Week of Jul 6 – 2026 (day: 12)
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TVA's statutory bond cap was set in 1979 and never adjusted…
The SAFE Port Act requires refreshing that plan every 5 yea…
Home sellers and buyers pay brokers roughly $170 billion a…
Planned at six weeks, the test took 14 months -- and the de…
Earned wage access apps advanced over $31.9 billion to roug…
That's against a federal estimate of $40 billion to $70 bil…
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since July…
That's more than three applications for every one of the 77…
Credit card issuers charged Americans $17.0 billion in late…
That's 151,296 undocumented cases -- more than the 112,234…
A 2024 settlement forced Uber and Lyft to pay $175 million…
The Forest Service and NOAA lack a legal authority Interior…
On June 25, 2026, New York City's Rent Guidelines Board vot…
Sixteen months later, GAO applied the identical checklist t…
The CFPB's December 2024 rule would have capped overdraft f…
Three years earlier, GAO's finding covered only DOD but was…
PEIA, the plan covering West Virginia's state employees, te…
GAO called its 2025 cost estimate reliable for the first ti…
New York City's minimum pay rule has pushed app-based deliv…
Down from 28 the year before, a 7% reduction, while 11 enti…
Cryptocurrency fraud cost Americans $11.37 billion in 2025,…
GAO flagged skipped risk practices in 2024; the Army's batt…
Texas credit access businesses collected $1.35 billion in p…
That's two years ahead of the 955,000 FAA projected for 202…
Only 12% of park and recreation agencies could fully staff…
Eleven months later, GAO found SDA had overestimated hardwa…
Outstanding auto loans hit $1.69 trillion in the first quar…
HHS wasn't tracking the sector's ransomware defenses when C…
Americans reported losing more than $12 billion to fraud in…
GAO urged operational testing of the redesigned camera in 2…
Congress built a $46.55 billion emergency fund that made 11…
DoD's IG warned in 2022 the Army never defined 'user accept…
The CFPB found 15 million Americans still carrying $49 bill…
155mm shells took $2.089 billion of the more than $2.8 bill…
Public Service Loan Forgiveness has discharged $93.4 billio…
From FY2021 to FY2023, drug-interdiction hours fell 62% whi…
A $10.5 billion emergency infusion was supposed to keep the…
Since March 2024, overflow calls route there immediately; u…
Federal student loan delinquencies started hitting credit r…
That's about 86% of VA's own original $16.1 billion life-cy…
Auto insurers lost money for three straight years through 2…
The same office has logged 12,391 referrals for unfiled rep…
Down from 12 allotted positions by March 2025 -- and GAO fo…
GAO found the office years behind its own approval targets;…
Estimates of cloud seeding's effect on precipitation still…
The FBI doesn't require states to train officers on watchli…
Test sites fell from 6 to 2 and hiring fell more than 90%;…
A typical recall reaches only 69% of vehicles against NHTSA…
CIGIE's own newest report shows it continuing: 18 more case…
A third of DHS's major programs lost significant staff the…
A quarter of State's buildings are in poor condition; the p…
FSA cited that 46% cut when it dropped servicer checks that…
Madagascar's 2009 closeout ran under a wind-up plan with re…
California, Texas, and Oregon were allowed to substitute th…
The overrun grew from $2.1 billion in 2023; two of the 16 p…
The newest contract, signed in June 2024, has no readiness…
Nearly 15,000 taxpayers lost payment plans in a contractor…
DLA asked the monopoly supplier for cost data on 26 parts a…
CMS fixed Medicare vulnerabilities worth that much and eval…
DOJ says the appropriate penalty was $138 million. GAO says…
DoD's inspector general found 11 of 16 sampled outsourced a…
GAO found none of EDA's performance measures assess disaste…
A field audit of two overlapping grantees found overpayment…
166 of 361 scanners already installed at the southwest bord…
The IRS paid out $283 billion in pandemic tax credits. It s…
GAO tested 10,570 small-business federal research grants fo…
FEMA wants states to handle more of disaster response. Its…
Americans reported $12.5 billion in fraud losses in 2024, b…
A disaster-relief program for farmers now loses nearly half…
It owed $37,824 in unpaid royalties and had 11 other open v…
Fourteen months and five modifications later, FEMA still ha…
The matching agreement HUD needed to run that screening exp…
Colorado's Medicaid autism-therapy spending nearly quadrupl…
The 2021 wave included more than $603 million in payments t…
About a third of the $28.6 billion program; the review pace…
Two VA travel-program audits, eight years apart, found the…
DOJ's inspector general found $14.6 million stuck in unclos…
IRS announced a Puerto Rico tax-incentive compliance campai…
That's 19 times the national rate -- 4.7 minutes per claim…
The system built to replace FAFSA's 30-year-old processing…
GSA's own audit found 77 of 100 sampled products priced mor…
USPS lowballed the gas price that once justified buying gas…
Subchapter V confirmed 52% of small-business reorganization…
The National Health Service Corps repays student loans for…
Congress raised federal funding for FEMA's 28 National Urba…
In fiscal 2025, the Department of War funded facility upkee…
