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Hegseth calls allied defense 'bad deal for taxpayers' in budget push

(The Center Square) – The Pentagon wants the largest nominal military budget in American history despite failing eight consecutive financial audits and continuing to face longstanding financial management challenges. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed the case Saturday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual Asia-Pacific security summit in Singapore, urging

White House urges state AGs to target, punish Medicaid fraudsters

(The Center Square) – White House officials urged a group of state attorneys general to partner with the Trump administration to combat fraud in welfare programs and hold fraudsters accountable. “One of the things we’ve realized in combating fraud is that the resources of the federal government, while vast, can

Taxpayers fund factories Pentagon says contractors should build

(The Center Square) – The Pentagon is asking Congress to approve a new model that expects defense contractors to fund their own factory expansions, while simultaneously handing out $191 million in taxpayer-funded grants to expand those same factories. Since December 2024, the Pentagon has made nine investments totaling $191 million

Trump budget targets 'valley of death' with new military contractor accountability model

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration's $1.5 trillion military budget request would rewrite how the Pentagon buys weapons – forcing contractors to fund their own factory expansions and penalizing them for missing production targets – in a bid to fix what officials describe as a decades-long failure to

Pentagon seeks $21B for barracks as repair backlog doubles

(The Center Square) – The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $21 billion for military barracks in its fiscal year 2027 budget request, the largest such investment in recent years, but the government's top watchdog says the deferred maintenance backlog has more than doubled since 2020 and important

Congress advances bills targeting $186 billion payment problem

(The Center Square) – Congress moved this week on both sides of the Capitol to address a problem that has persisted for decades after a new report found federal agencies made an estimated $186 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2025, a $24 billion increase from the prior year. The

Vacant but not cheap: Report highlights cost of empty federal buildings

Taxpayers foot the bill for idle government space