Letter to Secretary Hegseth: End "Use-It-or-Lose-It" Spending Sprees This Year
Open the Books released a report last week detailing 20 areas of fiscal concern at the Department of Defense.| OpenTheBooks
Open the Books released a report last week detailing 20 areas of fiscal concern at the Department of Defense.| OpenTheBooks
Our investigators exposed systemic problems with contracting, grantmaking and tracking expenses| OpenTheBooks
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of Open the Books founder Adam Andrzejewski.| openthebooks.substack.com
Big-Pharma, Chinese and Russian companies, and nefarious characters from around the world all benefited by licensing tech developed at the National Institutes of Health and paid for by U.S. taxpayers.| openthebooks.substack.com
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist likely to be the next mayor of New York City, won the June democratic primary with the promise of making the city more affordable.| OpenTheBooks
Earlier in August the Trump administration announced it would close the federal funding spigot to a major part of the University of California system, UCLA.| OpenTheBooks
The bill would cast sunlight on the multibillion-dollar government royalty complex.| openthebooks.substack.com
Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service members.| openthebooks.substack.com
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has faced questions over transparency, conflict of interest.| openthebooks.substack.com
In his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year, President Trump promised to "conquer the frontiers of science." Many journalists and critics then feigned confusion when his budget took direct aim at the National Science Foundation, slashing funding by 55%, to $3.9 billion.| OpenTheBooks
Wait times for public records have become so long they undercut the accountability FOIA is meant to provide.| openthebooks.substack.com
The administration created new roles on criminal pardons, energy production, and more.| OpenTheBooks
They may not be rich enough to hassle the Hoff yet, but they’re getting there.| openthebooks.substack.com
President Trump, like all presidents, at least attempts to use the language of strategic ambiguity when discussing matters related to national security.| OpenTheBooks
Israel has enjoyed generous support from the United States for nearly 75 years.| OpenTheBooks
Pandemic lockdowns, retirements partly to blame for billion-dollar overtime costs.| openthebooks.substack.com
As federal agents are confronted by riots in Los Angeles over the arrest and deportation of criminal illegal aliens, it is worth exploring how the state, and even the federal government, have been funding nonprofits that facilitate migration and advocate for open-borders policies locally and nationwide.| OpenTheBooks
DOGE and Pres. Trump have each made shocking claims about the program, but the confusion around them demonstrates the government still has an enormous transparency problem.| openthebooks.substack.com
Our Review of DOGE’s Work Shows It's Up to Congress to Enact Savings| OpenTheBooks
These associations are using your tax dollars to grow their ranks & spread ideological extremism...| openthebooks.substack.com
As Elon Musk steps back, Congress, agencies and We the People need to step up.| openthebooks.substack.com
It's an opening bid in a consequential negotiation over the future of the federal government.| openthebooks.substack.com
It takes tuition payments from nearly 1,000 undergraduates just to pay their base salaries!| openthebooks.substack.com
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform will spend today investigating how to address the crisis of improper payments made by the federal government each year.| openthebooks.substack.com
$127M was spent just studying and countering Covid-related speech.| openthebooks.substack.com
Chaos reigns on the vice president’s staff. And Harris tried to hide it by claiming that her office is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).| openthebooks.substack.com
However, since 2021, only 127 of President Joe Biden’s initial 560 White House employees remain – a stunning 77-percent turnover rate.| openthebooks.substack.com
NIH covered up longtime payment scheme. We sued twice in federal court. We are winning. Here’s their production – so far.| openthebooks.substack.com
Troubling grants and contracts classified in the federal database funded anti-Israel curriculums, professorships, and tuition.| openthebooks.substack.com
It’s the report that no one in Washington D.C. wants to talk about.| openthebooks.substack.com
Quantifying U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks, And Federal Payments Into The Ivy League Colleges Plus Stanford And Northwestern (2018-2022)| openthebooks.substack.com
