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If current trends persist, the Biden-Harris administration will have made over $1...
Benjamin the Chatbot, THE MOST IMPORTANT innovation in the history of U.S. public...
Governor Abbott and state legislators have fought for years over passing a school...
Officials at the Maine Public Employees Retirement System are responsible for helping...
Mayor Brandon Scott announced last December that cars provided to Baltimore city...
The Clark County Shooting Complex has been losing money since it opened in 2010,...
If you’re renewing or making changes to your Tennessee driver license you’ll notice...
During the winter 2023 ice storm in Austin, Texas, Austin Energy couldn’t keep the...
Both sides negotiating a legal settlement had ties to the Walz administration, sidestepping...
CHICAGO — Following the passing of OpenTheBooks Founder & CEO Adam Andrzejewski,...
Exposing the Secret $2 Billion Big Pharma Kickback Complex at the National Institutes...
OpenTheBooks.com caps a years-long NIH investigation with new findings, progress...
Universities across the country have received $54 billion from foreign governments...
Home owners across the state have seen increases to their property tax bill this...
Universities across the country have received tens of billions of dollars from foreign...
Chinese, Russian, and other foreign biotech companies have paid billions of dollars...
As we checked for pay-to-play, Chauvin’s prosecutor, Carter-Mondale kin, and trans...
Travis County’s median property taxes are among the highest in the entire country.
The State of Maine has until the end of this year to plan out how it will spend its...
After a few rocky years dealing with its trash and recycling, Metro Nashville is...
Revenue from recreational marijuana sales across the state continue to go down, leading...
Tim Walz is coming under scrutiny due to contributions his campaign received while...
We’re recommitting to our transparency mission with renewed purpose, honoring the...
Congress gave $350 billion to states and local governments to combat the Covid-19...
Law enforcement agencies in the Las Vegas area may be busy writing traffic tickets,...
We've tried to open the books, but there's still a lack of transparency in Austin,...
A deep dive into our oversight report, Duplication Nation, which showcases the $670...
A rule requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish annual reports...
How Congress Saved Taxpayers $670 billion with 1,341 Cuts to Programs Since 2011
Adam Andrzejewski joins Tomi Lahren to discuss our findings on the 92% staff turnover...
Inside the recent controversy over carbon emissions on the new Gorham Connector highway....
You may have grabbed a cold beer or chilled cocktail during this summer’s excessive...
Colleges and universities are taking advantages of federal loan guarantees; meanwhile,...
Eduardo Ramos was arrested for insurance fraud. We looked into his crime, his tax...
Democrats 'save democracy' by hiding their candidate from public view.
Austin Energy's former general manager earned $445k after retirement announcement....
We looked into the funds spent on aid to Maine after the sever winter storms in December...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency declared seven disasters for storms in Tennessee...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation mandating a “tax...
OpenTheBooks, citing payroll records, says as of March 31, 2024, only four of the...
According to government watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.com, Vice President Kamala...
A diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training in the Pentagon's education wing...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ office has had high levels of staff turnover throughout...
We looked into Austin's investments, as the city manager proposed nearly $5.9 billion...
An in depth look at revenues generated from Maine's marijuana industry: $40M since...
Use of force incidents by Metro Nashville police have increased in the last two years,...
Behind the recent public self-branding of Harris as a kindly, jovial 'Momala', she...
A strong politician in some ways, but also deeply flawed. Now, she's ours.
Chaos reigns on the vice president’s staff. And Harris tried to hide it by claiming...
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s office has had a turnover rate higher than 90% over...
California schools are about to be overrun with woodland animals, pets, vampires,...
The office of Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a turnover rate higher than...
University employees are typically among the highest paid state workers. We looked...
We find out just how much money Maine brings in from gambling taxes.
Inside our breaking oversight report "Schools for Radicals: The Secret Push to Institute...
How taxpayers are impacted by the delays and legal issues at Austin's light rail.
An expensive behind-the-scenes mistake has driven up the cost of Baltimore's rental...
Nashville’s pension system paid retired public employees $205 million last year,...
Scientists and stakeholders around the country are commending U.S. Senator Rand Paul...
The Supreme Court recently sided with states like Nevada that have laws banning people...
DoDEA dismantled its DEI department, dispersing workers to 'less public roles.'
The Secret Push to Institute Radical DEI Curriculums within the Pentagon's K-12 Public...
We took a deep dive into Biden's BLOATED White House payroll, and more.
Maine has recently received millions in federal grants for boating harbors. We explained...
While Metro Nashville has cleared some homeless encampments, it’s spending millions...
WASHINGTON (TND) — President Joe Biden has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to...
We looked into Texas' alcohol tax: $2B collected in 2023!
We looked into how Maryland profits off syntaxes from alcohol and tobacco.
We opened the books on the strong financial ties between Qatar-based entities and...
President Biden's 2024 White House payroll is the largest in modern history, surpassing...
However, since 2021, only 127 of President Joe Biden’s initial 560 White House employees...
We uncovered records showing all payments going toward Dallas' former city manager,...
Before you pop open a cold beer at a Fourth of July barbecue next week, here’s something...
Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson spent $2...
It is a sign of the times as lawmakers call out government waste and this time it's...
We opened the books on the renovations of Baltimore's city parks and swimming pools,...
President Biden is being accused of using spending U.S. taxpayer dollars to campaign...
2021-2024
Inflation has hit every American in every city but now a new problem is emerging...
We looked into Austin's 2023 payroll, and found how much the city spent on employee...
Inside the $4.2 billion budget plan for 2025, including some surprising pay raises...
Potholes are an irritation to every driver who has hit one but just how much is Tennessee...
A new report from the state looks at the pandemic’s impact on Nevada, including the...
A Motel 6 used as an emergency shelter in Portland, Maine was shut down due to a...
At the May 23, 2024, meeting of the UNC Board of Regents, the governors of the University...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), ranking member, cites our statement!
As the Metro Nashville police payroll has gone up over recent years, so has the amount...
An audit released by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General...
The deal for the new A’s baseball stadium coming to Las Vegas keeps getting worse...
We looked into the contract extension and salary of Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore...
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After following the money on Dr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health, we...
NIH covered up longtime payment scheme. We sued twice in federal court. We are winning....
During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Millions in royalty payments flowed into the National Institutes...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrezjewski had a front row seat at Dr. Anthony Fauci's...
On Spectrum News, Chad Adams, conservative commentator, takes a stance against the...
Coverage on Dr. Fauci being questioned over pharmaceutical royalties.
Federal bureaucrats are purposefully stonewalling the American people’s right to...
Federal agencies under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership received hundreds of millions...
Anthony Fauci heads to Capitol Hill Monday to testify before the House Select Subcommittee...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is expected to publicly testify in front of the US House Select...
We discussed our top OpenTheBooks stories in 2024 so far, from foreign funding of...
Clark County School District employees spent $53 million through almost 205,000 transactions...