The 1982 formula behind Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend wo…
Federal law requires states to match land-grant research an…
The Bonneville Power Administration, the federal agency tha…
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program has ser…
USDA finalized a rule in January 2025 to cap how much poult…
Guam Memorial Hospital Authority posted an $83.7 million op…
USDA's Wildlife Services program lethally removed about 1.4…
Maryland's Blueprint law set a $60,000 minimum teacher sala…
For three months in 2025 the federal courts had no money to…
The administration's FY2026 budget requested nothing for CC…
The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant is the l…
Indian gaming set a record $43.9 billion in gross revenue i…
Impact Aid reimburses school districts for the federal land…
Medicare paid $9.1 billion for wheelchairs, oxygen, and oth…
The Defense Department's 2024 survey put military spouse un…
Medicare's Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver lets a hospit…
The extended Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit will…
PEIA raised West Virginia public workers' health premiums a…
Between October 2022 and December 20, 2024, USDA reimbursed…
GERS, the plan covering nearly 19,000 Virgin Islands govern…
Californians paid $1.48 billion in CRV deposits in fiscal 2…
The Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program has…
New York capped taxi medallions at 13,589, then earned more…
The federal formula that funds 29 tribally controlled colle…
American, Southwest, and United paid a combined $1.62 billi…
The State Department's own count, as of December 31, 2025:…
On October 15, 2025, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin…
The federal Beef Checkoff takes $1 a head from every one of…
Public two-year colleges enroll 43.4% of the nation's under…
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission —…
The No Surprises Act's arbitration system was sized for a f…
The Department of Labor funded OSHA's Whistleblower Protect…
As of January 2, 2026, 202,345 CDL holders sit in "Prohibit…
Ginnie Mae's mortgage-backed-securities guarantee — the ful…
State spent about $3.1 billion on pay, benefits, and allowa…
The Soo Locks' Poe Lock — 58 years old, and the only chambe…
On November 19, 2025, the Justice Department and the City o…
FMCS's own FY2027 request asks Congress for $7.4 million —…
The U.S. Tax Court is the only forum where a taxpayer can f…
The Legislative Branch runs on $7.258 billion in FY2026, pe…
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program cost the gove…
A federal grant paid four places $30 million a year to offs…
The Public Safety Officers' Benefits program paid a $461,65…
HRSA's latest quarterly count finds 157.1 million Americans…
A 2023 law raised Puerto Rico's Medicaid match to 76 cents…
GAO's first national survey of library building conditions…
The administration's FY2026 budget proposed eliminating the…
In the Rural Emergency Hospital program's first full year,…
In March 2026 the fee ranchers pay to graze cattle on feder…
Michigan's Bureau of Construction Codes grew its budget 17%…
Commercial beekeepers lost 62.3% of their colonies between…
The National Park Service certified $8.64 billion in histor…
Gold, silver, and copper mined from federal land carry no r…
The Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns a…
WAPA's electric system carries $952 million in unaudited li…
In July 2025 the reconciliation law P.L. 119-21 gave the Go…
NARA's own FY2026 budget shows staff falling from 2,796 to…
The Guard Bureau's own 2014 master plan put the bill for Ar…
NYC's school-zone speed cameras billed $244.1 million in fi…
State law requires every California cemetery to set aside a…
From October 2021 through March 2025, the Bureau of Prisons…
The FY2027 request would have grown the Space Force's budge…
Fraudulent 'sober living homes' billed Arizona's Medicaid p…
The Bureau of Land Management spent $101 million in fiscal…
Congress built the Copyright Claims Board in 2020 so creato…
In February 2026 Congress secured funding for the World Tra…
In its own December 2025 report to Congress, the FCC disclo…
The SEC's Office of the Whistleblower fielded roughly 27,00…
A tax-code exemption reshaped by the Tax Reform Act of 1986…
The USGS's 2018 national threat assessment rated 18 U.S. vo…
VA obligated $2.6 billion to the Caregiver Support Program…
NOAA and the Air Force flew 762 tropical-cyclone reconnaiss…
A federal trust fund built from gas taxes on boat engines s…
The Fish and Wildlife Service's FY2027 budget request would…
The High Plains aquifer, one of the largest in North Americ…
In 2023 the Department of Agriculture put $300 million behi…
NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center found the Gulf of…
A one-time statutory boost pushed Medicare's 2026 physician…
Executive Order 14026 raised the minimum wage on federal co…
A 2024 Utah law set the severance tax on Great Salt Lake mi…
The Governor's Office of Information Technology runs the sy…
Massachusetts collected more than $3.1 billion from its 4%…
Nearly every air-quality monitor in the United States is ru…
PEPFAR — 20-plus million people on U.S.-funded HIV treatmen…
GeoXO — the successor to the GOES satellites that watch eve…
In March, responding to the Middle East conflict, the Energ…
PACER charges 10 cents a page to read federal court records…
The Food Safety Modernization Act gave FDA two years to pro…
Freestanding children's hospitals get almost no Medicare gr…
Congress enacted DeFi broker reporting in 2021, then nullif…
The FAA's own construction plan for the nation's airports c…
The Education Department projects Workforce Pell will fund…
In December 2021, the Labor Department warned that typical…
A Section 232 proclamation sets a 100 percent tariff on pat…
The FTC's Funeral Rule requires the nation's 15,401 funeral…
The Farm Credit System's own investor materials call its lo…
The Justice Department's 2025 School Violence Prevention Pr…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act permanently raised the per-p…
U.S. surplus lines insurers wrote $129.8 billion in premium…
The Information Security Oversight Office — the watchdog of…
Northeast recycling markets fell to a five-year low in the…
Super Typhoon Sinlaku brought $39.8 million in FEMA househo…
A body-camera law that took full effect in 2023 produced 67…
The Judicial Council's own 2022 needs assessment found a st…
In fiscal 2022, the nation's public school systems paid $21…
The FDIC's newest Quarterly Banking Profile reports record…
Since 2022, the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All prog…
Michigan's newly enacted FY2027 budget cuts what it sends t…
The Federal Transit Administration awarded $2,027,948,082 a…
American Water Works and Essential Utilities announced an a…
H.R. 1's Title IX appropriates $1,000,000,000 in FEMA secur…
One year after floodwaters killed more than 135 people in t…
The Export-Import Bank loses its authority to do new busine…
211 handled a record 19 million referrals nationwide in 202…
In 2024, EPA banned the only form of asbestos still importe…
The June 2025 announcement finalizing Nippon Steel's takeov…
Congress created two grant programs in 2021 specifically to…
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 locked in Medic…
In 2025, 97 people exonerated of crimes they didn't commit…
The FDIC counted 76,120 FDIC-insured banking offices as of…
A Section 232 proclamation set a 50 percent tariff on most…
Artemis II carried four astronauts 694,481 miles around the…
NJ Transit said its locomotive engineers averaged $135,000…
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority is funded by…
Home builders surveyed by the NAHB and Wells Fargo in April…
NAFSA's economic-impact model puts international students'…
The National Cemetery Administration asks Congress for $1.1…
Three days before the anniversary: the House task force fou…
North Carolina State Parks cut seasonal staffing by roughly…
The Federal Reserve's inspector general put the Eccles and…
IDEA Part C guarantees free early intervention services to…
CMS estimates extending the Medicare-Dependent Hospital and…
Treasury data shows customs duties collected from October 2…
In January 2026, P.L. 119-74 rejected the administration's…
In tax year 2023, 1.25 million households claimed $6.3 bill…
The Corporate Transparency Act passed over a presidential v…
FSIS's own analysis of its proposed poultry line-speed rule…
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state-created…
Nashville's Metro government and the State of Tennessee com…
Citrus greening reached Florida in 2005. Twenty years later…
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act paid $2.74 billion…
Berkeley's adopted FY2027 budget eliminates 150 full-time p…
The 2026 Trustees Report, released June 9, moved the retire…
Puerto Rico's bankrupt power utility will pay creditors jus…
GSA's own September 2025 prospectus prices the FBI's move i…
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association insures 286,251 c…
City officials say slower sales tax and rising overtime lef…
The law's top tier landed on large hospital systems, dialys…
The new ICBM's cost went from $77.7 billion to a certified…
The National Transportation Safety Board is asking Congress…
A March 2026 federal indictment alleges a network bought $2…
The Treasury lost $85.3 million minting one-cent coins in F…
FRA's own regulatory impact analysis puts the ten-year, ind…
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's FY2024-25 Annual Re…
A year after the Guadalupe River flood killed 27 children a…
A federal fund exists to cover fishermen after a fishery co…
The CHIPS and Science Act — passed 64–33 in the Senate — au…
A year-long state budget stalemate left North Carolina's Me…
State courts have resolved more than 70% of debt collection…
The FY2027 budget request cut the office that develops emer…
Federal law makes states spend at least 15% of their rural-…
North Carolina's lottery sold a record $6.6 billion in tick…
HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity fielded…
Section 90003 of last year's reconciliation law appropriate…
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund's year-end balance reach…
Congress's new Visa Integrity Fee is projected to raise $28…
The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund's balance f…
California's constitution puts congressional lines in the h…
The 2025 tax law quadrupled the cap on deducting state and…
