by Jane Richey | Sep 13, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Social Security made $1.3 billion in potentially improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work, congressional investigators said in a report Friday. The Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 workers...
by Jane Richey | Aug 27, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. government will fund $313 million in home mortgages for Palestinians living on the West Bank, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday. The U.S. will also guarantee $110 million in loans to small- and medium-sized businesses...
by Jane Richey | Aug 27, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Treasury Department’s latest official daily accounting of the U.S. government’s receipts, expenditures and borrowings–released this afternoon at 4:00 p.m.–indicates that the legally limited debt of the federal government has now been exactly...
by Jane Richey | Aug 22, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Only 65 percent of the nearly $80 billion that President Obama unilaterally diverted from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail out the auto industry over the strong objections of Congress has been recovered, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s July...
by Jane Richey | Aug 16, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Four days a week this summer, lime green school buses loaded with games, books and computers rumbled through low-income neighborhoods south of Seattle. Their aim wasn’t just to entertain kids — but to feed them. “It’s fun here,” said...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service (FMS), which publishes both the federal government’s official Daily Treasury Statement and its official Monthly Treasury Statement, is reporting that in July the federal government ran a deficit of $98...
