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THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start.TAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TIMELINE 1798: Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. It provides health services to members of the merchant marine and funds a loose network of hospitals through the Marine Hospital Fund.1 The MHF is plagued by cost overruns, administrative mismanagement, and rationing of care.2 Some leaders oppose the new federal subsidies as an abuse of state sovereignty.3 WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD, PTO, VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), I ran across a story of federal failure that the national media has overlooked. One of the PMAs, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), POLICE SPENDING SOARS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL Some protestors are calling for defunding the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death and other incidents of police misconduct. However, just 16 percent of Americans favor cutting police budgets, notes Emily Ekins.More people favor police department reforms such as better training and increased accountability. That said, police budgets should be examined, particularly since policing CAPITOL POLICE FUNDING The attack on Capitol Hill yesterday was disgraceful. It was also remarkable. After all the security breaches at both the congressional complex and White House over the years, and the many large protests in the city, you would think that the Capitol Police would have beenbetter prepared.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.” SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.” However, the lofty goals of CAPITAL GAINS TAXES: ALREADY TOO HIGH Democrats are proposing to raise capital gains taxes. Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, wants to tax capital gainson
CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE I haven’t followed the controversies surrounding Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama. However, her tenure as the CEO of a company that received federal money to run a public housing project deserves further scrutiny. DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start.TAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TIMELINE 1798: Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. It provides health services to members of the merchant marine and funds a loose network of hospitals through the Marine Hospital Fund.1 The MHF is plagued by cost overruns, administrative mismanagement, and rationing of care.2 Some leaders oppose the new federal subsidies as an abuse of state sovereignty.3 WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD, PTO, VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), I ran across a story of federal failure that the national media has overlooked. One of the PMAs, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), POLICE SPENDING SOARS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL Some protestors are calling for defunding the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death and other incidents of police misconduct. However, just 16 percent of Americans favor cutting police budgets, notes Emily Ekins.More people favor police department reforms such as better training and increased accountability. That said, police budgets should be examined, particularly since policing CAPITOL POLICE FUNDING The attack on Capitol Hill yesterday was disgraceful. It was also remarkable. After all the security breaches at both the congressional complex and White House over the years, and the many large protests in the city, you would think that the Capitol Police would have beenbetter prepared.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.” SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.” However, the lofty goals of CAPITAL GAINS TAXES: ALREADY TOO HIGH Democrats are proposing to raise capital gains taxes. Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, wants to tax capital gainson
CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE I haven’t followed the controversies surrounding Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama. However, her tenure as the CEO of a company that received federal money to run a public housing project deserves further scrutiny. A BRIEF HISTORY OF FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATIONS Large-scale federal intervention into America’s energy markets began in the 1930s and continued through the 1970s. A series of major laws and executive actions sought to control energy prices, restrict competition, and limit imports. In the late 1970s, policymakers began reversing course and largely deregulated markets for oil, natural gas,and coal.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
FLOOD INSURANCE SUBSIDIES Uncle Sam is essentially broke. But the federal government keeps spending. The House is voting this week on a measure already adopted by the U.S. Senate to suspend money-saving reforms adopted less thantwo years ago.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT CREATES WEALTH INEQUALITY There are economic storm clouds on the horizon, but for now wages are rising, jobs are plentiful, and poverty is falling. Democrats running for president need an economic line of attack, so the solution has been to focus on wealth inequality. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TIMELINE 1789: The U.S. Constitution goes into effect. The federal government’s enumerated powers do not include the creation of farm and food subsidy programs. 1820: The House of Representatives creates an agriculture committee. The Senate follows suit in 1825. 1840: The first Census of Agriculture is completed. 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is established. CAPITAL GAINS TAXES: ALREADY TOO HIGH Democrats are proposing to raise capital gains taxes. Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, wants to tax capital gainson
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE LAWS Supporters of minimum wages might believe that these laws mainly help to boost the incomes of full-time adult workers in low-income families, some of whom are supporting children. DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