Northwestern University was in the hot seat this week as President Michael Schill...
Our OpenTheBooks research on the cost of DEI at UNC was cited on WRAL News. That...
"Recapture" is meant to ensure school districts have enough resources to support...
Inside Covid's aftermath, and how Americans are impacted to this day. We broke down...
A new report reveals a diversity apparatus of shocking size.
It’s a massive complex dedicated to the neo-Marxist agenda.
Plus, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others gave $1 billion to the university in foreign...
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We believe it's the most important public policy innovation in U.S. history. It's...
Foreign Gifts to U.S. Higher Education
Troubling gifts and grants from the ‘State of Palestine’ funded anti-Israel curriculums,...
We followed the money on campus protests happening at University of Texas at Austin.
Transparency is still foggy in Baltimore, Maryland!
The fleet of take-home vehicles that Metro Nashville employees drive has grown, including...
Paid time off for Clark County employees is so generous that last year, the county...
Some of the nation’s top universities have received about $10 million from the “State...
Several elite universities received donations from a foundation in the “State of...
Slowly but surely, the diversity, equity and inclusion movement is dying.
Harvard University and Brown University collected more than $2 million combined from...
Troubling grants and contracts classified in the federal database funded anti-Israel...
Universities witnessing anti-Israel protests are the same ones bringing in billions...
Our OpenTheBooks auditors uncovered the billions of dollars in donations flowing...
Austin's new city manager will soon take office! We reviewed his contract with the...
The level of chaos from protests at universities across the country has not been...
Metro Nashville Public Schools paid time off is so generous that hundreds of people...
We recently reviewed all pensions paid out to city of Portland employees in 2023....
We opened the books on civil unrest and foreign gifts to U.S. universities.
Just before law enforcement moved to dismantle an anti-Israel encampment Thursday...
Taxpayers are funding Ivy League schools such as Columbia University, which is currently...
More than $7B in taxpayer money has been given to schools that have fostered anti-Israel...
Americans are watching in horror as thousands of real students led like sheep by...
Austin police recently announced that they will start to encrypt police radios. In...
More than half of Baltimore city school students are chronically absent! We opened...
We recently filed an appeal in court to obtain the Portland Public Schools 2023 payroll...
As Nashville prepares for a massive mixed-use development on the East Bank, we’re...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes through the end of the semester because...
Clark County’s average employees are paid a modest wage, but the people at the top...
Government employees should disclose who is paying them royalties.
Outraged lawmakers are demanding answers about American tax dollars going to firms...
The Pentagon’s watchdog agency will audit more than $50 million in grants the US...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder discusses our deep-dive investigation...
University of Texas at Austin has been firing dozens of employees to comply with...
We looked into the generous salaries of Baltimore's public employees.
Inside Portland's 2023 payroll for Maine's public employees' retirement system.
Metro Nashville officials expect there will be no increased revenue next budget year...
In 2018 and 2019, 20% and 19% of students in Nevada were chronically absent, through...
Top-line estimates of COVID-19 aid fraud are now at $1 trillion, according to LexisNexis...
Today, the US national debt is $34.7 TRILLION and counting. The government keeps...
Everyday, we highlight one quick, blood-boiling example of taxpayer abuse at the...
The U.S. national debt is soon expected to pass $35 trillion yet both Democrats and...
We recently reviewed Austin's water checkbook payments from 2023, and took a peek...
Over the years, the Baltimore Light Rail project has been on and off, turning into...
Tennessee is getting more than three times as much in federal earmarks as it received...
Nevada is getting $194 million in federal earmarks for 108 projects throughout the...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday announced new findings in his research on COVID-19...
House Republicans opened the earmark door with a secret caucus vote three years ago....
Austin, Texas will be one of the most popular visiting spots in the country this...
Baltimore City Board of Estimates terminated a $500,000 grant to the Pride Center...
Metro Nashville staffed traveled to Atlanta, Kansas City, DC, Memphis, Phoenix, and...
The "fiscal conservative" earmarks dwarfed the $224 million from The Squad.
Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus requested nearly $1 billion in pork-barrel...
If anything should finally force a public up-or-down vote on earmarks, it’s the haul...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Congress is in the middle of passing spending bills to fund the...
In 2022, Metro Nashville's schools spent $1.8 million on what it deems “information...
The city of Austin gets a D grade in fiscal health, from Truth in Accounting.
We recently obtained Clark County School District's spending records. OpenTheBooks'...
Opening the books on hundreds of other Maryland bridges that are structurally deficient...
A new tool utilizing a chatbot by OpenTheBooks allows anyone to track how their government...
OpenTheBooks found that Congress’ far-left “Squad” has secured $224 million in earmark...
We looked into the city of Austin's paid time off accruals. In their first year of...
Baltimore's financial health gets a D, ranking 67 out of 75. Every taxpayer owes...
University spokesperson Brian Coy misled national media about how much DEI was costing...
The revelation this month that the University of Virginia has been spending $20 million...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, and Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner...
Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into what we call 'The...
Scientists and Doctors who worked for the federal government received hundreds of...
Although it's Sunshine week, Portland, Maine's public schools have not been transparent....
Nashville spent almost $10 million since 2020 paying thousands of employees who weren’t...
Clark County schools are spending less per student than other districts of similar...
A loophole in the state employee pension system law allows state lawmakers to increase...
A new report from Truth in Accounting ranks the top 75 cities in America on their...
EXCLUSIVE — Top DEI staffers at the University of Virginia appeared to downplay outside...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Stakeholders and organizations are applauding U.S. Senator Rand...
The University of Florida recently announced it would end the diversity, equity,...
Sunshine Week is all about transparency in government.
Optional language in Rhode Island DEI bill is a ruse, given state's use of guidance...
“The University of Virginia (UVA) has at least 235 employees under its ‘diversity,...
Vote-buying schemes have defined the Democrat party ever since FDR’s “chicken in...
We broke down the earmarks dictated by US representatives that are coming to Maryland....
DEI is a money making-machine. We found that UVA spends $20 million a year on just...
Adam Andrezejewski, CEO of ‘OpenTheBooks,‘ dissects what's in the multi-billion dollar...
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Controversial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs are coming under intense...
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The University of Virginia’s sprawling efforts to expand the left-wing diversity,...
It takes tuition payments from nearly 1,000 undergraduates just to pay their base...
Known as ‘The Squad,’ a group of progressive- democratic socialists in Congress have...
UVA FOIA production.
It’s the report that no one in Washington D.C. wants to talk about.
Medicare and Social Security are facing a substantial underfunding crisis, amounting...
Medicare and Social Security are in big trouble as it is now underfunded by a staggering...
In its most recent Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Nashville had $5.7 billion...
Next week, the Baltimore City of Estimates will vote on two new board positions.
New sales tax proposal in which 5,300 public charities would be exempt from paying...
The federal government spent $8.5 million of your money on producing dozens of podcasts...
