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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 […]
The 340B Drug Discount program was created in 1992 to help federally funded clinics and public hospitals that serve a large uninsured population cover the cost of drugs and provide discounts to patients. However, because Congress never defined an eligible patient and neglected programmatic accountability and transparency, the program has enabled hospitals and contract pharmacies […]
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 […]
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 was enacted to “encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare or man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important […]
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 […]
Government-owned networks (GONs) are an expensive and ineffective response to broadband affordability concerns. On August 31, 2026, the James Madison Institute released a policy brief outlining how municipal broadband projects crowd out private sector investment and leave local taxpayers and energy ratepayers footing the bill. In Ocala, Florida, local officials are proposing to spend an […]
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law on November 15, 2021, included $42.45 billion for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding program, which was intended by Congress to deploy broadband to unserved and underserved communities across the nation. None of those funds were allocated during the remainder of the […]
A lack of repair capacity is hampering the Navy’s submarine fleet, preventing their deployment and decommissioning, and driving up costs. An August 27, 2026, Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that from fiscal year (FY) 2016 to 2025 the Navy spent $3.4 billion “to sustain crews and submarines that provided no operational capability.” Delays have […]
