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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.
- Recent Impact of Our Investigations
- “Ghost Students” Still Collecting Fraudulent Federal, State Aid
- Safety Net Spending Reality Check
- The Public School Crisis: Higher Payrolls Associated with Worse Student Performance
- Charlie Kirk, September 11, and our Unending Commitment to Transparency
- Letter to Secretary Hegseth: End "Use-It-or-Lose-It" Spending Sprees This Year
- Pentagon's Bloated, Opaque and Undisciplined Budget Undermines our National Security
- BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: HONORING ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI’S LEGACY
- Mamdani's "Affordability" Agenda Could be Costly
- Behind UCLA’s Funding Freeze: Anti-Israel Professors, Radical Grantmaking and Major DEI Investments
- IMPACT: PAUL, ERNST ADVANCE ROYALTY TRANSPARENCY ACT, ACKNOWLEDGE OPEN THE BOOKS
- Note to Congress on DEI in the Sciences: The Call is Coming from Inside the House
- 40 Months? The Eternal FOIA Backlog
- Trump White House Payroll Shrinks 29% Year-Over-Year
- Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards
