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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
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Citizens Against Government Waste Names Mayor Muriel Bowser May 2025 Porker of the Month
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) its May 2025 Porker of the Month for wanting to spend more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds for a new Washington Commanders football stadium. On April 28, 2025, Mayor Bowser and the Commanders announced a deal that would bring the team back to Washington, D.C.'s Robert F. Kennedy stadium. The Commanders would contribute $2.7 billion toward the project, but the District would still be on the hook for $500 million in costs over four years and another $500 million for infrastructure improvements. Mayor Bowser promoted the deal as a major achievement, despite D.C.'s escalating housing prices, failing schools, and metro transit system approaching bankruptcy. Mayor Bowser is promising the team $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, but it is unclear where she will find it after the city's budget was just cut by $1 billion. CAGW President Tom Schatz said, "Mayor Bowser's announcement is yet another sweetheart stadium deal. What she is disguising as 'revitalization' for the area is instead money going straight into the owner's pocket. Mayor Bowser should be reducing spending and directing funds into areas of the city that need help, not gouging taxpayers to help fund a new stadium for a billionaire owner. For being completely callous and fumbling away taxpayer dollars, Mayor Bowser is an easy choice for May Porker of the Month." Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers. View source version on Contacts Alexandra Abrams (202) 467-5310aabrams@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Citizens Against Government Waste Names Mayor Muriel Bowser May 2025 Porker of the Month
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) its May 2025 Porker of the Month for wanting to spend more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds for a new Washington Commanders football stadium. Mayor Bowser is promising the team $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, but it is unclear where she will find it after the city's budget was just cut by $1 billion. Share On April 28, 2025, Mayor Bowser and the Commanders announced a deal that would bring the team back to Washington, D.C.'s Robert F. Kennedy stadium. The Commanders would contribute $2.7 billion toward the project, but the District would still be on the hook for $500 million in costs over four years and another $500 million for infrastructure improvements. Mayor Bowser promoted the deal as a major achievement, despite D.C.'s escalating housing prices, failing schools, and metro transit system approaching bankruptcy. Mayor Bowser is promising the team $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, but it is unclear where she will find it after the city's budget was just cut by $1 billion. CAGW President Tom Schatz said, 'Mayor Bowser's announcement is yet another sweetheart stadium deal. What she is disguising as 'revitalization' for the area is instead money going straight into the owner's pocket. Mayor Bowser should be reducing spending and directing funds into areas of the city that need help, not gouging taxpayers to help fund a new stadium for a billionaire owner. For being completely callous and fumbling away taxpayer dollars, Mayor Bowser is an easy choice for May Porker of the Month.' Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Citizens Against Government Waste Names Sen. Elizabeth Warren April 2025 Porker of the Month
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) its April 2025 Porker of the Month for her efforts to expand the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Direct File system to prepare and collect everyone's taxes. Direct File is duplicative, costly, and dangerous. It not only competes with the IRS's Free File system that gives taxpayers the ability to use private sector programs but also is limited and ineffective since it cannot be used for state income tax returns and taxpayers were unable to claim education tax credits. In December 2024, the IRS estimated that Direct File would cost $24.6 million and be used by at least 2.3 million taxpayers. But a March 20, 2025, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report said it cost $33.4 million and only 104,800 returns out of 423,450 filed were accepted. Direct File was also set up without any statutory authority. CAGW President Tom Schatz said, "Sen. Warren's push to expand the duplicative and wasteful Direct File program shows her complete disregard for protecting taxpayer dollars and information. Only taxpayers know their personal financial situation, but Direct File is allowing the IRS to become the preparer, biller, and enforcer of everyone's taxes. Filing taxes is already difficult and stressful enough for taxpayers. Sen. Warren should be ashamed of her proposal that will waste money and harm taxpayers across America. For her efforts to expand the size and scope of the IRS's power and take away personal control, Sen. Warren was an easy choice for this month's Porker." Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers. View source version on Contacts Alexandra Abrams (202) 467-5310aabrams@
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nancy Mace Spews Slurs in Unhinged Anti-Trans Rant
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace wasted no time getting back to her attention-seeking antics as she erupted into an anti-trans rant mere days into the 119th Congress. During a Wednesday hearing on 'government efficiency and waste,' Mace grilled Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds about her government's operations but directed most of her venom at USAID-funded programs abroad. 'USAID has become rotten to its core, sacrificing the prudent use of tax payer dollars at the altar of advancing, radical, sinister, social political agendas abroad,' started Mace. 'From discriminatory DEI initiatives to extreme gender ideology to marginalize real bonafide biological women for decades.' Mace alleged that USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has 'plundered the American treasury.' She added, 'Funding some of the dumbest, I mean stupidest... just dumbest initiatives imaginative. All supported by the left.' Listing off $2 million in USAID funding for gender-affirming care in Guatemala, Mace asked, 'Does this advance the interest of American citizens? Paying for trannies in Guatemala to the tune of $2 million dollars? Yes or no?' 'No,' answered Reynolds. Joining Reynolds as witnesses was Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, and William Resh, a South Carolina Public policy and management associate professor. Schatz also responded 'no' while Resh said he had no position. Taking note of Mace's use of the anti-trans slur, Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly urged Mace to show a sense of decorum. 'The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the trans community,' Connolly began, but Mace immediately fired back in an outburst. 'Tranny, tranny, tranny! I don't really care. You want penises in women's bathrooms, and I'm not gonna have it. No, thank you. It's disgusting,' said Mace, turning to look at Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for support. The room erupted in murmurs as Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, who is oversight chairman, called for a restoration of order. Connolly began again, 'To me, a slur is a slur, and here in the committee, a level of decorum requires us to try consciously to avoid slurs.' Connolly added, 'You just heard the gentlelady actually actively, robustly repeat it; and I would just ask the chairman that she be counseled that we engaged. We can debate and policy discussion without offending human beings who are fellow citizens. And so, I would ask as a parliamentary inquiry whether the use of that phrase is not, in fact, a violation of the decorum rules.' Comer said that he would investigate the matter further.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Watch live: House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on government efficiency
The House Oversight and Reform Committee will hear testimony Wednesday morning from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) about the Hawkeye State's efforts to promote government efficiency. Reynolds announced last month that Iowa would create its own Department of Government Efficiency, in an effort to slash wasteful spending modeled after President Trump's latest federal agency helmed by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Thomas A. Schatz, the president of Citizens Against Government Waste, will also be a witness. The 'Rightsizing Government' hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EST. Watch the live video above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
