Tag: Pandemic spending

House Oversight Committee Holds First Hearing on Federal Pandemic Spending

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability holds its first hearing of the 118th Congress at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, to investigate the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in federal COVID relief programs. The Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) will preside over the hearing, and Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability…


LIVE NOW: House Oversight Committee Holds First Hearing on Federal Pandemic Spending

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability holds its first hearing of the 118th Congress at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, to investigate the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in federal COVID relief programs. The Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) will preside over the hearing, and Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability…


Pandemic Spending Sent Federal Deficit to $268 Billion in January, Feds Say

OTTAWA—The federal government says it ran a budgetary deficit of $268.2 billion through 10 months of its fiscal year as the treasury pumped out more pandemic aid. The deficit from April to January compares to a deficit of $10.6 billion over the same period one year earlier. The government says in its monthly fiscal monitor…