CRC's Parker Thayer joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle on The Federalist Radio Hour to dive into the convoluted world of taxpayer-funded pet projects and analyze the effect President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will have on cutting back spending.

Over the past four years USAID had given more than $4.2 billion in grants to “miscellaneous foreign awardees” which is USAID shorthand for “we don’t want to say who got the money.” Of these, the purpose is also redacted for nearly half a billion dollars in grants. In some instances, the redactions are probably legitimate efforts to protect the recipients being targeted by terrorist or foreign adversaries. But some grants…

Big Philanthropy and the so-called “good government” groups that it funds have a “solution” (I’m making air-quotes) to partisan gerrymandering: The “independent redistricting commission.” With funding from left-of-center groups like…

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In the November/December 2024 issue of Capital Research magazine, the Biden administration and left-wing interest groups meddle in the election, trans activists work to crush women’s sports, 150 pro-terrorism groups…