DEFENSE | DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The Department of Defense oversees a vast array of people and assets at home and abroad. We would improve the nation's security by reducing our global overreach and adopting a more restrained and defensive strategy. We should cut the number of military personnel and reduce overseas deployments to save money and relieve burdens on military families. The department will spend $652 billion in FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TIMELINE 1798: Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. It provides health services to members of the merchant marine and funds a loose network of hospitals through the Marine Hospital Fund.1 The MHF is plagued by cost overruns, administrative mismanagement, and rationing of care.2 Some leaders oppose the new federal subsidies as an abuse of state sovereignty.3 HURRICANE KATRINA: REMEMBERING THE FEDERAL FAILURES Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and generated a huge disaster. The storm flooded New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people, and caused $100 billion in property damage. The storm’s damage was greatly exacerbated by the failures of Congress, the Bush administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Army Corps of Engineers. SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
DEFENSE | DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The Department of Defense oversees a vast array of people and assets at home and abroad. We would improve the nation's security by reducing our global overreach and adopting a more restrained and defensive strategy. We should cut the number of military personnel and reduce overseas deployments to save money and relieve burdens on military families. The department will spend $652 billion in FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TIMELINE 1798: Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. It provides health services to members of the merchant marine and funds a loose network of hospitals through the Marine Hospital Fund.1 The MHF is plagued by cost overruns, administrative mismanagement, and rationing of care.2 Some leaders oppose the new federal subsidies as an abuse of state sovereignty.3 HURRICANE KATRINA: REMEMBERING THE FEDERAL FAILURES Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and generated a huge disaster. The storm flooded New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people, and caused $100 billion in property damage. The storm’s damage was greatly exacerbated by the failures of Congress, the Bush administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Army Corps of Engineers. SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government DEFENSE | DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The Department of Defense oversees a vast array of people and assets at home and abroad. We would improve the nation's security by reducing our global overreach and adopting a more restrained and defensive strategy. We should cut the number of military personnel and reduce overseas deployments to save money and relieve burdens on military families. The department will spend $652 billion in PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I madeTRANSPORTATION
The Department of Transportation subsidizes and regulates highways, airports, air traffic control, urban transit, passenger rail, and other activities. However, taxpayers and consumers would be better off if transportation activities were privatized, which has been a global trend. Opening up the financing and operation of infrastructure to the private sector would save money, spur innovationHUD SCANDALS
The $65 billion Department of Housing and Urban Development has been plagued by mismanagement and scandal in recent decades. Numerous HUD secretaries have used their power to enrich themselves or to confer special benefits on people with political and financial connections. This essay looks at HUD mismanagement during the tenures of four HUD secretaries under three recentTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips PUBLIC HOUSING AND RENTAL SUBSIDIES From Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama, American presidents and their housing administrators have cut ribbons on subsidized housing projects and announced new housing initiatives aimed at uplifting the poor. The specific policies have changed over time, but the theory has always been that federal aid is needed because private markets fail to provide adequate housing for people with SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve MINIMUM WAGE EFFECTS Minimum Wage Effects. President Biden has proposed doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Democrats have pushed to include the increase in their $1.9 trillion relief bill being debated in Congress. But with millions of people unemployed and small businesses struggling, now would be an awful time to impose sucha
CAPITOL POLICE FUNDING The chart shows that outlays for the Capitol Police have soared over the past two decades. In actual or nominal dollars, spending increased from $115 million in fiscal 2000 to an estimated $516 million in fiscal 2021. That equals an annual average growth rate of 7.4 percent, much faster than the 2.1 percent average annual inflation over theperiod.
POLICE SPENDING SOARS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL The data are charted below as a percent of GDP from 1960 to 2018. Spending on state‐local police rose as a share of GDP from 1990 to 2010 but has declined since then. Spending as a share of GDP is about one‐third higher today than in the 1980s. Meanwhile, federal police spending has skyrocketed from 0.05 percent of GDP in the 1980s, on WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve MINIMUM WAGE EFFECTS Minimum Wage Effects. President Biden has proposed doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Democrats have pushed to include the increase in their $1.9 trillion relief bill being debated in Congress. But with millions of people unemployed and small businesses struggling, now would be an awful time to impose sucha
CAPITOL POLICE FUNDING The chart shows that outlays for the Capitol Police have soared over the past two decades. In actual or nominal dollars, spending increased from $115 million in fiscal 2000 to an estimated $516 million in fiscal 2021. That equals an annual average growth rate of 7.4 percent, much faster than the 2.1 percent average annual inflation over theperiod.
