Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. United in Exposing Waste and Eliminating CMMI In 2025, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste […]
Preventing fraud is much more effective if it is done before money is spent rather than chasing it afterwards. Since the Government Accountability Office (GAO) first identified improper payments as a systemic government-wide issue in 1997, the enactment of the Improper Payments Act of 2002 and three related bills through 2019 did not stop them […]
Among all means of transportation, there has always been a fascination with railroads. Thousands of rail cars are loaded with goods and passengers and pulled toward their destinations by powerful locomotives. Millions of miles of steel tracks span across the vast American continent, reminding the nation what can be achieved with hard work and industrial […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. GLOBE Model and CMMI Should Be Gone On September 30, 2026, the Center for Medicare […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. CAGW Names Bernie Sanders Its August 2026 Porker of the Month Citizens Against Government Waste […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. 340B Reforms Introduced in Congress The 340B Drug Pricing Program has grown exponentially, surpassing $100 billion […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Biden administration adopted the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, which mandated baseload energy facilities to reduce and control their carbon footprint by 90 percent by 2032. The standards also declared carbon capture and storage technology as the best and likely only way to achieve this goal. On September 14, […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. NTIA Empowers States to Use BEAD Savings for Location “True-Up,” Ensuring Universal Broadband Availability Across […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. There Is Nothing Free About Socialism As the lure of socialism grows across America, “free” programs […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. Closing the Digital Divide Once and for All: NTIA Announces All 56 BEAD Final Proposals Now […]
