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DOGE comes for the consultants…
Today is the deadline for agencies to justify their work with 10 large consulting companies to contract-slashers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and the industry infamous for charging exorbitant fees for PowerPoints is quaking.
Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski said in an interview that the firm actually operates as a tech company, not a consultancy.
Columbia University Appears To Change Its Tune After Trump Slashes $400 Million In Federal Grants
‘these unacceptable behaviors on our campus’
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The Legal Loophole That Costs Medicaid Billions
How states inflate the cost of Medicaid to get more money from the federal treasury.
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California Bill Would Limit Residents’ Ability to Use Deadly Force to Defend Their Property
The legislation states homicide is not justifiable when using ‘more force than was reasonably necessary.’
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Los Angeles Lost Track of Billions in Homelessness Funding, Audit Finds
An audit commissioned by a federal judge found that a Los Angeles agency suffered incomplete documentation and insufficient financial accountability.
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Billion-Dollar Boondoggle: Taxpayer Cash Funds Far-Left Arizona Projects
While the Trump administration and DOGE is exposing wasteful spending from USAID, attention is shifting to wasteful and partisan spending by other federal agencies. Several agencies gave large grants to recipients in Arizona for partisan progressive purposes. Some of these were authorized by Congressional bills, however, so will be difficult for Trump’s executive branch to cut.
The Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation awarded $35 million in 2023 to the University of Arizona for expanding markets for climate-smart natural rubber from guayule. The subsidies have come under attack from Republicans in Congress. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01) objected to the grant program last year, “[N]o one natural resource concern should be prioritized over others, considering all the benefits and good work these programs presently support.” Producing rubber alone is not economically viable, and “other useful compounds drawn from guayule were either less or showed uneven results,” the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service found.
Judge Declines to Block Policy That Lets Agents Arrest Illegal Immigrants at Schools
Denver Public Schools sued over the policy which it said was in contravention of federal law.
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Federal Dependency is a Ticking Time Bomb for State Budgets
https://bonginoreport.com/economy/federal-dependency-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-for-state-budgets
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