SSA's own inspector general found the agency spent $1.77 to…
DOJ recovered a record $6.9 billion under the False Claims…
Since January, the U.S. Department of Transportation has wi…
Eight months into fiscal 2026, Treasury's own ledger shows…
The administration's FY2026 budget proposed cutting the Smi…
New York State's cumulative General Fund gap reaches $27.5…
Since the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act took effect in…
The new car-loan-interest deduction is projected to cost $3…
The Education Department's Office of Federal Student Aid ov…
In October 2025, Colorado's Prescription Drug Affordability…
In December 2023 the Pentagon ordered its hospitals to recl…
On February 2, 2026 the Export-Import Bank's board approved…
Eighteen years into a 'temporary' conservatorship, the mort…
A first-of-its-kind GAO accounting puts combined federal Me…
The Department of Energy loaned Ultium Cells and BlueOval S…
The Legislature's nonpartisan fiscal analyst puts Californi…
GAO's June accounting of the federal workforce — the first…
California auto-enrolls any worker whose employer skips a r…
A state performance audit found North Carolina's DMV collec…
PHL Variable Insurance Company's capital and surplus stood…
SHIP's 12,500 counselors, nearly half of them volunteers, g…
Press Forward's coalition of funders invested at least $405…
Interior split its offshore regulator in two after the 2010…
School-based Medicaid claiming has grown into an estimated…
The VA's electronic health record modernization was sold to…
The city's own audited books show a $199 million liability-…
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program had just poste…
Congress has funded the federal family planning program at…
Federal law now requires the Department of Defense — over $…
The 2025 tax law's overtime deduction is projected to cost…
Barge operators pay a 29-cent-per-gallon fuel tax into the…
The Office of Chief Trial Counsel cost $127 million in fisc…
Duke Energy and Georgia Power now put the lifetime cost of…
In fiscal 2025 the Pentagon's Defense Counterintelligence a…
Treasury's tax watchdog made 91 unannounced visits to IRS T…
FHA insures $63.7 billion in reverse mortgages through a fu…
In July 2025 the EPA announced it would shrink from 16,155…
TriMet's operating gap fell from $300 million to $224 milli…
Since March 2026, Interior has signed settlements returning…
In the first six months of the nation's first packaging pro…
The Department of Energy's environmental liability — the co…
The White House proposed cutting USGS's Natural Hazards Mis…
The Senate Commerce Committee's fix is $4.235 million more…
DOD runs the country's largest employer-sponsored child car…
The Davis-Bacon Act sets minimum pay for 1.2 million constr…
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the core f…
The FTC's own complaint found Deere held 100% market share…
States paid Medicaid managed care plans over $450 billion i…
Fifteen agencies reported an estimated $186 billion in impr…
In fiscal year 2024, 126,944 U.S. foster children — 39% of…
The Congressional Research Service prices the repair backlo…
Warehousing hurt workers at 4.8 cases per 100 in 2024 — mor…
The law funding U.S. public transit at $21.4 billion a year…
Brandon Road is a $1.15 billion barrier against invasive ca…
The National Science Foundation's own FY2027 budget request…
Three federal funding lapses hit the Coast Guard in fiscal…
FEMA is sending $625 million to the 11 U.S. cities hosting…
The DEA's Diversion Control Program is funded entirely by r…
Cook County's Tax Increment Financing districts pulled $2.0…
The Senate parliamentarian struck a plan to eliminate the P…
The FCC's Telecommunications Relay Services Fund will pay o…
HUD's FY2026 budget proposed eliminating the $295.6 million…
Federal law requires a state-certified or state-licensed ap…
Florida cut fluoridated water to 15.3 million residents in…
Repealing two pension offsets will cost $195.7 billion over…
The Secret Service was understaffed by an average of 21.4%…
The Integrity Committee is the body that investigates Ameri…
Congress runs three tiers of land-grant universities. The 1…
The FTC's own FY2027 budget request shows Hart-Scott-Rodino…
Twenty-three million Americans live behind the nation's 6,1…
Federal law requires the Federal Grain Inspection Service t…
The Pentagon obligated at least $2 billion supporting immig…
The federal college-access program for low-income and first…
180,701 people were enrolled in ICE's Alternatives to Deten…
EPA modeled a health risk starting at 1 part per billion of…
A House committee says Governor Walz and Attorney General E…
In 2020, America's 2,347 state prosecutor offices spent $6.…
The Small Business Administration's own inspector general f…
Since 1995, EPA's Brownfields Program has leveraged $3 bill…
The Peace Corps' FY2026 appropriation is $410.5 million — a…
Treasury killed Direct File in October 2025, calling the fr…
In 2023 the chip industry's own trade group projected 67,00…
A state audit found 8,845 North Carolina government jobs si…
The Federal Election Commission has run without a quorum si…
The IRS's own program counted 572,000 delinquent federal em…
Fish and Wildlife's Listing program — the office that decid…
A July 2025 SAMHSA letter listed fentanyl and xylazine test…