It’s big business. And funding episodes on erotic ecologies, queer farming, trans...
Breaking down the federal dollars used for flood relief in Portland, Maine.
These $3.4 billion vendor payments went to 3rd party vendors.
Clark County paid vendors $2.2 billion last year. We broke down those numbers.
The production of podcasts has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $8.5 million since early...
We dug into the 2023 payroll for the largest school district in Central Texas, Austin...
The Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation missed a big deadline, failing...
With the recent debut of Comptroller Bill Henry’s Baltimore City Open Checkbook website,...
Since 2017, $1.3 billion in taxpayer dollars flowed to the adversarial nations of...
City Comptroller Bill Henry has just unraveled a transparency website called Baltimore...
The Maine Turnpike Authority has proposed a new $240M tollway that would reduce traffic...
There has been a spike in tree trimming costs in Austin, Texas. Investigative journalist...
Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service members.
Department of Defense’s first-ever diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) education...
DODEA can’t seem to shake the agency’s culture of secrecy and deception, according...
DoDEA has deeply betrayed the trust of the American people, and more importantly,...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski discusses Bozeman (MO) city manager's disparaging...
We discussed the proposed $90 million to augment MaineCare, which is Maine's medicaid...
Among the many burdens that skyrocketing illegal immigration forces upon American...
Metro Nashville awards millions of dollars to nonprofits that provide community services....
Twenty-three non-compliant charities are still receiving public funding despite not...
WASHINGTON (CITC) — The Pentagon is continuing to covertly include elements of diversity,...
City records reveal that millions of tax dollars are being funneled to Baltimore...
GOP Senators blocked a hidden migration bailout for the Democrats’ sanctuary cities...
The city manager of Boseman, Montana is under fire for comments he made about Austin,...
The Biden Administration gave $1 billion in Palestinian aid to the United Nations...
Breaking down the cost of Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell's inauguration, compared...
We looked into Austin's credit card usage. The city used taxpayer dollars to pay...
Last week, Baltimore's comptroller Bill Henry released the city checkbook online....
Employees from Clark County, mostly police, have been using take-home vehicles OFF...
Biden spent $20 billion in refugee assistance at the southern border, just in the...
Biden Administration re-started Palestinian aid by pumping $1.2 billion through the...
OpenTheBooks.com report details a billion tax dollars sent to UN agency whose employees...
We revealed and broke down the cost of the illegal immigration crisis at the southern...
PHOENIX (TND) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., has reportedly spent more than $200,000...
Sen. Joni Ernst & Rep. Mike Gallagher are demanding the Defense Department’s inspector...
The cost of illegal immigration at the Southern Border has hit a record of at least...
Right now, many voters say the migrant crisis is among the most important issue in...
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst drafted and championed the China Audit, quantifying taxpayer...
A recent investigation found some prominent Maryland charities collecting thousands...
While Tennessee lawmakers are considering whether to reject federal aid toward education,...
Coverage of the debts & expenses of Austin, TX.
It took us 8 months to force open the books in Baltimore, and now, the city has fully...
An all-time high in illegal entrants at the border creates all-time surge in taxpayer...
Nashville human trafficking ring recently busted, website/hotline to report.
Coordinate sick-outs and comparison of teacher pay raises.
Houston-DFW rail line had cost estimates increase from $10B to $30B; a partnership...
A private Texas high-speed rail venture is resurrected from the dead by the feds.
City-funded nonprofits in Baltimore received taxpayer dollars! Watch as we break...
We broke down the costs that will go into the proposed Office of New Americans, which...
WASHINGTON (TND) — New regulations by the Biden administration are on track to cost...
Recently, we were forced to open Baltimore's checkbook after an 8-month battle. But...
We quantified the $275M spent by Metro Nashville for its infrastructure projects....
Republicans will hold a primary in Nevada next month. This event will cost $5 MILLION....
Biden spent six times more on "sue and settle" fees than Trump in their first years.
We covered the process and the challenges that have come with the search for a new...
We recapped our top five investigations of 2023 on NewsmaxTV.
Property taxes in Davidson County are the third highest among Tennessee's 95 counties,...
We opened the books on property taxes in Clark County, which happen to be the third...
The city of Austin is one step closer to permanently filling the city manager position....
Our federal government spent $1 billion on lavish, luxury furniture during the pandemic...
We recapped some of our biggest 2023 stories, from the militarization of the IRS,...
An influential liberal dark money group propping up anti-Israel activism across the...
Texas ranks #6 out of 50 states in having the highest property taxes in the country!...
VICTORY: After an 8-month battle, OpenTheBooks forced open the Baltimore city checkbook!...
OpenTheBooks was cited in Sen. Rand Paul's 2023 waste report!
As the public seeks footage from police body-worm cameras, the Metro Nashville Police...
The state agency responsible for mental health treatment for criminal defendants...
In an era marked by rising tuition costs and the pursuit of higher education as a...
A federal jury convicted a former Atlanta assistant city attorney Wednesday for defrauding...
There's no public purpose for this six-figure grant being underwritten by the American...
Colleges and universities need to step up and ensure the safety of their students...
The situation should make taxpayers wonder.
One city dealing with the fallout of all this is Baltimore, Maryland, where nearly...
We took a look inside Baltimore City's checkbook to see how taxpayer dollars have...
In 2022 and 2023, case reports of human waste in the public way spiked to all-time...
Metro Nashville has spent $5 million on bike lanes, which is more than any other...
Clark County states there's not enough housing, and evictions only require a 7-day...
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) cited our findings on Ivy League schools, their massive endowments,...
The extent of political influence money can buy in Washington is coming under question...
The U.S. tax code and federal contracts swell the coffers of wealthy Ivy League universities...
A Baltimore spending board granted $1 million for a city-owned hotel that has already...
We found that there are public affairs officers at Metro Nashville's Police Department...
Clark County School District is still working to resolve its cybersecurity issues,...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held up a map of human waste in San Francisco at the...
Texas Christian University just announced a tuition hike. TCU will be more expensive...
During those long months of quarantine from COVID-19, it wasn’t just businesses that...
Hundreds of millions in Hollywood handouts facing scrutiny as critics question the...
2008-2023 San Francisco Human Waste Reporting
Pushed harmful teen sex and suicide messaging – even on episodes aired during the...
Our Covid Aid Waste Compendium oversight report quantifies the waste, fraud, and...
Quantifying waste, fraud, and misallocation of taxpayer resources in response to...
Baltimore's Safe Streets program has not been transparent. They've redacted names...
Columbia and Stanford have pulled in billions in federal grants and contracts in...
Voters are expressing concern about the lack of current border control under President...
Elite ivy league colleges get most of their funding from taxpayers while in many...
Sixty-five billion dollars, that's how much our country's wealthiest universities...
We investigated the city of Austin's Dangerous Dogs database. The data is old, and...
Stanford, Northwestern and the Ivy League universities have collected a combined...
