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Senate in standoff over fiscal transparency and emergency spending. TRUE Accountability Act aims to force agencies to create internal control plans for disasters and crises. Committee demands better accounting on disaster relief funds. Agency wide audits now under heavy scrutiny. Stalling tactics block key budget votes. Transparency becomes big fight against old spending habits. Secret …
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Congress passed 133 broadband programs. Its Big Idea Is a 134th. There are things that a free market will never do, and it’s usually for very good reasons. Running fiber-optic cable down a twelve-mile dirt road costs a fortune, and the handful of households scattered along that road will never pay enough in monthly bills …
Muckraker caught the whole Dominican pipeline red-handed in Lawrence. Free food stamps and charity hauls stuffed into barrels and shipped straight to DR bodegas for cash. They’ve been running this scam wide open while we foot the bill. Vance just got tagged, this better light a fire under real investigators. Enough of our money getting …
Trump team cuts NYC cash flow, subway fixes grind to halt 🇺🇸 Trump called Mamdani a city-destroyer. Now his administration is being accused of withholding federal funding from NYC. New Yorkers didn't vote no investments… They just need their subway fixed.pic.twitter.com/jFH3urXTBB https://t.co/l9qxMcwgE7 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 27, 2026
Liquidity is so thin in US financial system that banks had to borrow ~10bn$ from the FED standing repo facility to buffer the impact of “Tax Day” – amazing pic.twitter.com/S6zQe6x2RG — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) April 15, 2026 2008: US Treasury reports no systemic risk in Subprime Mortgage Lending — Mista Indigo (@Cheekybaua) April 15, 2026 …
Several countries across Asia are confirming they experienced major dollar funding losses last month amidst a cash crunch on surging demand for money to buy oil. Officials in Taiwan, Indonesia, India and in other places have had to scramble to contain the monetary pressure, causing several of them to expend significant reserves just to keep …
OTTAWA — Major Canadian banks and pension funds provided tens of billions of dollars to American contractors for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an investigation by the non-profit Stand.earth has found. The group’s analysis of loan and share data found Canadian financial institutions backed multiple companies that have major contracts with ICE to …
Hardline House Republicans have thrown a Senate-passed DHS funding bill into chaos, leaving millions of passengers facing TSA hell. Speaker Mike Johnson and the powerful House Freedom Caucus of MAGA conservatives rejected the bill passed late last night by the Senate, as it does not include funding for ICE. ‘This gambit that was done last …
After 42 days of infighting on Capitol Hill and growing security lines at airports, the Senate early Friday morning approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, the first — yet significant — step in ending the shutdown at the sprawling agency. Next stop is the House of Representatives, which could …
Jon Stewart blindsides Bernie Sanders with a brutal point about what “endless” government spending actually does to healthcare. STEWART: “When the government promises endless funds to insurance companies… prices RISE FAR BEYOND the rate of inflation.” BERNIE: “Healthcare should be a human right!” Jon Stewart blindsides Bernie Sanders with a brutal point about what “endless” …
Democrats introduced bills to fund part of DHS — 8 times.Republicans passed bills to fund all of DHS — including TSA — through the House twice, with bipartisan support.Senate Democrats blocked full DHS funding 5 times.One side wants to pay TSA workers. The other wants ICE… — AmericanUnfiltered 🇺🇸 (@kbern2018) March 24, 2026 Read the …
OpenAI said it raised $110 billion in its latest funding round. Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said Friday. OpenAI continues to grow at a rapid pace, but the AI giant faces intensifying competition from Anthropic and Google. OpenAI has closed a $110 billion …
Hence the spending and deficits are congress’s albatross, not POTUS.They own them and they’ll continue to be outrageous from administration to administration because no one in congress will ever force spending cuts or even reasonable spending control. — Dave (@RVA_dave) February 20, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just FAILED to advance the DHS funding bill, which means DHS will likely shutdown tomorrow night Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote in favor. These idiots aren’t shutting down ICE, because ICE is FULLY FUNDED for the year. They’re shutting… pic.twitter.com/6RiMataVKz — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 12, 2026
