IG: New York’s Health Exchange Has Some Serious Issues
New York’s health-insurance exchange is vulnerable to incidences of fraud and abuse, an audit conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services found. The system is incorrectly verifying...
View ArticleIn Five Days Time Congress Could Deal A Hammer Blow To Crony Capitalism
The government should let the charter of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) expire because it “harms poor people all over the world” and enriches the “politically connected,” according...
View ArticleNavajo Nation Builds New Jail For $3 Million Per Inmate
Navajo Division of Public Safety officials spent $31.7 million for an 80-bed jail that usually houses only seven to 11 inmates, according to a new report from the Department of Justice Office of...
View ArticlePaul Slams ‘Perverse’ Incentives For Year-End Spending
Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday slammed federal officials’ practice of rushing to spend leftover budget dollars in September so they don’t risk losing the money. The Kentucky Republican said Wednesday that...
View ArticleAmerica’s Premier, Next-Gen Carrier Just Got Demolished In New Report
Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has just gone $2 billion over its initial budget and still suffers from unreliable technology, according to a new Government Accountability Office report....
View ArticlePA Republicans Fight ‘Ghost Teachers’ This Halloween
Public teachers doing union work instead of their actual jobs are coming under fire in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as Republicans move to stop the practice. The practice can be found in many states and...
View ArticleThey’re Back! Congress Caught Hiding Earmarks In Bills
Congress banned earmarks in 2011, but crafty congressmen found ways to sneak nearly $5 million worth of the special interest spending projects into 2015 appropriation bills, according to a...
View ArticleGov’t Spent $2.6 Million On ‘Drought Sculptures’ AND $210K On Solar-Powered Beer
Is $2.6 million too much for artistic expressions of California’s drought? What about $210,000 for solar-powered beer? Apparently not for the federal government, according to a new report by Congress...
View ArticleGovernment Spent $780,000 To Find That Pizza Is Addictive
A recent study finding that pizza is as addictive as cocaine was funded with $780,000 in federal money, according to a newly-released congressional report. In late October, a study conducted at the...
View ArticleStates Wasting Billions Due To Unemployment Benefit Errors
States are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars by overpaying people in unemployment benefits, but the Obama administration is only asking states to recover half that money. Many states are failing to...
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