President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request increases discretionary funding for the Department of Interior (DOI) by $2 billion to $18.9 billion—a 12-percent increase from this year’s enacted spending plan. Much of that proposed hike chips away at long-lingering deferred maintenance backlogs, beefs up federal wildlands fire-fighting capacities, accelerates water development projects, sustains…

Massive spending bills authorized by Congress over the last two years have poured billions of dollars through federal agencies into state coffers, threatening to overwhelm the government inspectors charged with preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in the use of taxpayer money. Inspectors general from three federal agencies and a director from the Government Accountability Office…

Commentary For all the heat and light associated with the showdown battle for the speakership of the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives, the dealmaking addressed symptoms of the problems, not the root causes. Consider the symptoms of one of the major problems that have plagued the United States for decades: out-of-control federal spending, as highlighted…