Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment ...
Musk pushes out top Treasury official over effort to access US government payment system: report
Though the legality of Musk’s efforts to access the systems is unclear, President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order authorizing the DOGE scheme instructed federal agencies to give the X owner’s ...
WA’s sunny days spell trouble for snowpack
One water manager described the situation — below-normal snowpack coupled with a statewide drought emergency — as "ominous." ...
City Journal10d
How Washington Can Finally Get Back to Fiscal Sanity
It’s time to start thinking about the constitutional ideals that can put the nation’s finances on sound footing.
Trump’s budget pick, Russ Vought, is starting to upend Washington
Russell Vought has signaled he hopes to slash spending — and push the limits of presidential power to achieve Trump’s agenda.
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US recovers $31 million in Social Security payments to dead people
Ever since the U.S. Social Security Administration opened its books to the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service ... payments to dead people WASHINGTON -- Ever since the U.S ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle16d
US recovers $31 million in Social Security payments to dead people
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since the U.S. Social Security Administration opened its books to the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service, it has been able to stop and recover more than ...
Orange County Register10d
Fiscal responsibility: The only path leading all the way out of our inflation quagmire
As such, fiscal policy must be part of the solution ... When COVID-19 and the overreaction of lockdowns arrived, Washington dramatically increased spending through stimulus checks, enhanced ...