Quantifying U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks, And Federal Payments Into The Ivy...
Some private universities receive more from the government than they net in tuition...
The lawmakers want to know more about the agency's settlements with environmental...
This morning, we provided an update on several stories we've been opening the books...
We looked into the new $2 million in funding for a new inmate disciplinary oversight...
As budget battles heat up on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are working to disarm the IRS.
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) proposes Amendment No. 15, which would strike all funding...
Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) cites our work and proposes increased funding for the...
Elite universities have seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. Because of this,...
Israel received $6.6 billion for defense. Another 17 countries split $14 billion...
In this video Rep. Gary Palmer cites our findings on the Environmental Protection...
Amtrak has finally released their payroll information. We found out who makes the...
We have been fighting to get Baltimore's city checkbook. Now, Baltimore has FINALLY...
Revenue from Metro Nashville's parking spots has increased after a 2-year slump....
We found that Israel and Jordan receive the most support in U.S. taxpayer-funded...
Harvard and UPenn pulled in billions in federal funds between 2018 and 2022.
Is U.S.-Palestinian aid going to those in need, or straight to Hamas? OpenTheBooks...
OpenTheBooks.com is applauding the Senate for approving two amendments Tuesday as...
Senate Approves Ernst Amendment to Take Attendance at Government Agencies and Examine...
Since 1984, the U.S. listed Iran as a "state sponsor of terror." So, why was Biden...
Middle school teacher Brett Williams was given $150,000 settlement after being placed...
OpenTheBooks is considering a lawsuit against the city of Baltimore due to the lack...
Millions of American taxpayer dollars are going to high speed internet. Congress...
GOOD NEWS: Tennessee has been ranked among the top U.S. states for good budgeting...
Revenue from recreational marijuana sales across Nevada are dropping. This will lead...
We delved into the driverless car debate in Austin, such as who gets ticketed when...
Billions of your taxpayer dollars are sent to Iran, the world's leading state sponsor...
Our OpenTheBooks auditors found that up to $1 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer dollars may...
We revealed 100 pages of evidence that UNRWA schools taught hate toward Jewish people,...
President Biden sent $1 BILLION in U.S.-Palestinian aid (YOUR taxpayer dollars)....
U.S. Mideast peace negotiators felt that freezing aid to Palestinians was disrespectful....
Restoring earmarks in today's Congress would be like opening a bar tab for a bunch...
The Texas Senate passed a priority bill that will allocate taxpayer money toward...
U.S.-Palestinian over the last seven decades has cost taxpayers around $8 billion...
Tennessee state lawmakers are considering rejecting about $1.9 billion in federal...
We opened the books on the Baltimore City Safe Streets program spending money on...
One America News' John Hines had a conversation with OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam...
While Congress is busy playing musical chairs with the House speaker’s position,...
The wealthiest colleges and universities took Covid aid, with some of them being...
In our investigation, we uncovered Amtrak's payroll information. Initially, Amtrak...
Metro Nashville Public Schools have had 14 violent threats this school year and are...
During the pandemic years the federal government spent billions of dollars on office...
Amtrak riders are treated to scheduling delays, breakdowns, and despite ticket prices,...
Bringing back earmarks is the equivalent of providing an open bar for alcoholics...
The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022,...
Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., is hiding the salaries...
The federal government dropped $3.3 billion on new office furniture as the vast majority...
Federal budgeters kept up with pre-pandemic spending to deck out office spaces during...
While office space was shuttered and employees were paid to work from home, federal...
Emily Compagno, Co-Host of Fox News' Outnumbered, joined the Gutfeld! show and cited...
Dozens of universities in Tennessee collected $855 million worth of federal. covid...
We opened the books on Austin's city checkbook when the city lost power due to an...
Amtrak released a portion of its payroll information, marking the first instance...
BALTIMORE: Why did the top 25 wealthiest colleges & universities received $4 BILLION...
We opened the books on Baltimore Community College President Debra L. McCurdy's massive...
In 2022, their president made $593,000. Debra L. McCurdy, Ph.D. was the second most...
We investigated the top earmarks spenders in the senate, going into 2024.
Metro Nashville's license plate reader program will soon be a permanent fixture....
It has been 1 week since Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted from impeachment...
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions in taxpayer...
A video from the nonprofit Gender Spectrum trains K–12 schools to help students explore...
Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, Christine...
“You’re on a gender journey” – California K-12 schools teach students that genders...
We discovered that the President of the Baltimore City Community College received...
The federal government is spending $15.4 billion to help conserve water in the Colorado...
Metro Nashville employees drive and take home 1000+ company vehicles. We broke down...
More than three years after the start of the pandemic new reports continue finding...
Austin Energy has hiked energy rates. This is the third increase in the last year!...
We broke down Texas' huge budget and where it's going. It's the most money that's...
Brightline West is waiting for $3.75 billion in federal funding for a high speed...
The Department of Energy invested $1.2 billion to vacuum greenhouse gases from the...
Sen. Joni Erst (R-IA) cites OpenTheBooks findings in her "Back to Work" floor speech.
A program in California is raising red flags dealing with gender school training...
We sorted through the 173-page after-action report into the Brooklyn mass shooting....
Maine has the 2nd oldest school choice law in the US. Is this old system working...
20% of Tennessee students were considered chronically absent when students returned...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, broke down the billions of dollars going...
One-third of students in Nevada schools were considered "chronically absent." That's...
Should taxpayers pick up the cost of maintaining mostly empty buildings in Washington?
In the city of Austin, many celebrities have been receiving government aid for their...
Nashville is struggling to house its homeless population.
American universities and colleges have received billions of dollars from foreign...
Since 1980, the national debt of USA skyrocketed from less than $1 trillion to nearly...
Lawmakers also highlighted that 'the OpenTheBooks report found that at least 59 payments...
Hawaiian Residents are questioning the $500M in earmarks congressional Hawaiian lawmakers...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski recaps our biggest findings when it comes...
The taxpayer paid sabbatical of the new city manager, the nearly 100,000 parking...
Universities across the country have received billions of dollars from foreign governments.
A Baltimore Superintendent of Schools deleted 98 text messages from his taxpayer-funded...
OpenTheBooks.com just received some unredacted documents the National Institutes...
Anthony Fauci Provided Cover For $325 Million In Third-Party Royalties Paid In Secret...
During the pandemic, some Americans wondered just how close the federal government...
National Institutes of Health scientists raked in more than $325 million in royalties...
Longtime directors of NIH and its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
A list of Hawaii State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Opening the books on Austin Independent School District's 2023-2024 budget. At the...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) received approximately $325 million in royalty...
Opening the books on how much foreign influence there is in Maine's colleges and...
The average administrator in Clark County schools earns six figures, and with an...
The feds indicted a Baltimore nonprofit's CEO on fraud allegations. OpenTheBooks...
Drug makers in 31 foreign countries, including China, Russia, and Belarus, paid hundreds...
