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On 30 September 2026 GAO published its accounting of what happened to the US Agency for International Development. Between January 2025 and March 2026, USAID ended about 6,780 of its 7,510 awards, on which $79.1 billion had been obligated. About $52.1 billion …
The Department of Energy runs seventeen national laboratories and some of the fastest computers in the world. Since November 2025 it has …
On 8 October the Energy Department announced twelve Phase II awards worth $159 million under the Genesis Mission, its programme to use AI to …
On 8 October FEMA turned down Illinois’s request for federal help with damage from storms in August, across eight counties. Administrator …
CBO projects the Highway Trust Fund’s highway account will run out of money in fiscal 2028 and its transit account in 2027. Congress hasn’t …
The federal government spent $1.143 trillion on net interest in fiscal 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s monthly review …
On 30 September a three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade in New York heard the first major challenge to the tariffs that …
On 3 November voters in five Bay Area counties decide on a sales tax to keep BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain running. It would add half …
For three months in 2026, the US government collected less in customs duties than it paid back. Net customs receipts were minus $0.04 …
Companies filed 1,688 cases at GAO in fiscal 2025 challenging federal contract awards, according to GAO’s annual report to Congress. That’s …
