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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.
- 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
- IRS Data Confirms: Government employees depressing private sector wages
- Scoring the Scorekeepers: A Review of CBO’s Legislative Forecasting
- Trump EPA Ends Exorbitant Pay-Outs to Litigious Environmental Nonprofits
- Fiscal Doomsday: $193.6 Trillion in Unfunded Medicare and Social Security Promises
- Open the Books Testifies at Senate Hearing During Sunshine Week
- Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities, not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B “Use-It-or-Lose-It” September
- Iran: We're Ending Taxpayer-Funded Appeasement
- Medicaid Data Dump: Billing Codes Explode Up to 10,000%, LA Mental Health Dept. Highest Biller in the Nation
- Improper Payments Down from Covid-Era Highs But “Confirmed Fraud” Info Missing Amid National Scandal