POLICE SPENDING SOARS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL The data are charted below as a percent of GDP from 1960 to 2018. Spending on state‐local police rose as a share of GDP from 1990 to 2010 but has declined since then. Spending as a share of GDP is about one‐third higher today than in the 1980s. Meanwhile, federal police spending has skyrocketed from 0.05 percent of GDP in the 1980s, on WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. A BRIEF HISTORY OF FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATIONS Large-scale federal intervention into America’s energy markets began in the 1930s and continued through the 1970s. A series of major laws and executive actions sought to control energy prices, restrict competition, and limit imports. In the late 1970s, policymakers began reversing course and largely deregulated markets for oil, natural gas,and coal.
THE BIG DIG
With Boston’s Big Dig highway project in the news, a brief review of the project’s finances is in order. As the project was getting started in 1985, government officials claimed that it would cost $2.6 billion and be completed by 1998. The cost ultimately ballooned to $14.6 billion and new problems continue to arise as the project finally nears completion. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TIMELINE 1798: Congress passes the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. It provides health services to members of the merchant marine and funds a loose network of hospitals through the Marine Hospital Fund.1 The MHF is plagued by cost overruns, administrative mismanagement, and rationing of care.2 Some leaders oppose the new federal subsidies as an abuse of state sovereignty.3 MINIMUM WAGE EFFECTS Minimum Wage Effects. President Biden has proposed doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Democrats have pushed to include the increase in their $1.9 trillion relief bill being debated in Congress. But with millions of people unemployed and small businesses struggling, now would be an awful time to impose sucha
STATE AND LOCAL TAX DIFFERENCES State-local taxes are 14.7 percent of personal income in the largest outflow state, New York, but they are just 7.5 percent in the largest inflow state, Florida. Florida’s government costs half as much as New York’s, yet the services are probably just as good. There are large tax differences between cities. The District of Columbia HOW THE GOVERNMENT CREATES WEALTH INEQUALITY That is the good news. The bad news is that the government itself generates wealth inequality in at least two ways that make us worse off. First, governments give subsidies, regulatory preferences, and other crony-capitalist benefits to wealthy insiders. In the recent Fat Leonard scandal, for example, Leonard Francis gained hundreds ofmillions
WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale fraud and abuse WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips TANF AND FEDERAL WELFARE The federal government funds a large range of subsidy programs for low-income Americans, from food stamps to Medicaid. This essay examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is a joint federal-state cash assistance program for low-income families with children. When most people think of "welfare," they are thinkingof this program.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale fraud and abuse WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. TANF AND FEDERAL WELFARE The federal government funds a large range of subsidy programs for low-income Americans, from food stamps to Medicaid. This essay examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is a joint federal-state cash assistance program for low-income families with children. When most people think of "welfare," they are thinkingof this program.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale fraud and abuse WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. TANF AND FEDERAL WELFARE The federal government funds a large range of subsidy programs for low-income Americans, from food stamps to Medicaid. This essay examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is a joint federal-state cash assistance program for low-income families with children. When most people think of "welfare," they are thinkingof this program.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD SNAP: $15 Billion on Junk Food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.”. SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.”. However, the lofty goals of federal programs often differ from the actual results. THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year. But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale fraud and abuse WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. TANF AND FEDERAL WELFARE The federal government funds a large range of subsidy programs for low-income Americans, from food stamps to Medicaid. This essay examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is a joint federal-state cash assistance program for low-income families with children. When most people think of "welfare," they are thinkingof this program.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF WAPA: The Federal Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of. Chris Edwards. January 25, 2018. It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD , PTO , VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), Iran across
DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.” SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.” However, the lofty goals of THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE I haven’t followed the controversies surrounding Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama. However, her tenure as the CEO of a company that received federal money to run a public housing project deserves further scrutiny. DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTDEPARTMENTSABOUTBLOGFEDERAL POLICY BASICSSPENDING CHARTSHIGH-SPEED RAIL A department-by-department guide to cutting the federal government'sbudget.
RE-REINVENTING GOVERNMENT Paul Light, an expert on the federal bureaucracy, has written a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal that examines several cost-cutting efforts the government should undertake. Light suggests saving hundreds of billions of dollars by trimming managerial fat, eliminating positions through attrition, and making government employees more productive. PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING President Obama has issued his final federal budget, which includes his proposed spending for 2017. With this data, we can compare spending growth over eight years under Obama to spending growth under past presidents.Figures 1 and 2 show annual average real (inflation-adjusted) spending growth during presidential terms back to Eisenhower. The data comes from Table 6.1 here, but I made WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block GrantTAX REFORM GOALS
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are refining their tax reform plan and ramping up their marketing efforts. It is a good plan so far, but comments by some GOP leaders suggest that reforms may veer off-course as more details emerge. To keep policymakers focused on true reform, the table below summarizes five tax reform goals and the policy changes needed to achieve AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
SNAP: $15 BILLION ON JUNK FOOD The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aims for recipients to “make healthy food choices within a limited budget.” SNAP is supposed to “permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet.” However, the lofty goals of THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. HOUSING FINANCE AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS The financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009 were serious blows to the U.S. economy, so it is important to step back and understand what caused them. While some people have pointed to financial deregulation and private-sector greed as the sources of the problems, it was actually misguided monetary and housing policies that were the main causes of the crisis. CHICAGO'S HOUSING SUBSIDY DEBACLE I haven’t followed the controversies surrounding Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama. However, her tenure as the CEO of a company that received federal money to run a public housing project deserves further scrutiny. ABOUT DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Without a change of direction in Washington, average working families will be faced with large tax increases and a lower standard of living.This website is designed to help policymakers and the public understand where federal spending goes and how to reform each government FRAUD AND ABUSE IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS The federal government is a vast money transfer machine. It spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year on subsidy programs—from the massive Medicare to hundreds of more obscure programs that most people have never heard of. There are more than 1,800 federal subsidy programs.1With such a huge array of handouts, the federal budget has become victim to large-scale fraud and abuse WHAT WOULD YOU ELIMINATE? The Daily Caller asked me which federal department or agency I would most like to see eliminated. If I actually had the power to eliminate one department or agency, I would choose the Department of Health & Human Services, which houses two key pillars of the federal welfare state (Medicare and Medicaid). However, I decided to choose the Community Development Block Grant PRIVATIZING U.S. AIRPORTS The U.S. economy depends on safe, reliable, and affordable air travel. In turn, the quality of air travel depends on our aviation infrastructure, which includes the air traffic control (ATC) system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and commercial airports owned by state and local governments. Air travel faces major challenges in the years ahead as passenger demand outstrips TANF AND FEDERAL WELFARE The federal government funds a large range of subsidy programs for low-income Americans, from food stamps to Medicaid. This essay examines Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which is a joint federal-state cash assistance program for low-income families with children. When most people think of "welfare," they are thinkingof this program.
THE FAILED HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH The launch of HealthCare.gov in 2013 was a disaster. A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General (IG) describes how the department mishandled the website’s construction. The department failed to follow federal contracting rules, and did not have a cohesive plan for the website. This led to cost overruns and project delays, and HealthCare.gov’s eventually rocky start. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: REMOTE TOWERS Momentum is building for air traffic control (ATC) reform. With health care reform prospects dashed for now, and tax reform facing a difficult path, ATC reform could be an area for legislative progressin coming months.
PRIVATIZING THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a large business enterprise operated by the federal government. It has more than 600,000 employees and more than $70 billion in annual revenues. Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. WAPA: THE FEDERAL SCANDAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF It is hard to keep track of all the waste, corruption, and mismanagement propagated by government agencies in recent years, including the DOD, PTO, VA, and others. In researching my new study on the federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), I ran across a story of federal failure that the national media has overlooked. One of the PMAs, the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), has SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME: A COSTLY AND TROUBLED The goal of the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is to provide assistance to elderly and disabled individuals who have limited financial resources. Supplemental Security Income is a means-tested welfare program funded by general federal revenues. Unlike the related Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, no work history is required to receive SSI Skip to main content DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Your Guide to Cutting Federal SpendingMenu
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