Congress Yet Again Abuses 'Emergency Spending' for Non-Emergency Purposes
Let's just call this what it is: another gimmick for Congress to escape its own budget limits and avoid having a conversation about tradeoffs.
Let's just call this what it is: another gimmick for Congress to escape its own budget limits and avoid having a conversation about tradeoffs.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
Money supposedly spent to help Americans may actually have done a lot of damage.
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
State governments have until the end of 2026 to spend the cash, even though Congress ended the COVID-19 emergency declaration last year.
Martin Kulldorff talks about his dismissal from Harvard Medical School, persisting college vaccine mandates, and surviving COVID-era censorship on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Columnist Joe Nocera debates Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
Since COVID-era school closures, chronic absenteeism has increased from 15 to 26 percent, with poor districts struggling the most.
The move comes in response to Reason's reporting about the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's push to crack down on licensees for minor violations racked up during the pandemic.
The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.
Congress has authorized over $12 trillion in emergency spending over the past three decades.
In the name of safety, politicians did many things that diminished our lives—without making us safer.
Schools districts that stayed almost entirely remote significantly hindered progress, according to new data.
The president wants to raise the rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, despite it being well-established that this is the most economically-destructive method to raise government funds.
The admission came as the agency pushed for funding. It's a reminder that the cops should spend fewer resources seizing cannabis and more on solving serious crimes.
The Royalty Transparency Act passed unanimously out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday.
"The people who violated the governor's mandates and orders should face some consequences," a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board member said in 2022.
The president criticized companies for selling "smaller-than-usual products" whose "price stays the same." But it was his and his predecessor's spending policies that caused the underlying issue.
The Biden administration's interference with bookselling harks back to a 1963 Supreme Court case involving literature that Rhode Island deemed dangerous.
The verdict vindicates the constitutional rights that Louisiana sheriff's deputies flagrantly violated when they hauled Waylon Bailey off to jail.
Health reporter Emily Kopp and biologist Alex Washburne discuss new documents that detail plans to manipulate bat-borne coronaviruses in Wuhan on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
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The Things Fell Apart host explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic rewrote Star Wars.
The Things Fell Apart host Jon Ronson explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic is basically a rewrite of Star Wars.
"There has been a deliberate attempt to inflame the public against experts," warned one Davos panelist.
The doctor's claims that he was open to either explanation is flatly contradicted by his literal words.
Republican lawmakers criticized the former NIH official for playing "semantics" about lab leaks and gain-of-function research during closed-door congressional testimony this week.
Republican senators say the change is "mind-bending and deeply concerning."
Francis Collins’ remarks highlight the folly of attaching "infinite value" to a life saved by government regulation.
Post-COVID educational declines are here to stay.
Lawmakers can take small steps that are uncontroversial and bipartisan to jumpstart the fiscal stability process.
While U.S. math scores declined on the Program for International Student Assessment test, reading scores remained stable, bucking a global trend.
A war on terror–era program is the only legal avenue for people seeking compensation for a COVID vaccine injury.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with the senator about his quest to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and hold Anthony Fauci accountable.
The ongoing rollback of Medicaid is a rare step to reverse the “ratcheting growth” of our social safety net.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with the senator about his quest to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and hold Anthony Fauci accountable.
A new GAO report details federal prosecutors' attempts to put the horse back in the barn.
"Being a true free speech champion does require that you defend speech that even you disagree with," says libertarian Rikki Schlott.
A new Government Accountability Office report notes that of 24 federal agencies, none of their headquarters are more than half-staffed on an average day.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
But that decision seems to violate federal law.
Well over half of those funds remain unspent, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Especially because the once-dismissed possibility of rising rates is now a reality.
The attacks on Sweden's laissez faire approach were shortsighted, says the Cato Institute senior fellow.
The big spending has fueled higher inflation, resulted in larger-than-projected deficits, and contributed to a record level of debt.
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