Chicago's four pension funds were 26.2% funded at the close…
The Medicare Savings Programs pay Part B premiums — and, at…
The Bureau of Indian Education's own FY2026 budget puts its…
California more than doubled its film and TV tax credit to…
The Administration proposed cutting the Appalachian Regiona…
In the first half of 2025 the U.S. Forest Service lost 5,86…
The 2021 infrastructure law set aside $11.293 billion for a…
A $1M/$3M malpractice policy costs Florida's obstetricians…
801 employers hold federal certificates that let them pay d…
FRA's own Fiscal Year 2024 Enforcement Report puts civil pe…
CDFI Program awardees originated $24.48 billion in loans in…
In 2017 SSA began building one system to manage overpayment…
In 2021, HHS awarded a $529 million sole-source shelter con…
FEMA branded its own disaster-mitigation grants a "wasteful…
Cargo theft losses in the U.S. and Canada surged 60% to an…
On July 7, 2026, USDOT handed five states $62 million to ad…
Cal/OSHA has opened 138 inspections of California's enginee…
Chicago Public Schools' own FY2026 budget book forecast a $…
In 2019, USDA moved two research agencies to Kansas City on…
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 funds OSHA enforc…
Federal rules let CMS fine a hospital up to $2,007,500 a ye…
CMS cut ACA Navigator Program funding from $99.9 million to…
Federal law requires the USDA to inspect every licensed bre…
The House v. NCAA settlement approved $2.576 billion in bac…
TRANSCOM gave HomeSafe Alliance a $17.9 billion, nine-year…
The U.S. cattle herd fell to 86.2 million head on January 1…
In 2024, 290,027 checks run through the FBI's instant backg…
Foreign Military Sales hit $117.9 billion in FY2024, up 45.…
The American Red Cross's blood-collection arm took in $2.31…
VA's Digital GI Bill platform was supposed to retire a paym…
Meta's $10 billion Richland Parish data center is 721 times…
The 811 locate system fielded 43.5 million requests in 2024…
On April 3, 2026, the International Association of Forensic…
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities dra…
USDA's Rural Utilities Service can lend $7.0 billion for ru…
AB 1054 built the Wildfire Fund as a $21 billion shock abso…
The MTA lost about $918 million to subway and bus fare evas…
In fiscal 2021 the IRS improperly paid $26.1 billion of the…
Portland cut its 911 dispatcher vacancies from 33 to 6 in t…
San Francisco has $281.6 billion in assessed property value…
The U.S. logged 2,170 measles cases through July 2, 2026 —…
The federal program that sends nurses and case workers into…
Election administration in the United States runs $4 billio…
Federal law requires every foreign ship on the Great Lakes…
The Association of State Floodplain Managers put the cost o…
GAO's audits produced $62.7 billion in financial benefits i…
Trump Accounts are a $17.3 billion, 10-year commitment, per…
Starting January 2026, CMS is paying outside contractors a…
Transit agencies nationwide spent $7.06 billion on door-to-…
In its most recent report to Congress, filed August 2023, U…
The 2025 tax law lets tipped workers deduct up to $25,000 a…
Nearly half of the people teaching America's college classe…
The Pittman-Robertson Act sent $914.4 million in federal ex…
Colorado's constitution requires refunding tax revenue coll…
The city's own budget offices put the two-year General Fund…
Maryland's Joint Enforcement Task Force on Workplace Fraud…
Texas municipal courts collected $552.8 million in fines an…
Harrisburg's Independent Fiscal Office puts the state's bui…
Wyoming's Highway Patrol carries a 15% vacancy rate on its…
Starting in tax year 2027, donors get a federal credit wort…
Advanced-practice nurses earn a median $129,480; the profes…
A missing clause in Congress's own funding bill nearly forc…
Foodborne illness costs the country $74.7 billion a year, t…
17 million Americans live in manufactured housing, most of…
Washington State Ferries closed its crew gap fast — deck an…
The Defense Commissary Agency runs on a direct taxpayer app…
Federal agencies spent $181.6 million on collective bargain…
The U.S. Marshals Service held 56,155 people a day in FY202…
New York City's jails employ 5,759 uniformed officers for 6…
The CLARITY Act would give the CFTC jurisdiction over crypt…
Congress just made the Opportunity Zone tax break permanent…
First-year pilot pay at regional airlines climbed from $52…
Eight registered tests across three free public data stream…
In April 2025 the department discontinued roughly $1 billio…
Auctioning the public's airwaves has cost the government le…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's FY2026…
The federal-state program exists to get people with disabil…
In fiscal year 2025 the Justice Department's COPS Hiring Pr…
USDA's Dairy Margin Coverage program paid dairy producers $…
The USGS's Federal Priority Streamgage network is funded fo…
OSHA's proposed heat-safety standard would cost employers $…
Medicare Part B spending on "skin substitutes" rose from $2…
Palisades and Crane were both headed for the scrapyard. Now…
The California Earthquake Authority reports $19.4 billion i…
CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to advocate for chi…
Read from one standardized register — the California State…
Mountain View's FY2025-26 General Fund budgets $204.2M acro…
