Department of Veterans Affairs
What began as a simple hospital project has become yet another example of bureaucratic failure at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised that the federal government would reimburse the state for the costs of "Alligator Alcatraz," but doing so would make the detention facility subject to environmental reviews Florida ignored.
Don't comfort yourself with wishful thinking that millionaires and billionaires could take the entire burden of the deficit off our hands.
He was right the first time.
Congress holds the power of the purse in our system of government, and further eroding congressional responsibility for spending decisions will not end well.
The president's clear attempt to interfere in the Federal Reserve is not a one-off crisis.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate.
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If Sen. Josh Hawley and the Trump administration want to spare Americans the pain from tariffs, there is a far simpler solution.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the national debt, but any wasteful government spending should be eliminated.
A costly lease for the Maryland Department of Health, along with other findings in a state audit, raises questions about the millions in savings touted by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.
Federal overspending is squeezing states and cities, forcing them to raise taxes, slash services, or pile on more debt.
It shouldn't matter whether NPR leans right or left. Cutting its federal funding was the right move.
We still need real tax reform and much lower federal spending.
It's time to ask what level of spending Americans truly want with the money we actually have.
Federal subsidies undermine American companies, breed dependency, and stifle competition.
A Lancet study’s inflated numbers are being used to push a partisan narrative, not inform public policy.
The executive branch wants to use the Federal Reserve as a tool to accommodate the government's frenzy of reckless borrowing.
To keep Social Security solvent without cutting benefits would require a massive hike in payroll taxes, which would fall entirely on working Americans.
A state official says the contracts contained "proprietary information," so they were scrubbed and replaced with bare-bones summaries.
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Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
Partisan pundits are misreading statistical estimates and misrepresenting the science to suggest that Trump's Medicaid cuts will kill 100,000 people. That claim doesn’t survive scrutiny.
The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?
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The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
If the president truly cares about cutting waste, he should not be paying to set taxpayer dollars on fire.
Rather than reducing government's role in space travel, the bills shovels more taxpayer money into an agency that is being outperformed by the private sector.
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There's no evidence that cuts to the National Weather Service impacted the response to the weekend's tragic flash floods.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
The belief that limited government best protects individual rights turned out to be America’s secret sauce.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
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While the bill may terminate subsidies for electric vehicles and energy efficiency, it falls short of fully eliminating government intervention in the energy sector.
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Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
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The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
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Other countries have taken meaningful steps to address similar challenges. The U.S. has done nothing.
Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
"I would love an intellectual ecosystem in economics that was more ideologically balanced than what we have now," the Harvard professor tells Reason.
Social Security’s board of trustees expects the program to be insolvent in eight years.
House Republicans' budget would spend billions of dollars on the F-35's successor before the current model is even up to par.
