Trump Keeps Campaign Promise to Scale Back Size of EPA
President Donald Trump is keeping a campaign promise to reduce the size of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the agency’s recent employment numbers.
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Feds Continue Classified Experiments on Humans
The U.S. government continues to perform highly secretive experiments on human subjects, according to partial information about these continuing experiments released under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Poll: Only 28% of Americans Are Satisfied With Federal Government
Only 28 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way the United States is governed, according to a poll from Gallup.
Feds Spend $187,704 to Improve Older Women’s Sex Lives
The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $200,000 on a study that seeks to improve older women’s sex lives through mindfulness meditation.
Report: Cutting $2.3 Trillion of Government Waste Would Balance Budget in 3 Years
If Congress were to cut unnecessary and wasteful spending in the federal government, it could balance the budget in three years based on recommendations by Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan organization.
Feds Spend $438,699 Studying If ‘Gender Norms’ Make LGBTQ People Get Drunk
The National Institutes of Health is spending over $400,000 studying whether gender norms of masculinity and femininity lead LGBTQ individuals to drink too much.
Obama EPA Employees Earned Overtime Pay Without Justification
Environmental Protection Agency employees under the Obama administration earned emergency overtime pay without justification, in violation of agency policy.
Feds Spend $300,000 for ‘Dialogues About Water’
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ list of taxpayer-funded projects includes $300,000 for conversations about water, $75,000 for a database of podcasts, and $30,000 for oral histories of lesbian and gay Idahoans.
House Committee Investigating Complaints Gov’t Slowed Nuclear Compensation Efforts
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee, is investigating Labor Department whistleblower complaints that government officials purposefully thwarted ill nuclear workers’ or their widows’ claims for compensation required by law.
IRS Rehired Employees That Falsified Documents, Had Unauthorized Access to Taxpayer Information
The Internal Revenue Service rehired employees who were previously involved in agency misconduct such as falsifying documents or having unauthorized access to sensitive taxpayer information, according to an audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
