We already know that Obama’s transition staff is stacked with campaign donors and fundraisers. And despite the vaunted small-donor base deve

The founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, is among scores of Republicans and conservative Democrats who cr

Critical GAO reports released

President Obama introduced his high-powered Economic Recovery Advisory Board this morning. The advisory board will offer “independent, nonpa

The difficulty overcoming the entrenched political tradition of earmarks is just one of many hard realities that will test the Obama Adminis

An intense spending fight over a second engine for the Joint Strike Fighter has partners General Electric and Rolls Royce and rival Pratt &

Imagine paying $556 million for a house and then the seller — after cashing your check — says you have to wait an extra four months before y

The Obama administration is taking a pounding today on the ethics front. This afternoon White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confronted

A Texas company that received $14,675 in economic stimulus money submitted a mandatory progress report to the federal government using just

History overlooks another point from President Eisenhower’s farewell address 50 years ago: the ease with which pressure for government spend