Georgia senators find little oversight over how Fani Willis spends taxpayer dollars: ‘Like the Wild West’
Georgia lawmakers on Friday heard testimony from Republican state senators who expressed concerns about how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis spends her $36.6 million budget with little oversight. State Sen. Bill Cowsert, a Republican representing Athens and chairman of the committee, asked Fulton County Commissioner Rob Pitts and Fulton County Chief Financial Officer Sharon […]
NYC’s 5 Boro Bike Tour worried MTA still wants hundreds of thousands of dollars in tolls for using Verrazzano Bridge
It’s a crash waiting to happen. Organizers of the Five Boroughs Bike Tour, in which 32,000 people bike across New York City on Sunday, say the MTA is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for the popular event, which will use the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge next year. He said he was concerned that this might be […]
‘Not A Responsible Steward Of The American People’s Tax Dollars’: Bipartisan Committee Blasts Daszak On Covid Origins
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic grilled EcoHealth Alliance’s President Peter Daszak on Wednesday morning, accusing him of misleading the federal government to obtain grants that funded virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The hearing centered on Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance’s work with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), his undisclosed […]
Millions Of Taxpayers Dollars Intended For Border Wall Are Just Sitting There, Watchdog Reveals
Hundreds of millions of dollars originally intended to fund construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall have been left unspent, a top government watchdog announced. The Government and Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on whether the Biden administration violated the Impoundment and Control Act of 1974 by blocking funds intended for construction of the southern […]
Columbia Shouldn’t Get Taxpayer Dollars
On Wednesday’s broadcast of FOX News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said “this kind of nonsense” similar to what’s happening at Columbia University and Columbia University Other schools said they did not engage in such conduct. You deserve your tax money. Johnson said what is happening in Colombia is “not […]
Blue State Poised To Use Taxpayer Dollars To Pay Journalists’ Salaries
New York state is poised to hand out millions in taxpayer dollars to local media outlets to help pay for journalists’ salaries. The state will dole out $30 million over a three-year period to local media outlets in the form of tax credits, giving publishers the ability to offset up to 50% of the first […]
Migrants Secure Billions of Dollars in Taxpayer Funding for Housing, Food, Health Care Across Sanctuary States
Sanctuary states plan to distribute billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to immigrants in 2024, providing housing, food, health care and more to new immigrants entering the United States under President Joe Biden’s watch. New York state legislators approved The $237 billion budget that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is expected to sign includes about $2.4 billion […]
Texas lawmaker calls to cancel all federal education dollars to avoid Biden’s Title IX ‘war on women’
EXCLUSIVE — Texas Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison called on the state legislature to reject all federal education dollars received by his state so Texans will not be beholden to the Biden administration’s Title IX overhaul. On Friday, the Biden administration finalized the rules governing Title IX, which redefined sex to include claimed gender identities […]
Nonprofit Misused Taxpayer Dollars To Fly Migrants Around US, Dem Rep Alleges
A Texas lawmaker alleged Friday that a local nonprofit is misusing taxpayer funds through its purchase of airline tickets for migrants. Catholic Charities of San Antonio is purchasing airline tickets for asylum-seekers in their care with federal grant money, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar alleged. The allegation emerges as millions of federal taxpayer dollars continue to […]
White House ripped over sanctions waiver that critics say put billions of dollars in Iran’s hands
Biden administration is accused of allowing billions of dollars to flow to Iran under controversial sanctions waivers — Iranian-backed rebels are deadly against U.S. forces This is despite the fact that the Islamic State has just launched a direct attack on Israel, a staunch ally of the United States. The White House last month extended […]