Congress holds the power of the purse in our system of government, and further eroding congressional responsibility for spending decisions will not end well.
A Lancet study’s inflated numbers are being used to push a partisan narrative, not inform public policy.
If the president truly cares about cutting waste, he should not be paying to set taxpayer dollars on fire.
But volunteers are stepping up even as Congress fails to act.
Plus: Who's in charge of DOGE, protests over Israel's renewed assault on Gaza, and a tribute to the life of Manuel Klausner.
One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.
Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of freedom in the United States.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
There remains many open questions about whether the agency's funding played a role in the creation of COVID-19 in a Wuhan laboratory.
Plus: USAID and Education Department cuts, tariff deal reached, and more...
The Trump administration made an extreme claim about wasteful foreign aid that just wasn't true.
The "largest women's empowerment program" was supposed to benefit 75,000 women.
Apparently, the government isn't good at designing sustainable social networks.
