Tag: US Federal Spending

IN DEPTH: Blanket Budget Slash to ’22 Spending Levels Could Defund Biden’s Green Energy Push

April 20, 2023
Biden FY24 Budget RequestcongresseconomyEnvironmentPolicies & ImpactsPoliticsRegional & State NewsScienceUSUS Department of the InteriorUS Federal SpendingUS News
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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…

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Government Watchdogs Under-Equipped to Oversee Spending of Billions in Taxpayer Money

March 29, 2023
House Budget CommitteePoliticsUSUS Budget DeficitUS Federal Spending
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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…

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Dealing With Out-of-Control Deficit Spending in the New Congress

January 11, 2023
OpinionRepublicansUS Federal Spendingus treasuryViewpoints
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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…

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