EXCLUSIVE — The Environmental Protection Agency in Joe Biden's first two years as...
Earmarks bypass the regular budgeting process in Congress.
Red flags on alleged money laundering, misused funds, no transparency on federal...
Big-Pharma, Chinese and Russian companies, and nefarious characters from around the...
How much foreign influence is there in higher education across Texas?
WASHINGTON (TND) — It has been a rocky week for America's credit after being downgraded...
Foreign aid to China & Russia, earmarks, NIH's secret royalty payment stream, and...
Why are taxpayer dollars flowing to adversarial nations?
Why OpenTheBooks supports Senator Rand Paul’s amendment.
The American people deserve to see who's "in" and who's "out" on earmarks. No secrets.
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski joined Maria Bartiromo to discuss EPA funding...
Quantifying agency operations during fiscal years 2018-2022.
A new comprehensive investigative report shows the billions of taxpayer dollars going...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO, talked about his research into waste and abuse...
Teenagers have been breaking into closed city swimming pools this summer. Many have...
In 2022, there were 114 congressional earmarks totaled $206 million in Nevada. This...
We opened the books on the Travis Co. public employee salaries.
The Biden administration has suspended funding for the Chinese lab at the center...
Government watchdog found over $325M went to NIH and its scientists since 2009.
The Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement received $13.4 million in...
The U.S. has spent $13 billion on unaccompanied minors at the southern border.
Government wasted billions of dollars (annually) due to duplicative spending.
Rep. Summer Lee cites our findings on the feds wasting $2.3 million in taxpayer funds...
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder, joined Russell Brand's Stay Free Podcast...
Property owners have started to sue in order to regain their home equity that municipalities...
OpenTheBooks analyzed the 2022 payroll for the Austin Independent School District,...
White House payroll reaches historic highs costing American taxpayers millions of...
When there’s a glimmer good news contra this mess, it’s worth taking a pause to acknowledge...
From billions of dollars in foreign aid to Russia & China, to billions in covid 'aid,'...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joined NewsmaxTV to discuss the $16 billion...
Seven of the top 10 lawmakers who used earmarks recently are Senate Republicans,...
Institutionalized incompetence at the hands of the federal government. In the first...
After a nearly 11-year ban, earmarks – money set aside for localized projects in...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Members of Congress used "earmarks" to allocate more than $16...
Bidenomics Hits the White House Payroll.
Joining us this morning to discuss the legalization of marijuana in Maryland is Adam...
Clark County spends about $313 million a year on homeless services — emergency homeless...
Metro Nashville is giving $375 million in economic development incentive grants and...
Our investigation on federal earmarks in Maine.
After a ten-year ban, a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans in Congress...
Congress earmarked 7,509 projects for $16,012,272,565 in taxpayer cost in the Consolidated...
Sen. Joni Ernst and OpenTheBooks.com: Your tax dollars are trickling down to everything...
Founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com Adam Andrzejewski sheds light on some of the...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that excess funds from municipal tax-debt...
Police in many states step up speed enforcement during the summer, especially during...
Baltimore has a budget and will spend $4.4 billion in the next year and top city...
We compared Nevada State Police Trooper pay to other agencies, such as Metro Nevada.
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joins America's Newsroom to discuss our...
The federal government has made nearly $3 trillion in “improper” payments over the...
Sen. Joni Ernst has announced legislation to take away IRS agents’ guns and ammunition,...
The city released new numbers in March showing nearly 5,100 unhoused people in Austin.
The federal government wasted an average of $683 million per day in 2022, according...
More than three years after the U.S. stopped sending taxpayer dollars to fund coronavirus...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) put forward legislation Tuesday to block the Internal Revenue...
So, what government program is running well?
The Biden administration wasted over half a trillion dollars in its first two years...
OpenTheBooks calculates the federal government spends $474,305 per minute on improper...
IRS Has Spent Over $32 Million Taxpayer Dollars on Weapons, Ammo
Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) questions HHS Secretary Xavier Bacerra on the $127B in improper...
We broke down Portland's city credit card spending, which included emergency shelter...
We took a deep dive into the $66 million spent to help rebuild Metro Nashville, after...
Seventeen of the largest federal agencies admitted to $3 trillion in improper payments...
While on track to waste $1 trillion of your taxes, they want to tax you even more.
At Least $528 Billion Wasted During First Two Years of Biden Administration.
Published in The Wall Street Journal, Section A, as a full page national display...
Mapping $16 Billion in Congressional Earmarks FY2023
Since the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Metro Nashville’s sidewalk...
Our OpenTheBooks auditors found $179 million in USA foreign aid to Canada over the...
A new documentary exposes Ivy League universities for their massive endowments and...
More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars have funded projects in Russia and China...
More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China over the past...
U.S. taxpayers are funding pointless projects in China and Russia. Will and Pete...
Senator Ernst and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) are leading the charge to...
In real time, the city of Baltimore has moved backwards and refuses to produce a...
Two lawmakers on Capitol Hill are leading the charge to account for every hard-earned...
Last week, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that Portland ranked #2 out of...
This week, the public employee unions pushed back on the interim city manager's back-to-...
Clark County spent $1.3 million on its credit cards in FY2022. More than 80% was...
Metro Nashville students are struggling, while the teachers are the highest paid...
'Washington’s continued spending is so out of hand, it is losing track of Americans’...
WASHINGTON – More than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars were sent to Russia and China...
Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied child...
Working for Austin city government in a leadership position is very lucrative. Recently,...
Federal funding to sponsor unaccompanied minors at the southern border reached an...
City Comptroller Bill Henry ran on a transparency promise. However, on his watch,...
Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure to provide for these...
Breaking news: Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied...
Our partners at OpenTheBooks.com have the updated 2022 speed and red light camera...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight analysis to the Texas State Police....
Government workers in Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson earned...
Billions of pandemic dollars were pocketed by top nonprofit hospitals.
Metro Nashville Public Schools spent $4.1 million on travel expenses in 2022, including...
GOP lawmakers have demanded spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling,...
Our auditors uncovered the top 20 hospitals who pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid...
Prepared testimony for the United States Senate Committee On Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Since 2010, Las Vegas-area law enforcement agencies have received $8.4 million worth...
Portland, Maine's city manager will cost taxpayers an estimated $900,000 - $1 million...
Metro Airport police received nearly $2 million worth of military surplus gear for...
Baltimore's failure to make weekly trash recycling pickups, despite a well-funded...
We opened the books on the Austin Police Department's partnership with the Texas...
The Baltimore mayor and city council are facing a lawsuit after failing to make weekly...
The top 20 hospitals pocketed $23 billion in Covid-aid from taxpayers.
We looked at the Portland police department and other local departments receiving...
We looked at the Austin police department and other local departments receiving surplus...
Clark County spent $1.5 million on training and travel-related expenses in fiscal...
What is the Gun Force Trace Settlement Tracker and how much has been paid out by...
