Federal Funding
Federal Spending Is Even Worse Than Advertised
Uncle Sam ran the biggest budget deficit in seven years in fiscal 2019, according to the Treasury Department. The $984 billion deficit amounts to 4.7 percent of GDP. Thatโs the highest percentage since 2012. It was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit...
A New “Surge” Expands Unconstitutional Federal Involvement in Local Police
WASHINGTON (Nov. 2, 2019) – Invoking military language used during the Iraq war, President Trump announced a national police “surge” to crack down on violent crime. Trump announced the crime-fighting initiative during the International Association of...
Smoking Gun: Feds Partner with Local Police to Facilitate Warrantless Surveillance
Information uncovered by activists in Berkeley, California, revealed a web of cooperation between state, local and federal authorities as they secretly spied on a political rally. This smoking gun conclusively proves that federal agencies actively partner with local...
How Federal Programs Helped Rich White People and Corporations Steal Land from Poor Black Farmers
A lot of people believe that the federal government is a friend to liberty because it protected African-Americans against discrimination in the 1960s. But research shows that this was the exception to the rule, at best. Centralized authority, including the federal...