NEW: CA Gov Gavin Newsom's wife makes him step aside so she can scold journalists for not asking the right questions at a Planned Parenthood press conference. The scolding came as Newsom signed a bill approving $90M in "emergency" funds to abortion providers. "We just find it… pic.twitter.com/FcjTC3efX3 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 12, 2026 …
Mag 7 cutting buybacks and borrowing while private credit guys talk about heavy drawdowns and yields keep grinding higher is not “AI strength,” it’s stress showing through the paint. Money isn’t cheap anymore, lenders are pulling back, and somehow people still act like companies can burn billions a quarter forever. Then you look at the …
The UN is on the brink of “imminent financial collapse” due to US funding being slashed, according to Secretary-General Guterres. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/12AhLKICzh — AF Post (@AFpost) January 30, 2026 United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday warned that the world body is on the brink of financial collapse and could run out of cash …
🚨BREAKING: The Senate Funding Deal May NOT PASS TODAY. pic.twitter.com/Bfpq1YsvNz — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) January 30, 2026 U.S. Senate FAILS to advance funding bill to avert partial government shutdown, 45-55. Government funding expires Friday at midnight for certain federal agencies. pic.twitter.com/Zed4o3pwou — CSPAN (@cspan) January 29, 2026 An effort to fast track a government funding …
HELL NO! this deal is trash! But of course, even with Republicans having the majority across the board! The Dems are getting EVERYTHING they want while leaving Republicans arguing with one another. 🤬 — Chris La Point (@1776FFF) January 30, 2026 President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a Senate deal to fund the vast majority …
Burry’s “Repatriation Pending” Is A Warning Label Burry’s post is basically stitching together one idea..Japan is no longer the quiet, suppressed corner of global rates, and that matters because Japan has been one of the world’s biggest exporters of capital for decades. When your home yields are pinned near zero, you have to go abroad. …
🚨 NEW: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealed on Fox News that Republicans have formed an alliance — and if Democrats force a government shutdown over DHS funding, the House will attach the SAVE Act to any rules package.pic.twitter.com/nBP54ucgZS — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) January 26, 2026 The SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 22) …
London, January 24, 2026, 19:48 GMT — Markets have closed A U.S. appeals court has revived a terrorism-funding lawsuit against AstraZeneca and several other companies linked to Iraq. AstraZeneca shares closed higher in New York on Friday and edged up in London; the ruling was announced after U.S. markets closed Investors will be eyeing Monday’s …
BREAKING NEWS — SCHUMER SAYS DEMS WONT ADVANCE FUNDING BILL WITH DHS. pic.twitter.com/xodvPIkhe4 — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 24, 2026
Key Senate Democrats said they would oppose legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident. Bipartisan legislation to fund a broad swath of the government and avert a shutdown at the end of the week appeared to be in grave danger …
When did disagreeing with federal health policy become grounds for punishment? Federal judge orders reinstatement of AAP funding that supports child health programs A federal court has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restore nearly $12 million in AAP grants while the Academy’s case against the government proceeds. The AAP …
California may be choosing politics over $160M in federal funds right when supply chains and trucker shortages are already strained. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has driven the state into the ground, is brazenly defying federal immigration law, with the radical left-globalist, anti-American administration now sabotaging efforts to revoke thousands of commercial truck driver’s licenses …
Goldman: Trump promised oil executives that if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, that he would do right by them. And they gave about 500 million. And this is a massive gift that is in violation of international law and is essentially just co-opting an entire country's… pic.twitter.com/mY3CROvsyX — Acyn (@Acyn) January 4, …
People have to wake up to the radicals hijacking the Left https://t.co/toyne1dttC — The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) January 1, 2026 Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal is to get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here. " Zero question what they want to do. pic.twitter.com/iulg1LjH38 — Western Lensman …
They keep telling people everything is fine while quietly shoving emergency cash into the system like it is a house fire at 3 a.m. When banks start dumping mortgage paper just to get overnight money, that is not confidence, that is panic dressed up as plumbing. The scary part is not the headlines you see, …