Government Spending & Your Money
How Much of $1.2 Trillion in Federal Grants Reached Texas
When a rural hospital in West Texas keeps its doors open, when a stretch of interstate near Houston gets resurfaced,...
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What New CBO Deficit Projections Mean for Texas
A Texas family that pays its bills on time, keeps a little in savings, and never spends more than it...
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Texas Firms Among the 10 Contractors That Out-Earn 38 States
In Fort Worth, thousands of Texans build the F-35 fighter at a Lockheed Martin plant that has anchored the local...
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Federal Hiring Is Up at These Agencies — Including in Texas
The Austin IRS campus is one of the agency's largest, and the South Texas border is one of the busiest...
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How DOGE’s Plan to Cut Three Agencies Would Hit Texas
A Social Security clerk in a Texas field office told reporters this spring that the mood at work had become...
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How Much of the $6.3 Trillion Federal Budget Comes Back to Texas
Every Social Security check mailed to a retiree in Tyler, every paycheck at Fort Bliss, every Medicaid prescription filled at...
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Congress’s Fourth Stopgap This Year: What It Means for Texas
Texas is home to one of the largest concentrations of federal activity in the country — border enforcement along the...
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Is Texas Facing a Budget Shortfall? Where the State Stands
In Michigan, teachers have already received preliminary layoff notices. In Arizona, a proposed legislative budget could strip health coverage from...
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What the $38.9 Trillion National Debt Costs the Average Texan
A number like $38 trillion is too big to feel. It does not fit on a kitchen-table budget, and Washington...
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The Pentagon Failed Its Eighth Straight Audit — Texas Bases Are in the Mix
Texas is one of the most heavily militarized states in the country. Fort Hood near Killeen, one of the largest...
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The Federal Spending Wire tracks how federal, state, and local government spending actually lands on Texas households — property taxes, utility bills, benefits, jobs, and the tax dollars flowing through Washington and Austin alike. Every figure is sourced to the public record, so you can see exactly where your money went.