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: […]
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 […]
Saving taxpayer money is often achieved with common sense ideas that are used throughout the private sector, like sharing resources and services that are suitable for multiple applications The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) February 3, 2026, report described how federal shared services are being used and what can be done to improve their adoption. GAO […]
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. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearing is Next Step for 340B Reform The […]
By Roslyn Layton, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Strand Consult and Deborah Collier, Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, Citizens Against Government Waste The United States is currently operating under a fragmented system of privacy regulations because Congress has not yet enacted a national framework to regulate consumer data privacy and security. States have sought […]
The federal government annually spends more than $100 billion for information technology (IT), 80 percent of which is used to operate and maintain existing systems, some of which are more than 50 years old. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) first placed IT modernization on its High Risk List in 2015, and Citizens Against Government Waste […]
As the need to build and power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers increases, support for nuclear energy is on the rise. Ensuring a stable and sufficient supply of energy is critical for the U.S. to remain the global leader in the development of new technologies. States are leading the way to aid in the effort […]
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 effort to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. Missouri Senate Rejects Stadium Funding Bill In the final days of their session, the Missouri […]
World Intellectual Property (IP) Day is always an opportunity to reiterate the significance of the only property right protected in the Constitution. Celebrated every April 26, the festivities home in on a particular aspect of IP. The 2025 theme is “IP and Music: Feel the beat of IP.” Every nation has its own beat and […]
The Biden-Harris administration’s latest attack on American innovation is aimed at artificial intelligence.
