government waste

Introducing This Week's Theme: 'DOGE Is Not An Official Government Department'

Beege Welborn 2:40 PM | February 18, 2025

Flameout Of Renewable Delusions

Beege Welborn 11:20 AM | August 23, 2024

How about a waste and fraud oversight office?

Jazz Shaw 2:41 PM | October 06, 2022

"Inflation Reduction Act" would make IRS among the largest agencies in government

Jazz Shaw 4:01 PM | August 06, 2022

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The amount of money COVID relief fraudsters have stolen probably can't be measured

Jazz Shaw 5:31 PM | January 22, 2022

Defense IG to "evaluate" Pentagon's handling of UFO questions

Jazz Shaw 8:01 PM | May 04, 2021

Mark Cuban: Let's get rid of all the bureaucrats

John Sexton 1:01 PM | November 15, 2017

Another dry hole: Mnuchin travel inquiry comes up empty

Jazz Shaw 8:01 AM | October 10, 2017

Media efforts to expand "private jetgate" to EPA come up dry

Jazz Shaw 8:01 AM | September 29, 2017

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Congrats, taxpayers. You bought some very posh swag for a defense contractor

Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM | August 10, 2017

Will Congress finally at least scale back "official time" for government worker unions?

Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | February 18, 2017

The chair of the MSPB has abruptly resigned

Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM | January 05, 2017

Report: Pentagon squashed plan to save $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

Larry O'Connor 10:31 AM | December 06, 2016

Budget savvy: Guess how much the federal government spends per year on public relations

Jazz Shaw 2:41 PM | October 06, 2016

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The robot takeover of the VA has failed... for now

Jazz Shaw 4:31 PM | October 03, 2016

Former Commerce Department appointee had a great time on the taxpayer dime

Jazz Shaw 3:31 PM | September 11, 2016

Infamous Pentagon travel card abuse at strip clubs, casinos was never addressed

Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | August 31, 2016

Congrats. You just paid $40M to run monkeys to death on treadmills in Texas

Jazz Shaw 8:31 AM | August 13, 2016

Yes, it's possible to balance the budget in one year if Congress listens to these recommendations

Matt Vespa 8:01 PM | July 02, 2016

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The FDA's $36 million campaign to curb LGBT tobacco use

Larry O'Connor 7:21 AM | May 04, 2016

Federal employee unions may soon have to account for wasted time on the taxpayer dime

Jazz Shaw 1:21 PM | March 02, 2016

EPA gives out a half million dollars in bonuses for no apparent reason

Jazz Shaw 1:21 PM | December 17, 2015

New hire at EPA snags $9K in bonuses in 90 days

Jazz Shaw 5:21 PM | November 30, 2015

National Weather Service official creates new job for himself with a very nice raise

Jazz Shaw 5:21 PM | November 17, 2015

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Rest easy: Homeland Security still has nearly 100 employees on paid leave for more than a year

Jazz Shaw 12:41 PM | October 22, 2015

Report: small government agency lost billions in stimulus cash

Taylor Millard 8:41 AM | October 19, 2015

Golden age: the EPA spent $92M on designer furniture

Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | October 08, 2015

GI Bill being used to reimburse some very... interesting schools

Jazz Shaw 5:21 PM | July 20, 2015

Chaffetz to Oregon: say... you used a lot of fed tax money on that Obamacare site, didn't you?

Jazz Shaw 5:31 PM | June 27, 2015

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More great news: Social Security overpaid nearly half the people on disability

Jazz Shaw 2:01 PM | June 07, 2015

Party time: DOD rings up more than $3M in credit card charges at casinos, strip clubs in one year

Jazz Shaw 12:01 PM | May 29, 2015

We sure spent a lot on those awful TSA naked body scanners

Matt Vespa 6:01 PM | May 22, 2015