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Open The Books is a government watchdog organization that accepts no government funding. Open The Books works to capture and post all disclosed spending at every level of government – federal, state, and local.
- Bad Synergy: When Consultants Help Score $1.5 Billion from Medicaid
- Swamp Update: 2025 Federal Payroll Down $1.9 Billion, Civilian Headcount Down More than 50,000
- Feds Struggled to Claw Back Covid Fraud while Schemers Put Down Payments on Yachts, Lamborghinis
- It's Not Just Health Care: $225M+ in Fraud Found in K-12 Schools
- A Big Win for Military Families on America’s 250th
- Making Your Mortgage: Local Governments Confiscated Nearly $1 Billion in Fees and Fines for Short-Term Rentals
- “Total Boomer Luxury Communism”: Why the Federal Deficit is on Autopilot
- Ghost Rides: Massachusetts Billed Medicaid for 16,907 Trips That Never Happened
- Southern Poverty Law Center Received Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to Spread its Materials in Schools
- Keeping Citizens the Center of Gravity in the Age of AI, Government Surveillance
- Progress Report: Cutting Waste, Ridding Radicalism, and Returning Education to the States
- My Endowment Is Larger Than Yours: Elite Universities Bill Taxpayers While Growing Cash Reserves
- Hidden Fees: Taxpayers on the Hook for Foreign-Linked Health Care Fraud Schemes
- Hidden Fees: Federal Taxpayers on the Hook for Autism Fraud Through Medicaid
- Revenue Road Trip: Taxpayers Fleeing Urban Counties for Smaller-Government Counterparts