Since the withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago, the U.S. has spent around $8...
What is the IRS gearing up for?
The taxmen are armed to the teeth.
John Bachman and Bianca de la Garza discuss our report, The Militarization of the...
Federal agencies such as the IRS and the EPA have spent nearly $4 billion on guns,...
A new report details a startling trend: Federal agencies with no obvious law enforcement...
And why does the IRS need guns?
Kudlow calls out the weaponization of the IRS, showcasing OpenTheBooks findings.
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst and watchdog organization OpenTheBooks demand transparency...
Today, the are more federal officers with arrest and firearm authority (200,000)...
Local governments and municipalities are spending taxpayer dollars to work (lobby)...
Clark County and the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson spent over $1 million collectively...
Two of Portland's hospitals were audited for their compliance with federal healthcare...
Billions of dollars have been spent over the past few decades to arm federal agencies...
We investigated the Baltimore Police Department and other local departments receiving...
There are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority (200,000) than...
After grabbing legal power, bureaucrats are amassing firepower. It’s time to scale...
Why does the IRS need five million rounds of ammunition?
After grabbing legal power, federal bureaucrats are amassing firepower.
In episode 219 of Glenn TV, Glenn Beck discusses our OpenTheBooks oversight report...
We joined the Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer to discuss Dr. Fauci’s lockdowns...
Sean Hannity properly cited our oversight report, The Militarization of the Federal...
Republican lawmakers want to stop the agency from purchasing more.
Adam Andrzejewski joins Rob Schilling to discuss the militarization of the U.S. executive...
$5.7 trillion of covid aid over 3 years equals $58K per second, including to wealthy...
Two of Baltimore’s largest non-profit or not-for-profit hospitals are among a small...
Three of Las Vegas’s largest hospitals have not been in compliance with a federal...
Three of Nashville’s largest non-profit hospitals have not been in total compliance...
Three of Austin’s largest non-profit hospitals have not been in total compliance...
Every Friday, we join FOX45 to discuss transparency in Baltimore. Here's a recap...
Wealthy nonprofit hospitals in Portland, Maine got wealthier during the pandemic...
Baltimore's nonprofit hospitals profited during the Covid pandemic.
As about 100 million Americans struggle with medical debt, two large nonprofit hospitals...
Tax revenues are at an all-time high spending in Washington and it’s not slowing...
Transparency has never been more important to the survival of our country as our...
We discussed the future of public health, and bipartisan corruption and spending...
Nevada’s underfunded pension system and retiree health care benefits have saddled...
Tennessee has one of the best funded pension systems, and Nashville also appears...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the crops producing our morning cup of coffee are in...
Government bureaucrats are slowly returning to the office after three years of working...
The head of Baltimore’s Bureau of Water and Wastewater, who was given $1 billion...
The City of Portland, Maine has been slow to respond to open records requests about...
Self-declared "woke administrator" moved to a different job in the Department of...
Since Congress began dispersing Covid-19 aid to schools in 2020, Metro Nashville...
Previously, OpenTheBooks found interesting city expenditures on plastic — the city...
New York City has already trashed more than $14.1 million worth of extra COVID supplies...
March Madness has come to Las Vegas, and with it a chance to look at what basketball...
America’s top doctor and his wife – the chief ethicist – were the administrative...
The Baltimore Police Department's forensic lab still doesn’t have the materials it...
We used the Texas open records law to force production of the wrongful death settlements...
Washington, D.C. has the highest work-from-home rate in the country and Americans...
The City of Henderson spent $2.9 million on its credit cards in 2022 — including...
New records show the DA’s office spent at least $32,000 on cameras since 2020 — some...
Who knew that the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank made 3 investments into Newsom's...
We investigated the close ties between the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and Gov....
California Governor Gavin Newsom's potential ties to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) have...
The bank just deleted their Twitter account. So much for transparency from a bank...
Our 2022 "Impacts & Successes" Annual Report is Here!
While Clark County has a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles, the cities of Las Vegas...
The city of Baltimore is struggling to pay off its crippling debt, and the burden...
Washington D.C. is overpaying for public housing and it's costing taxpayers millions...
The state of Maine may end up having trouble paying off its bills without burdening...
The City of Austin, Texas did not save any money to pay for future retirees’ healthcare...
Metro Nashville will start paying $7,000 per month to a private company for police...
Today, the culture of secrecy is more pervasive than ever before.
Just how much did it cost to shoot down that balloon?
Charities locally received federal monies, donors giving to the governor's inauguration...
Kelisa Wing is doubling down as her controversial children's books proliferate in...
Adam Andrzejewski summarizes Austin's recent shakeups and how much it has cost taxpayers.
In the fiscal year of 2023, Representative Kweisi Mfume D-MD has secured almost $24...
In the cities of North Las Vegas and Henderson, paid time off is generous for the...
While Metro Nashville officials say it’s going to take until at least August to produce...
A combined 606 copies of works authored or contributed to by Kelisa Wing are now...
While DOD obfuscates, Kelisa Wing’s racial justice propaganda proliferates, and she...
Top Republican Sen. Wicker on the Senate Armed Services Committee will address tackle...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski discusses our findings on U.S.-funded military...
Covid cash has been funding non-pandemic plans!
We uncovered that since 2010 the NIH hid $1.4 billion in third-party royalties paid...
We gave oversight to the federal digital divide dollars flowing into the City of...
Austin Police Department (APD) headcounts in 911 operators and rank-and-file police...
The 40-member Metro Nashville Council that Republican state lawmakers want to slash...
The U.S. Department of Education cannot pass an audit, even with a $49 billion taxpayer-funded...
Not including the cost of travel and conferences paid by taxpayers, Cronk will make...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pushed for billions of dollars in state funding...
Is the contract in the public's interest or in the special interest of the mayor?
We gave oversight to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, a local 501c3 organization...
Austin's response to the ice storm was a failure in transparency!
Test scores are plummeting, while teachers are getting paid more. We investigated...
"Legalized" pay-to-play in California – the Newsom's create problems, "solve" them,...
A major ice storm knocked power out for hundreds of thousands of residents when trees...
In Baltimore, trash pickup is once every two weeks and Baltimore's brown drinking...
Around 200 Metro employees are receiving taxpayer-funded monthly pensions. They also...
One quarter of Clark County School District’s 11,000 employees had a total compensation...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to cut spending and make sure Americans in...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com has been giving oversight to federal payrolls going...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight to the federal earmarks stuffed into...
While Nevada’s public pension system is facing an $18 billion deficit, it’s cutting...
We found that Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in America.
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County spent half a million...
An agency headed by a senator's wife got hundreds of millions of dollars through...
Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com joined KEYE CBS-Austin to discuss the...
In their first press conference at any point of the severe winter weather that hit...
Trace Gallagher joined Tucker Carlson to discuss our OpenTheBooks investigation on...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com gave oversight to the governor's transition and...