The 43-day shutdown left the Treasury owing about $5 billio…
The Bureau of Land Management's own FY2027 budget plan shri…
WIOA Title I — the country's core public job-training syste…
The FAA asked for $1.876 billion to run its Aviation Safety…
The American Hospital Association puts 2025 hospital workfo…
U.S. states collected a record $18.09 billion in gambling t…
The State Department deployed 600 extra consular officers w…
Virginia's sales-tax exemption for data centers cost $1.94…
Commercial trucking insurers lost $4.9 billion in 2024, a 1…
Hospitals spent 20 million staff hours and nearly $900 mill…
The EPA's latest national survey puts the 20-year cost of f…
The Farm Service Agency obligated $6.7 billion in direct an…
Florida let condo boards vote to waive saving for their own…
In 2025, licensed cannabis sales sent California $1.04 bill…
A U.S. district judge ruled in March 2026 that the near-tot…
States collectively owe $552 billion more in retiree health…
In six months, banks reported $688 million in mail theft-re…
The FAA licenses every commercial rocket launch and reentry…
3,681,900 Americans are on probation or parole — supervisio…
Four of every five federal IT dollars in fiscal 2025 — $83…
Associated Builders and Contractors says the industry must…
For the first time in the program's 60-year history, Medica…
In July 2025 the Department of War paid $400 million for a…
The Justice Department's own inspector general found 58% of…
Federal law lets Washington cancel the loans of students st…
A 1.65% fee on Alaska groundfish and halibut landings funds…
New World screwworm — eradicated from the United States in…
Federal jurors are paid $50 a day, unchanged since 2018 and…
The Interior Department sent $733 million to more than 1,90…
The rest — $111 million, 72% of the total — was credited or…
In March 2025, HHS voided nearly 700 pandemic-era public he…
The funds that pay 37 million public workers and retirees c…
Congress gave the Bureau of Reclamation $4 billion to fight…
States have paid out $20 billion of their own money since 2…
The federal mortgage insurer backing $1.65 trillion in home…
The State Department issued a record 27.3 million passports…
HRSA's own report to Congress puts the federal share of a p…
5.7 million people and organizations manage $81.4 billion a…
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was funded at $2,571,041,00…
Congress set aside $3 billion to eliminate the country's mo…
American insurers wrote $9.14 billion in cyber coverage in…
The Army missed its 2022 goal by 15,000 soldiers; in 2025 i…
In 2025 the industry collected $18.5 billion in premiums an…
Medicaid financed $15.2 billion of the nation's $189.2 bill…
TSA's new $45 ConfirmID fee is built to collect $476 millio…
A federal court found that Texans ruled incompetent to stan…
The Older Americans Act names $21.9 million a year for the…
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' own report to Congress puts t…
In 2024 the government set the first-ever national standard…
In 2024 the Illinois Tollway brought in $1.58 billion in to…
The Court Interpreters Program spends $135 million a year s…
The FY2026 spending law kept the federal government's main…
In April 2025 the National Endowment for the Humanities ter…
The No Surprises Act's dispute portal is handling volume CM…
USPTO spends $4.996 billion a year and takes $0 net from Co…
Medicaid finances 46.9% of rural births — more than in any…
The Employee Benefits Security Administration polices $14 t…
The Consumer Price Index set a $56-a-month raise for the av…
MSPB received 20,335 appeals in fiscal 2025 — four times a…
National spending on student transportation hit $30.2 billi…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's own figure: deaths…
The federal government spent $661 million running the Freed…
Ten Florida homeowners insurers collapsed between 2021 and…
Massachusetts placed driver's licenses into nonrenewal stat…
Summer EBT pays $120 per child for groceries when school lu…
Every EB-5 investor puts up at least $800,000 and must crea…
USDA froze its only loan-repayment program for large-animal…
Illinois landfills have about 20 years of room left statewi…
The Federal Home Loan Bank System earned $6.36 billion in 2…
Hostile communications against the federal judiciary jumped…
The National Endowment for the Arts turns $207 million a ye…
The Emergency Food Assistance Program moved $2.24 billion i…
A 2021 infrastructure surge let the federal weatherization…
Part B can't go bankrupt like Social Security's trust fund…
The nation's publicly funded crime labs closed 2020 with 71…
Wellpath — 420 facilities, 39 states, roughly 200,000 patie…
A distribution transformer's producer price rose roughly 40…
Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania sold 645,00…
American bridges need $467 billion in repairs — 220,295 spa…
Federal Prison Industries booked $464.9 million in sales in…
The county budgeted $452.65 million to run its juvenile hal…
The Treasury office built after 2008 to watch for the next…
Medicare hospice spending hit $28.3 billion in 2024, up 10%…
Kidney failure has been a Medicare entitlement regardless o…
NASA's FY2026 budget survived Congress down just 1.6%. Its…
Congress enacted the EEOC's FY2026 budget $19.6 million bel…
