Trump Qatar Jet Surveillance Inspection: The Ethics, Spending, and Transparency Questions
What the Qatar jet inspection confirmed, what remains secret, and why upgrade costs and ethics questions persist.
Category Spending
Trump Sentencing and Presidential Immunity Questions: The Ethics, Spending, and Transparency Questions
Separate the New York sentence from immunity, ethics limits, financial disclosures, and legal-spending allegations.
Trump Hormuz Strait Access Restrictions: The Ethics, Spending, and Transparency Questions
Learn which invoices, funding figures, and public reports can show whether Hormuz-related claims hold up.
Trump Federal Abortion Surveillance Proposal: The Ethics, Spending, and Transparency Questions
Learn what S.178 would collect, how Medicaid funding could enforce compliance, and where privacy safeguards remain unclear.
The Iran War Adds to a 25-Year Tab of Middle East Military Spending
The United States has now spent well over $8 trillion on military operations in the Middle East since 2001, and a new conflict with Iran threatens to push...
Emergency Military Spending Bypasses the Normal Budget Process — Again
Yes, it is happening again. The Trump administration's FY2026 defense budget request totals $1.
Pentagon Budget Will Need Emergency Supplemental Funding for Extended Iran Operations
The Pentagon's budget is almost certainly headed for an emergency supplemental funding request if US military operations against Iran extend beyond the...
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Let ACA Subsidies Expire…Premiums Jumped 114% Overnight
Yes, it really happened. When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law on July 4, 2025, it deliberately let enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax...
Fact Check: Trump Claims He Cut Deficit by 27%…Real Number Is 2.3%
President Trump's claim that he cut the federal budget deficit by "a staggering 27% in a single year" is, to put it plainly, not accurate by any standard...
DOGE Vowed $2 Trillion in Savings…Audits Found $1 to $7 Billion…May Have Cost $21.7 Billion
The Department of Government Efficiency promised Americans up to $2 trillion in federal savings.