Bigger Than Madoff
Every year, criminals and cheats pilfer over $100 billion — that’s $40 billion more than Bernie Madoff scammed off his investors — in federal benefits to which they are not ...
Shaving the Iceberg
President Obama will reportedly ask his Cabinet to come up with a combined $100 million in savings over the next 90 days. If the impetus for this announcement is the ...
A Universal Waste of Money
In the waning hours of the 108th Congress, the Senate voted to pass legislation amending the National Telecommunications and Information Organization Act. Contained in the bill was a last-minute provision ...
Blowing It
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article appears in the April 5, 2004, issue of National Review.
To the chagrin of fiscal conservatives, the Bush administration is set to achieve a record of spending ...
Bolten’S Fuzzy Math
Joshua Bolten, the president’s budget chief, took to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal a week ago to defend the Bush administration’s record on the budget amid rising ...
The Mother of All Big Spenders
The Bush administration’s newly released budget projections reveal an anticipated budget ...
Bush’s Bigger, Fatter Welfare State
The Bush administration has weighed in on the Labor, Health and Human Services, ...