Waste & Watchdogs
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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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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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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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.