Tag: Government Spending

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

DHS skirts Noem accountability vow by awarding contracts $1 under threshold

Molly Parks · November 21, 2025 7:42 pm

UNITED STATES - MAY 22: Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Decamillionaires in Congress make taxpayers pay for their lodging and lunches

Robert Schmad · November 20, 2025 12:06 pm

President Joe Biden

Cost of bureaucracy exploded under Biden, report shows

Robert Schmad · November 14, 2025 11:19 am

A collage Sens. Time Kaine (D-VA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL).

Democratic senators stand by vote to end shutdown

Jenny Goldsberry · November 10, 2025 2:09 pm

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) sits for an interview on Oct. 22, 2025.

Top House appropriator bullish on post-shutdown breakthrough

Rachel Schilke, Lauren Green · October 23, 2025 6:00 am

Governor JB Pritzker talks to media at a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Illinois treasurer promises to pass nonprofit legislation vetoed by Pritzker

Center Square · October 22, 2025 5:28 pm

Capitol shutdown associated press

After decades of red ink, a fresh push for a balanced budget amendment emerges

Kevin R. Kosar · October 17, 2025 5:50 am

The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., shown Wednesday, June 21, 2006, measures 361 feet to the top of its familiar dome. The neck-bending skyscrapers that pack Chicago's fabled skyline are little more than scaled-down miniatures in downstate cities, where even the tallest buildings are at least three times shorter than the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.

Illinois has among highest-paid state employees

Center Square · October 11, 2025 3:23 pm

Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, left, speaks as other senators are spread out at desks on the Senate floor and into an upper gallery Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state's Legislature convened Monday under a large security presence because of concerns about efforts by armed groups who might try to disrupt the proceedings or occupy the Capitol, which is closed to the public due to the ongoing pandemic.

How WA’s public pension system planning could cost taxpayers down the road

Center Square · October 9, 2025 4:37 pm

Social Security money.

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

Improper payments are cheating the taxpayer and bloating the federal budget

Rachel Greszler · September 26, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington.

Democrats are wrong: Pocket rescission is lawful

Michael B. Williams · September 21, 2025 6:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, flanked by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks about the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025

Democrats thrust expiring Obamacare credits into center of shutdown brawl

Ramsey Touchberry · September 5, 2025 5:00 am