2023 saw Council for Citizens Against Government Waste secure another round of legislative wins in Congress and the states
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.
USPS and the Next Gen Vehicle
The United States Postal Service isn’t known for its whiz-kid, early adoption of shape-shifting technology innovations. While the private sector has been screaming along, birthing cutting-edge, disruptive technologies in the communications, transportation, and logistics sector, the USPS has remained mired in its top-heavy, sclerotic, analog, bricks-and-mortar past. For example, the USPS has been preparing to procure […]
Declaration of Dependence
A February 4, 2013 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report confirmed what taxpayer watchdog groups such as Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) have been warning about for years: Obamacare is an unprecedented disaster for every American’s personal health and the country’s economic health. CBO reported that 2.5 million people, a historically high number, will leave the […]
Tax and Spend Won’t Fix the Results of the Financial Crisis
Today, the President gave a speech on the five-year anniversary of the financial meltdown and claimed his policies of government “investments” and intrusion into the private sector, higher taxes, and more regulations have helped the economy turn the corner. He called for more government spending as he claimed, yet again, turning the economy around is his top […]
The New Normal?
What is becoming increasingly clear is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare, is changing and will change how Americans work. Here are some examples. According to Obamacare, any employer with 50 or more employees must provide health insurance to any employee that works 30 or more hours a week. Dealing with […]
It’s All in the Numbers
Last week, we got the jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). They reported a job gain of 162,000 for the month of July. There wasn’t a lot of hoopla about it because the numbers were pretty pathetic. Many analysts had expected somewhere between 175,000 to 200,000 jobs. Plus, the BLS dropped the […]