Narrowly understood, the president-elect's familiar-sounding plan to tackle "massive waste and fraud" may not give us "smaller government" in any meaningful sense.
When it comes to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, what's lacking is not ideas but the political will to act on them.
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the Fed, the Army, Social Security, and everything else.
Is this latest attempt at student debt forgiveness a serious policy or a pre-election ploy?
An ex-Secret Service agent explains what he thinks left Donald Trump vulnerable to two close-call assassination attempts within two months.
Oshkosh Defense’s USPS van is thousands of dollars more expensive than the industry standard.
The idea, proposed by former President Donald Trump, could curb waste and step in where our delinquent legislators are asleep on the job.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declares a crisis and issues new regulations.
Uncle Sam is resorting to some unusual methods to support the Israeli war effort.
Minnesota used federal taxpayer dollars to cover state workers' parking costs, fund the Minnesota Zoo, and teach minority-owned businesses how to apply for government contracts.
Government agencies are expensive, incompetent, and overreaching. The Secret Service is no exception.
Athletes still can't swim in the Seine River after Paris wasted $1.5 billion trying to clean it for Olympic events.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
The national debt has become an alarm bell ringing in the distance that people are pretending not to hear, especially in the city that caused the problem.
Just the latest development in the continuing saga of COVID stimulus fraud.
The Congressional Budget Office reports the 2024 budget deficit will near $2 trillion.
Does America really need a National Strategic Dad Jokes Reserve?
A tale from the Tortured Public Servants Department.
If businesses don't serve customers well, they go out of business. Government, on the other hand, is a monopoly.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
The team's owner, John Fisher, may have overestimated Las Vegas residents' enthusiasm for a new baseball team.
State governments have until the end of 2026 to spend the cash, even though Congress ended the COVID-19 emergency declaration last year.
Sadly, not by drinking it—the government just lost a fifth of the state’s inventory.
Jackson County, Missouri, voted not to extend a sales tax that would have benefited the Chiefs and the Royals.
Jackson County, Missouri, residents should not be billed for the undertakings of private businesses.
Congress has authorized over $12 trillion in emergency spending over the past three decades.
Imported tea was required for decades to pass a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States.
Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.
Imported tea was required for decades to pass a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States.
The whole project was supposed to cost $33 billion when it was initially proposed.
Why are federal taxpayers paying for upgrades at tiny rural airports, Thanksgiving Day parades, and enhancements for Alaskan king crabs?
And it isn't the first time.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that two-thirds of government-owned buildings haven't been inspected for asbestos in at least five years.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says more chip subsidies are needed, even before the Biden administration has distributed $52 billion or measured how effective that spending was.
The plan is the Biden administration's latest effort to enact large-scale student loan forgiveness.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 apportioned billions of dollars for green energy tax credits while also allowing them to be sold to other taxpayers.
Copper Peak revitalization was pitched as an economic development project for the Upper Peninsula, which already has two working ski jumps.
The tax credits currently rank as the largest subsidy in state history.
"Why isn't there a toilet here? I just don't get it. Nobody does," one resident told The New York Times last week. "It's yet another example of the city that can't."
According to a report from Good Jobs First, St. Louis' public schools took the brunt of the loss at nearly 65 percent of the total.
L.A., Portland, and other cities are spending millions to house homeless people in outdoor "safe sleeping" sites.
Government is "promoting bad behavior," says Sen. Rand Paul. He's right.
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