The M10 Booker embodies fundamental failures of with Department of Defense acquisition, including the lack of critical analysis and when to stop wasting the taxpayer’s money. Start with what the Army first envisioned in 2013: A light tank to replace the retired M551 Sheridan that could support infantry with two of them airdropping from a […]
REINing In Regulations will be Good for Innovation and Investments
The Trump administration has been moving headlong into reducing the regulatory burden on industries that are trying to invest and build in America. After President Trump released two Executive Orders (EO) on eliminating regulations, federal agencies are taking note and moving forward. Congress is also considering legislation to increase its role in reviewing regulations. Federal […]
Now is the Time to Reform or Replace the Sugar Program
Congress has a chance to deliver long overdue reforms to the sugar program. The current sugar program was intended to be a short-term solution but has evolved into a permanent government program that wastes taxpayer dollars and raises prices for consumers. The sugar program puts the sugar industry ahead of consumers and reforming or replacing […]
This Week in Waste – April 25, 2025
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 Oversight and Government Reform Committee Announces Hearing on Department of Defense Budget and Audit […]
State Legislators Should Reject Government Takeovers of Utilities
Proposals to establish new municipal utilities would roll back the advance of energy privatization.
GAO Releases New Estimate of COVID Unemployment Insurance Fraud
Congress and executive branch agencies should continue to get as many answers and money as possible.
Wealthy Counties Still Flush with COVID Cash
Local governments continue to spend left-over “fiscal recovery” funds on wish list projects with no accountability from Congress.
Estimates of COVID-19 Relief Fraud Continue to Increase
The government’s failure to distribute relief money correctly continues to be unearthed.
New Study Confirms 340B Program is Exploited
A new study, “340B and Health Equity: A Missed Opportunity in Medically Underserved Areas,” shows the program is misused.
115th Congress: A New Sheriff (with a Powerful Posse) Has Arrived
For the first time since Democrats turned the Speaker’s gavel over to the Republicans in January 2011, the Pennsylvania Avenue axis of power (the White House at one end of the famous street, and both chambers of Congress at the other) will be under the control of a single party. And for the first time since the 2004 elections, that party will be the Republicans’ “Grand Old Party,” not the Democrats. Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race completed the trifecta that began in 2010, when Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, followed by the 2014 elections that returned control of the Senate to the GOP.