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The CAGW-published Congressional Pig Book Summary (Pig Book) is an annual list of such projects and their sponsors. The 2008 Pig Book identified 10,610 projects in that year's congressional appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2008, costing taxpayers $17.2 billion. [2]
Detroit Free Press On Guard government watchdog columnist M.L. Elrick deputizes readers to help "follow the money." When it comes to politics and government, a lot of the money is found in ...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) watchdog organization devoted to U.S. government ethics and accountability. [2] [3] [4] Founded in 2003 as a counterweight to conservative government watchdog groups such as Judicial Watch, CREW works to expose ethics violations and corruption by government officials and institutions and to reduce the role of ...
President Trump fired more than a dozen inspectors general in a Friday night massacre that threatens to neutralize the independent oversight performed by these good government watchdogs.
This category includes non-governmental groups in the United States whose stated mission includes monitoring branches of the state or federal governments for fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, mismanagement, illegal activity, campaign donor influence, abuse of authority, miscarriage of justice, and so forth. Groups whose primary mission is one of ...
The Trump administration's idling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) left in limbo significant cases the agency brought against companies and large financial firms in the waning ...
[28] [29] [30] While the dossier played a central and essential role in the seeking of FISA warrants on Carter Page, [31] it did not play any role in the January 6, 2017, intelligence community assessment of the Russian actions in the 2016 election, [32] and it was not the trigger for the opening of the Russia investigation into whether the ...
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