Washington High School to pay for a school sports program out of a Commissioner’s discretionary funds. Discretionary funds ...

People who scour government data for fraud, however, say it is common to come across entities receiving millions of taxpayer dollars that do not seem to operate like normal businesses.  Walter Curt, ...

Steve Mufson had a piece in the Washington Post Outlook section this past weekend suggesting that the $172 billion that the U.S. government has spent on early stage energy research since 1961 has ...

The U.S. Congress appears poised to avoid another government shutdown later this month by passing compromise bills that would soften spending cuts sought by the Trump administration, according to ...

There has been a spate of articles and commentary in recent days calling on the Australian government to reduce spending. Those calling for government cuts – mostly long-time advocates of smaller ...