Government Spending & Your Money
GAO: Billions in Pandemic Relief Unaccounted For — Texas’s Share
When the Texas Workforce Commission was racing to pay unemployment claims during the pandemic, the volume was staggering — and...
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Which Federal Offices in Texas Are Cutting the Most Jobs
Texas is home to roughly 156,000 federal civilian employees — about 7.7 percent of the entire federal workforce, according to...
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How a Shutdown Would Squeeze Texas’s Federal Workers
When people picture a government shutdown, they picture Washington. But Texas is home to roughly 156,000 federal civilian employees —...
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When a City Garage Sits Empty: How Texans Can Check the Math
Almost every Texan who lives near a downtown has driven past it: a multistory concrete parking deck, built with public...
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A $600 Million No-Bid Pandemic Contract, and the Procurement Risk It Exposes for Texas
In March 2020, as hospitals across the country ran short of masks and ventilators, one state wired roughly $457 million...
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A $2.4 Billion Sole-Source Defense Contract Lands in Texas
Texas does not build nuclear submarines, but the state is wired into the defense industrial base as deeply as almost...
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10 Federal Expenditures That Cost Texans the Most This Year
This April, millions of Texans sat down at the kitchen table, gathered their W-2s and 1099s, and sent a check...
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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.