This week, we are taking a deeper dive into the City of Austin credit card expenditure...
Metro Nashville has begun working on a five-year plan to implement its goal of zero...
A 2022 audit of the Department of Defense found hundreds of millions of dollars and...
Paid time off given to City of Las Vegas employees is so generous that in 2021, the...
CEO of Open The Books, Adam Andrzejewski joins OAN’s Alicia Summers to discuss our...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the horrific...
Rachel O'Brien with OpenTheBooks.com joined discussed our findings on the relationship...
Yesterday, Hollywood star Russell Brand posted our 20-minute podcast interview on...
This week, we'll kick off our deep dive into the Baltimore nonprofits profiting from...
The Representation Project pulls in revenue from public schools while pushing a far-left...
A judge found that Nashville Fire Department’s defamation and derogatory statements...
Billions of taxpayer dollars for the COVID-19 Lost Wages Assistance program went...
2.6 million students across 11,200 classrooms and 5,000 schools are subjected to...
The NIH has benefited from $1.4 billion in secret third-party royalties over the...
In 2022, OpenTheBooks.com published reports on spending in the City of Las Vegas,...
Starting in 2022, we partnered with OpenTheBooks.com on a Transparency Tracker segment...
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s non-profit, The Representation Project, raises money from...
Starting in Fall 2022, KEYE CBS-Austin partnered with OpenTheBooks.com on a Transparency...
Open The Books founder Adam Andrzejewski joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat...
In 2022, OpenTheBooks.com published about 20 reports on spending in Metropolitan...
OpenTheBooks has led the way in asking Congress to put every piece of legislation...
Adam Andrzejewski talked about the Republican-led Congress' approach to government...
This to-do list is just a start, and it’s an agenda that’s tangible. As always, we’ll...
At least $325 million in third-party paid royalty payments from healthcare entities...
Southwest Airlines stranded tens of thousands of passengers around the country on...
John Bachman show highlights our OpenTheBooks investigation on how Southwest Airlines...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski and his family were just a few on the...
More than 5,000 Southwest Airlines flights across the United States have been cancelled...
Our investigation into the $1.7 billion omnibus bill.
In these hyper-partisan times, Democrats and Republicans found common ground – using...
Southwest stole Christmas for tens of thousands of its passengers.
Amid the ongoing Southwest Airlines crisis leaving thousands of passengers stranded...
A deep dive inside the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill.
Earmarks are the currency of corruption in Congress. Watch the interview and learn...
Texas republicans out-earmarked democrats $500 million to $300 million.
In Maine, republican senator Susan Collins out-earmarked all democrats collectively—...
7,500 earmarks for $16 billion are included in the latest year-end omnibus spending...
The Nevada democratic congressional delegation requested $173 million in earmarks...
A new investigation from government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks has revealed the...
Last year, the City of Baltimore didn’t follow rules required to use federal funds,...
Watch and learn about the top local governments that received a federal grant in...
Meet the Austin Independent School District’s $100,000 Club.
More than 95% of PPP loans were forgiven, and many were sent out to wealthy organizations,...
OpenTheBooks.com investigations can guide them.
On this week's "Waste of the Week," Medicaid is overspending and costing taxpayers...
Today, critics blame the massive largess in “Covid-aid” for spiking the inflation...
$64 billion in federal grants flowed to 294 entities with an Austin, Texas address....
The fiscal year of the U.S. federal government just ended on September 30. The most...
We found nearly $1.5 billion in forgiven Paycheck Protection Program loans went to...
The Mayor of Baltimore vetoed a fast-tracked measure from the city council this week....
The big firms got bigger and you paid for it during the Covid pandemic!
Law firm Boies Schiller Flexner received $10 million in forgiven pandemic loans from...
This week, President Joe Biden continued to tout the spending within the $1.9 trillion...
Metro Nashville is paying almost 200 people for part-time work while also paying...
When negotiating pay packages for public employees, everything has to be on the table...
Big law and accounting firms raked in $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed COVID-19 "relief"...
We took a snapshot of forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and found...
The big firms got bigger and you paid for it during the Covid pandemic.
More than 160 Chinese-born scientists who conducted U.S. taxpayer-funded military...
Paycheck Protection Program - Forgiven Loans
OpenTheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski unpacks a watchdog report that says $20...
The new ‘minimum wage’ for government work is now $100,000+.
More than 150 Chinese-born scientists who did U.S. taxpayer-funded military research...
The City of Austin paid out 1,292 grants for a total of $211,224,588 last year! Check...
Baltimore City student test scores have dropped to some of the lowest in the country....
In 2021, the City of Las Vegas contracted with 2,515 distinct vendors who received...
Unfortunately, many businesses have abused the PPP, and many of these loans have...
More than 600 businesses in Seattle received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgiveness...
Millions of U. S. dollars have been given to 11 American universities that fund overtly...
Nothing rankles taxpayers more than lawmakers reaping lifetime retirement pensions...
Meet the Portland $70,000 Club – 406 city employees who out-earned Maine Governor...
Last week, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com identified the Las Vegas $100,000 Club...
Working for Austin city government in a leadership position is very lucrative!
Over 130,000 state workers making over $100,000 in annual salary or pension
"Waste of the Week" on TND: City Spends $1.7M to Install Single Toilet In Town Square
How The PIA Handles Requests.
Illinois debt teetered close to junk bond status until nearly $200 billion in Covid...
Meet Portland’s $70,000 Club.
Meet The Las Vegas $100,000 Club
Nearly 550,000 Unused Sick And Vacation Days "Banked" By Metro Nashville Public School...
The Department of Homeland Security spent more than $400 million a year just to track...
The SBA has forgiven 95 percent of all its PPP loans, in full or in part, including...
How do you debate pay, perks, and pension benefits for public employees if everything...
Metro Nashville gave away $4.8 million in grants to non-profits this year, including...
Illinois Public Employee Salaries & Pensions $100,000+ (2020-2021)
More than $600 million was handed out in COVID-19 aid to ineligible nonprofits and...
An hour-by-hour timeline of what Dr. Fauci was doing in the months before and after...
$800 BILLION in taxpayer money was used to help save the economy during the pandemic,...
A California program is paying people not to have a car and Oregon is spending nearly...
A Baltimore City School police officer is on pace to earn more than his annual salary...
We received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes...
Kelisa Wing advocates a racial reckoning, a revolution in the Pentagon's K-12 schools....
'OpenTheBooks' launched an investigation following tweets from Kelisa Wing, a Department...
3,569 City Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks
Dr. Anthony Fauci's net worth reportedly grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic...
While millions of Americans suffered under his pandemic policies, Fauci's personal...
The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the...
Waste, Fraud, Corruption And Taxpayer Abuse -- Government's War On Transparency....
If your current elected officials continue to show a complete lack of respect for...
The City of Baltimore paid $1,155 for City Council President Nick Mosby to attend...
