Tag: Watchdog

Quiz: What did your tax dollars buy in 2014?

Sarah Bedford · December 23, 2014 7:06 pm

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Report: IRS ‘fundamentally transformed’ by Obamacare, Tea Party targeting

Mark Tapscott · December 23, 2014 1:00 am

Wasteful and fraudulent disability payments are well-documented problems, but a congressional probe has found that they often result when administrative law judges in the federal bureaucracy approve previously rejected claims. (iStock)

Administrative law judges waste billions by granting most disability appeals

Sarah Bedford · December 22, 2014 10:00 am

Crew members stand on the flight deck of Aircraft Carrier USS George Washington whilst at anchor in Busan port on July 11, 2014 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty images)

Congress, Obama hand Pentagon billions for unwanted military spending programs

Mark Tapscott · December 21, 2014 10:00 am

As of January, 21 of the Sunlight Foundation's "Fixed Fortunes" 200 companies have already made donations to both Democratic and Republican party committees. (iStock Photo)

Overtime abuses in Homeland Security cost taxpayers more than $500 million

Ethan Barton · December 20, 2014 7:00 pm

Toba-Maskoy tribal council members stand in their resettlement camp in April 1981. (Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic/Getty images)

Feds haven’t compensated Native Americans 28 years after ordering them to move

Sarah Bedford · December 20, 2014 10:00 am

Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation work around a tank farm where highly radioactive waste is stored underground. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said on Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny, File)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department lags on plan to remove nuke waste they’ve long known about

Sarah Bedford · December 19, 2014 1:53 pm

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Healthcare piles up deficits

Ethan Barton · December 19, 2014 10:00 am

Legal paperwork shows that in a 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity complaint brought by an employee, in which then-director George Cohen was the named defendant, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was represented by the law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser. (iStock Photo)

Despite ethics pledge, FMCS hired director’s old boss to do legal work

Luke Rosiak · December 18, 2014 9:26 pm

Members of Congress and agencies rely on demographic data to shape policy. (iStock)

Census Bureau wants to stop tracking marriage and its effect on the U.S.

Luke Rosiak · December 18, 2014 7:58 pm

FEMA became infamous after its poor response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast in 2005. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

Federal disaster spending spirals, and FEMA has no plan to control it

Mark Tapscott · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

Pedestrians walk past the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 10, 2013. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty images)

VA praised disgraced contract official who went on to top Treasury job

Luke Rosiak · December 18, 2014 10:00 am