An independent federal board now puts GSA's deferred-mainte…
Starting January 1, 2026, a 1% federal tax hits money sent…
A 2016 law promised time-and-a-half to California's roughly…
Since January 2025, developers have cancelled, closed, or d…
The federal refugee ceiling was cut 94% to a record-low 7,5…
The agency that examines and insures 4,287 credit unions ho…
The industry fees that fund FDA drug reviews and plant insp…
In October 2024 the Small Business Administration ran out o…
Chapter 13 trustees distributed $4.4 billion in FY2025 for…
In fiscal 2025 the Small Business Administration paid $5.2…
Georgia's four-year pilot of Medicaid work requirements spe…
In fiscal 2025 the SEC fielded a record 53,753 tips and tou…
Every one of the 146.3 million U.S. jobs covered by workers…
The Forest Service and Interior spent $7.3 billion fighting…
USCIS ended June 2025 with a net backlog of 5.4 million cas…
The Maritime Security Program pays private operators $390 m…
Congress let Trade Adjustment Assistance's authorization la…
In December 2025, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predict…
America's 2,036 medical examiner and coroner offices spend…
Acting Director Russell Vought called the Bureau's $711.6 m…
The White House's FY2026 budget proposed eliminating the Co…
DOD's costliest weapon programs now total $2.4 trillion, up…
The Institute of Museum and Library Services runs on a $294…
In 2022 the CSB inherited 17 unfinished chemical-accident i…
VA hospitals reported 4,434 severe staffing shortages in 20…
New York's Master Plan for Aging says a statewide guardians…
The 2025 reconciliation law gave Border Patrol $6.15 billio…
The Big 3 pharmacy benefit managers — arms of CVS, Cigna, a…
The Pentagon routed $5.4 billion in FY2025 payments straigh…
California safeguards more than $15 billion in unclaimed pr…
Customs has collected over $1 billion in duties on 246 mill…
The federal government's own workers' compensation program…
The Department of Energy estimated in 2015 that replacing e…
Medicare pays $21.2 billion a year to train the nation's re…
In FY2025, the Justice Department's forfeiture fund paid $4…
EPA's latest survey puts unfunded wastewater and stormwater…
The 2024 rule setting the first drinking-water limits on PF…
The Legislature earmarked $30 million to recruit court repo…
In fiscal 2024 the IRS paid $15.9 billion in erroneous Earn…
Federal investigators counted 773 minors in hazardous-job v…
In June 2026 the Supreme Court ruled Isabella County, Michi…
In March 2025, HHS moved to cancel $11 billion in public he…
The Fed hasn't sent Congress a dollar of profit since Septe…
APHIS has committed $1.2 billion in indemnity to poultry pr…
Nine years after Hurricane Maria, federal agencies have obl…
SSA cut its disability claims backlog 25% to 865,000 and ca…
Shipyards are building Virginia-class submarines at half th…
The Legal Services Corporation asked for $2.13 billion to s…
USDA's own FY2026 budget request calls the cut to 8,000 FSI…
The IRS shed roughly 19,000 employees — about a fifth of it…
A short-selling signal built from free FINRA data appeared…
Washington's Paid Family and Medical Leave account lost $15…
In 2008, voters approved bonds for an 800-mile high-speed r…
Congress handed states $3.27 billion to build a national EV…
The Army Corps of Engineers has $45 billion in already-appr…
The government's first industry-wide accounting of ground-a…
In 2023 the for-hire trucking industry lost $11.5 billion i…
$1.6 billion in federal money built the 988 crisis line sin…
Volunteer labor that would cost $46.9 billion a year to rep…
In fiscal 2024 the IRS Whistleblower Office grew from 49 to…
The National School Lunch Program feeds 29.4 million childr…
A JAMA analysis of NIH's own award data found 694 grants te…
MSHA's appropriation has been frozen at exactly $387,816,00…
OBBBA raised the Child Tax Credit to $2,200 a child and it…
Rehabilitating the nation's non-federal dams would cost $16…
The National Labor Relations Board's own FY2025 budget requ…
Transplant hospitals pay $1,036 per patient to fund the net…
EPA's Superfund account fell from $537.7 million to $282.8…
$312.9 billion paid for Medicaid home and community-based c…
Registered Apprenticeship's dedicated federal grant line gr…
Drug manufacturers front $81.4 billion a year in discounts…
Congress caps seasonal guest-worker visas at 66,000 a year.…
On July 1, OPM ended 65 years of paper federal retirement p…
Fifty-five years after the OSH Act, federal OSHA has the fe…
The 1998 tobacco settlement and state cigarette taxes will…
The Children's Health Insurance Program spent $17.4 billion…
The Coast Guard's own baseline put three new heavy icebreak…
The 2026 budget proposed cutting the nation's civilian cybe…
The Older Americans Act's Nutrition Program held at $1.059…
Every federal defendant is guaranteed a lawyer. In 2025 the…
In exchange for tax-exempt status, nonprofit hospitals are…
New York collects a $1.20-a-month 911 surcharge on every wi…
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put $4.677 billi…
664,200 people were held in local jails at midyear 2023. 70…
Ratepayers and interest built a $49.5 billion trust fund to…
The FY2026 Continuum of Care overhaul turns 40 cents of eve…
