Tag: Defense Spending

The USDA's Risk Management Agency issued $22 million in subsidies for people who have been dead for one to two years. (Thinkstock)

To deal with waste, fraud, and abuse, cut spending

Veronique de Rugy · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

"Three of the nation's civilian nuclear research facilities and its 104 commercial reactors remain ill-prepared to guard against large-scale terrorism threats," a Pentagon-funded study reports. (Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Just how safe are the nation’s nuclear reactors?

Kelly Cohen · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

Mark Flatten · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gather at the Fateh Mosque in Ramses Square for midday prayer in Cairo, Egypt. (Ed Giles/Getty Images)

Obama’s focus on the ‘Middle East peace process’ can be costly for all concerned

Rachel Ehrenfeld · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

A 2010 Chevrolet CG3300 passenger van (Courtesy photo)

DoD has cars, but doesn’t care to drive them

Kelly Cohen · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Jordanian Gen. Mashal al-Zaben reportedly had a long list of requests for Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairmain of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when the two met last week. (AP File)

Enough with the CNN Effect!

James Jay Carafano · August 19, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What is your foreign policy, Mr. President?

Cal Thomas · August 13, 2013 4:00 am

The case illustrates how little federal officials know about where goods and services they purchase come from.

Feds give millions in contracts to firms owned by fictitious people

Luke Rosiak · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

âThis has been one of the most volatile and uncertain budget cycles the Department of Defense has ever experienced,â Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said in a statement. (AP/Bruce Smith)

Pentagon reduces furlough days from 11 to 6

Tim Mak · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Defense Department slashes furlough days again

Joel Gehrke · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

‘Trust me’ is federal policy on policing preference fraud

Mark Flatten · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducts the first hearing on incidents of wasteful spending by the General Services Administration, the real estate agency for federal buildings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 16, 2012. Being sworn in to testify, from left are, GSA Inspector General Brian Miller, former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, Jeff Neely, former regional commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, Pacific Rim Region, GSA Chief of Staff Michael Robertson, and David Foley, deputy commissioner of the GSA Public Buildings Service. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Examiner Editorial: Waste and fraud cost feds hundreds of billions

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2013 4:00 am