David Williams

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Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

New IRS head is a breath of fresh air for a troubled agency

David Williams · June 25, 2025 6:00 am

A government bureaucracy called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to put millions more American consumers' personal financial information at risk. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

Shedding light on the abuses and overreach of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

David Williams · February 7, 2024 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Mass tort litigations create massive costs for society

David Williams · January 11, 2024 10:55 pm

FDA needs to let go of its risk-averse regulatory model

Beltway Confidential

FDA needs to let go of its risk-averse regulatory model

David Williams · September 1, 2023 6:00 am

Congress must rein in pharmacy benefit managers to lower healthcare costs

Beltway Confidential

Congress must rein in pharmacy benefit managers to lower healthcare costs

Rep. Buddy Carter, David Williams · July 13, 2023 6:00 am

Supporting misguided stall tactics in sugar policy like "zero-for-zero" effectively hands over control of U.S. economic policy - and Americans' wallets - to corrupt foreign governments like that of Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Big Sugar’s ‘zero for zero’ scam

David Williams · December 16, 2017 5:01 am

There is much more to risk evaluation than asset size alone. (iStock by Getty Images)

Want economic growth? Unleash our banks

David Williams · October 31, 2017 4:01 am

Over the next two years, this Congress has the opportunity to make good on its promise to protect the taxpayers' interest. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

At the Department of Energy, taxpayer funds held hostage

David Williams · August 4, 2017 4:01 am

Consumers and taxpayers will be much better off with lower monthly rates and lower taxes when politicians simply let the energy market do its job. A nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, N.J. (Peter Ackerman/The Asbury Park Press via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Why we shouldn’t bail out big nuclear

David Williams · July 21, 2017 11:00 pm

It's now a prime opportunity for Congress to get to work on tax reform. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Beltway Confidential

Tax reform is possible — here’s why it’s urgent

David Williams · March 27, 2017 11:00 pm

The fact that trolley lines can't be easily or inexpensively moved, as bus lines can, means that entrepreneurs will build bars and restaurants on trolley-served streets, which D.C.'s H Street N.E. will be if the proposed trolley line is up and operating. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A year after opening, DC Streetcar is just an expensive relic of the past

David Williams · February 23, 2017 12:00 am

If the Obamacare exchanges are in a —œtrial and error—£ stage, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid acting administrator Andy Slavitt described them last week at the Marketplace Innovation Conference, the errors shouldn’t have to come at the expense of taxpayers. (AP Photo)

Greater transparency the first step to keeping Americans healthy and insured

David Williams · June 27, 2016 4:03 am