In March 2025, Education put 299 of its 575 Office for Civi…
Since June 2025 the Administration has sent National Guard…
$5.5 billion of TSA's $11.6 billion FY2026 budget request —…
More than a third of the $14.4 billion that funded rail wor…
Essential Air Service pays airlines to keep 177 small commu…
A voluntary CMS 'demonstration' cut the average stand-alone…
In 2025 the FDIC finished collecting a special assessment f…
The federal government paid an estimated $11.1 billion to $…
In 2025 Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund took in $1…
A first-of-its-kind federal survey tracked every residentia…
USAID's programs, staff, and money all collapsed in 2025. 8…
Washington wants the fastest nuclear buildout in decades, a…
Independent researchers who examined actual renovation cost…
Congress gave Amtrak $22 billion in one-time infrastructure…
In fiscal year 2024 the federal-state child support program…
The Wage and Hour Division clawed back $259 million in stol…
A September 2025 proclamation added a $100,000 charge to ne…
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund holds $4.66 bill…
In 1975 Congress set the federal funding target for special…
In 2024 the FCC capped prison calls at 6 cents a minute and…
In May 2025 the government moved to pause all 99 contractor…
HUD funded 2026's $34.6 billion in Housing Choice Voucher r…
The Community Health Center Fund supplies about 70% of fede…
In fiscal 2024 the Coast Guard put off $179 million in cutt…
New York City spent $217 million in fiscal 2025 guaranteein…
As of January 2026, California owes the federal government…
PBGC's single-employer program spent most of the 2010s unde…
DOGE terminated 41% of AmeriCorps' grant funding in a singl…
The Rural Health Transformation Program promises $50 billio…
Congress clawed back two years of already-appropriated fund…
The Crime Victims Fund pays no tax dollars — only fines, fo…
In fiscal 2025 the Black Lung Benefits Program paid 22,499…
Tribal leaders calculated it would take $63.04 billion to f…
In October 2025, the Department of Labor rewrote the wage f…
Formulas built on Census Bureau data steer $2.85 trillion i…
The federal grant that pays states to secure elections peak…
The National Park Service logged 331.9 million visits in 20…
Washington converted $8.9 billion of Intel's CHIPS Act awar…
Employers paid $103 billion into workers' compensation in 2…
The Postal Service's FY2025 revenue of $80.5 billion fell $…
The federal government put $12.3 billion into child care su…
The Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February…
Congress just made the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit perman…
Congress spent 2026 fighting over whether to cut Title I's…
Chicago-area transit agencies warned a $770 million 2026 sh…
The number of U.S. children in foster care has fallen 18.6%…
CMS's own math: repealing the federal minimum-staffing rule…
The VA's disability claims backlog fell from 264,000 in Jan…
USDA forecasts $44.3 billion in direct government payments…
The FCC's Universal Service Fund charges carriers a cut of…
The IRS lost 31,273 employees — 30 percent of its workforce…
Supplemental Security Income caps a recipient's savings at…
The House's 2027 farm bill funds WIC at $8.0 billion — $200…
HHS illegally withheld $825 million in Head Start payments…
Congress fixed the federal welfare block grant at $16.4 bil…
$58.6 billion in opioid settlements has been finalized sinc…
Congress left the $589.5 million account that pays National…
Federal SNAP spending topped $101.7 billion in FY2025, serv…
The federal judiciary is asking for $9.4 billion, a 9.3% in…
Data-center demand added $23.1 billion to PJM's capacity ma…
Interior asked Congress for $6.55 billion and the legal aut…
Congress raised Housing Choice Voucher funding to $38.4 bil…
Since 2021, Washington has sent $77.9 billion in one-time g…
The state Supreme Court capped felony caseloads at 47 a yea…
MedPAC estimates the federal government will overpay Medica…
FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund pays disaster survivors and the…
The immigration judge corps fell from 735 to 557 between la…
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program pushed $4.1 b…
Congress let enhanced ACA tax credits lapse at the end of 2…
The National Flood Insurance Program borrowed $2 billion fr…
Congress has shifted $275 billion in general revenue into t…
Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk…
The 2025 reconciliation law replaced a flat 1.4% tax on uni…
The Bureau of Prisons employed about 20,000 correctional of…
Federal crop insurance has grown from under 379 million acr…
Congress funded BEAD, the federal broadband build-out progr…
The ILA's new six-year contract with U.S. port employers, c…
The EPA spent years estimating that 9 million lead water li…
Illinois' five state pension systems are $142 billion short…
PJM, the grid operator for roughly 65 million people across…
NYC's congestion pricing program collected about $550 milli…
The FAA has been thousands of certified controllers short o…
The California FAIR Plan was a niche backstop for homes pri…
The 2025 reconciliation law cuts $911 billion in federal Me…
Congress authorized $75 billion for ICE in a single bill th…
99.6 cents of every Social Security dollar is somebody's ch…