to prescription drugs, and cause the loss of thousands of jobs. Since […]
The long-anticipated Trump administration artificial intelligence (AI) legislative framework has been released. The March 20, 2026, White House statement listed six policy priority areas: protecting families; safeguarding communities, respecting intellectual property rights; censorship and free speech; American AI dominance, and ensuing an AI-ready workforce. The administration made it clear that a national framework is essential: […]
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. House of Representatives Fails to Pass the Balanced Budget Amendment On March 18, 2026, the House […]
Americans are continually worried about the cost of healthcare. There are a plethora of good and bad ideas to make healthcare more affordable, including Most Favored Nation (MFN) price controls, which would import prices for pharmaceuticals from other countries, many of which rely on socialized medicine and government-run healthcare. But price controls in any industry, […]
The World Radio Conference 2027 (WRC-27) is scheduled for October 18- November 12, 2027, in Shanghai, China. This meeting is held every four years by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to review and revise the international radio regulations. WRC-27 agenda covers fixed-satellite and broadcasting-satellite issues; fixed, mobile and radiolocation issues; mobile-satellite issues; science issues; and […]
The certainty of death and taxes brings a double blow to grieving families and at the worst possible time. And those troubling circumstances would be much worse if the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC) had not saved the death tax exemption from being cut in half on December 31, 2025. Thanks to President Trump and […]
Kids in the lower-income households of Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas may find their Easter baskets a little less sweet this year. Across the country, state policymakers are pushing legislation requesting the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restrict what Americans receiving federal food assistance can buy with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program […]
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 […]
