MTA greenlights $250M for consultants to expand Second Avenue subway — which they claim will cost $4.3B per mile to build
MTA spending is like a runaway train. The Metropolitan Transportation Board tickled nearly $250 million on Wednesday for consultants on the already expensive and long-term second-venue extension of the already huge and expensive second-venue subway extension. Phase 2 of the Megaplan is expected to inhale $7.7 billion, or about $4.3 billion per mile, if you […]
Trump’s ‘Crazy’ Tariff ‘Fixation’ Is Going to Cost Us a Lot of Money
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean argued on MSNBC's “Beat” on Wednesday that “crazy” stabilizing President Donald Trump's tariffs would pay Americans a lot of money. Dean said, “We have to be willing to stand up for people, so that's why Trump won. Trump was wrongly convinced because he lied every day that he […]
‘In a rut’: cost of fixing pothole-plagued roads in England and Wales soars to £17bn | Infrastructure
According to the latest industry report, the cost of fully revising local roads in England and Wales' pothole amounts reached a new high of nearly £17 billion. The required record is filled with one pothole every 18 seconds, despite an increase in government funding to target road repairs. Report Nearly a sixth of local roads […]
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Launches Largest Deregulatory Effort in U.S. History to ‘Save Coal, Bring Down Cost of Living’
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin said protecting the environment or growing the economy “is not a binary choice.” “We don't just have to make a choice,” he explained. Join the Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle Saturday Breitbart News Radio programZeldin I went He spoke about his recent historic launch of the […]
Republicans' reckless assault on clean energy will cost them
House Republicans are beginning to fill in the details of their sweeping spending plans that depend on deep cuts in the programs that people rely on – from – Medicare and Medicaid In Food assistance and Clean Energy Investment – Fund everything $4.5 trillion tax cuts for billionaires and large corporations. Their proposal is a […]
Karoline Leavitt: Trump is working 24/7 to bring down the cost of living
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unpacks President Donald Trump’s economic policies for growth on ‘Kudlow. source
JD Vance WRECKS heckler on the REAL cost of illegal immigration
Vice President JD Vance has the trick to speaking common sense. His recent speech at the National League of Cities only highlighted an increasingly unusual talent. “You go around the world and see a very consistent relationship between a huge increase in immigration and a huge increase in housing prices. We have to be honest […]
Illegal Migrants Cost Florida $660 Million in Unpaid Hospital Bills
Florida's healthcare system was borne $660 million in the unpaid hospital bill in 2024, which was incurred by illegal immigrants, according to the state's latest report. Sunshine State's “Hospital Patient Immigration Status Report,” Florida Department of Health Care Administration (AHCA), hospitals say they are “largely uncompensated” for health care that relies on illegal immigration, and […]
FTC asks to delay Amazon Prime case due after Trump cost cuts
The Federal Trade Commission asked a federal court in Seattle on Wednesday to delay a September trial that allegedly Amazon misinterpreted consumers with its major subscription services, citing “a severe lack of resources in both money and personnel.” FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen told District Judge John Chun during the hearing that the agency is facing […]
Boeing among top NASA contractors plagued by billions in cost overruns, delays: report
Their costs are on the upside. Several of NASA's top private contractors are suffering from budget overruns and delays that have forced taxpayers to cough billions of extra coughs. Between 2021 and 2024, the space agency fired around $600 billion in contracts, recovering $7.7 million in civil fines and $9.6 million in criminal compensation, while […]