The fight continues! Sen. Rand Paul (R) grilled Dr. Fauci on those hidden NIH royalty...
For the first time in 13 years, New York City failed to find beds for dozens of men...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, and Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed during a Wednesday Senate hearing...
An investigation into LA county's public employees uncovered a massive mileage misuse...
Independent transparency non-profit Open the Books has dived deep into California’s...
LEGAL PAY-TO-PLAY: California Governor Gavin Newsom has quietly solicited millions...
The top 30 vendors accounted for $5 billion of the contracts after donating $1.5...
There remains so much to be done before the Transparency Revolution will be anywhere...
Pay to play is legal in California as there are no statewide prohibitions.
Millions in donations to Governor Gavin Newsom's campaign have resulted in billions...
We accomplished what the governor, controller, attorney general, lawmakers, a Superior...
The books are finally open in the Golden State!
Gavin Newsom's Campaign Donations
A 22,500-square-foot jail expansion project in Mendocino County, California, was...
Would you want Nashville’s top public defender to represent you in court?
California's books are FINALLY open. We kept our promise to force open the books...
Is the spending in the public interest, or the special interest?
Dr. Fauci announces his retirement. Was he forced out from the inside?
"I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director...
This week's "Waste of the Week" on The National Desk highlights the roughly $96,000...
In fiscal year 2021, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County...
A large nonprofit organization that left other Baltimore projects and organizations...
The early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were hard on most people, but especially...
The "Waste of the Week" goes to the Connecticut Port Authority and President Joe...
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville's employees drove more than 700 taxpayer-funded...
The company denies that its surveys function as the gateway for critical race theory...
On June 3, 2022, we sampled 50 nonprofits receiving city grants and found that 15...
Oregon state officials are being scrutinized after an audit on the state's education...
Why Does Your IRS Auditor Need a Machine Gun?
The Export-Import Bank.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent $2.3 million on unused data plans and...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com looked into how EX-IM executives and politicians...
We found that there were 700 Baltimore school employees that were paid to stay home...
The city of Nashville paid more than 9,000 employees $28 million in overtime in 2021!...
Jesse Watters reports on our OpenTheBooks investigation that highlights Dr. Fauci's...
California Gov. Gavin News plans to send billions in gas checks without lowering...
During President Joe Biden’s first two-years, he spent $100.7 million on the largest...
It’s the largest federal retirement package in history. An unprecedented golden parachute...
Adam Andrzejewski details our Where's The Pork? oversight report on C-SPAN's Washington...
Open the Books is suing in federal court, seeking to force the National Institutes...
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information...
Congressional Third Party Paid Travel: Between 2017 and 2021, more than 500 Congress...
Thousands of Paid-For Congressional Trips, Millions of Dollars in Federal Grants,...
Some officials in the City of Baltimore get taxpayer-funded vehicles.
As violence in Baltimore rises, the city's mayors continue to receive raises!
Despite 220 staffers quitting last year, the Biden Administration has spent more...
Just how much federal pork and waste are your tax dollars funding?
President Biden's bloated White House is the most expensive since 1995! In 2021,...
220 staffers left what used to be the most expensive White House payroll in American...
President Joe Biden’s Office of the White House spending in his first year tops...
The Office of the Vice President, or OVP, isn’t subject to FOIA because, it argues,...
Recently, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci for details of hidden...
The trillions of dollars spent on COVID-19 "bailouts" will be a subject of controversy...
Two recent audits from Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry’s office found “fiscal...
Exposing the continued fleecing of America.
The City of Baltimore has collected $62.5 million in fines from 142 speed camera...
Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul got into a heated dispute with Dr. Anthony...
Sen. Rand Paul grills Dr. Fauci, asking if he has ever received royalty payments...
A group of five senators in Washington, D.C. are demanding answers after our investigation...
OpenTheBooks put Baywatch on Pay Watch after our investigation that revealed just...
Launched on FOX45 (WBFF) Baltimore, our organization at OpenTheBooks.com found that...
House of Representatives staff and Capitol Police officers can receive free Peloton...
Recipients of secret royalty payments who hold key roles at the National Institutes...
Dr. Gallo left NIH in 1995. However, between 2010 and 2016, he ranked #1 of 1,805...
After more than two years now of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, questions...
More than 1,800 government scientists collected 27,244 royalty payments worth hundreds...
The most frequently paid scientist, Robert C. Gallo, received 316 payments between...
A sampling of organizations that do business with the City of Baltimore has revealed...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cell phones and a big bonus for one...
Emily Compagno and her "Outnumbered" co-hosts discuss our findings on L.A. lifeguards...
OpenTheBooks finds Los Angeles is shelling out executive-level pay to some lifeguards.
Lifeguards in Los Angeles county made more than $500K in 2021. The highest-paid lifeguard...
Baywatch needs to go on pay watch!
If the Department of Finance doesn’t already have the records for spending from 12-months...
The WEF received $60 million In taxpayer funding over the last eight years.
The Highway Trust Fund has projected an annual $18 BILLION loss the over the next...
The WEF soaked up $60 million In taxpayer funding over the last eight years.
Adam Andrzejewski discusses our investigation on Davos, a conference hosted by the...
The city of Baltimore seems to be altering their numbers across the board... Millions...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received more scrutiny of its activities...
Mr. Musk asked "who funds them?" We answered... and, in part, it's you.
It's the first time since 2005 that the NIH royalty payments receive oversight.
Russell Brand gives an in-depth analysis of our findings on Anthony Fauci and NIH...
Big Pharma is SECRETLY sending hundreds of millions of dollars to NIH scientists,...
It shouldn't have taken a federal lawsuit and subpoenas to force NIH into production...
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health received royalty payments from third-party...
The U.S. State Department is going to send up to $50,000 to nonprofits and universities...
This year, Baltimore’s cyber security insurance coverage amount was halved while...
The National Institutes of Health — Anthony Fauci's employer — admits to holding...
uncovered approximately $350 million in royalty payments to the National Institutes...
An Analysis By Victor Davis Hanson.
California's public school districts are paying an education consultant $5,000 an...
The City of Baltimore has collected between $51 million and $62 million in fines...
City agencies produced numbers that are wildly apart – differing by $11 million in...
Hospitals have been ignoring Former President Trump's price transparency rule, and...
Can't we all agree that college students should be real?
college students should be real! Right?
When it comes to spending your tax dollars, California holds a unique and unpleasant...
Teacher's unions donated heavily to keep the schools closed to classroom instruction.
The top law enforcement officer in the City of Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, is under...
They're milking taxpayers like dairy cows!
The SunRail commuter rail system in Orlando, Florida is currently running a $50 MILLION...
It’s like playing baseball with one side (patients) wearing blindfolds and the other...
The City of Baltimore disclosed 13,990 employees – full and part-time workers – who...
Three of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the U.S. made a combined $120...
Baltimore ransomware attacks could be costing the taxpayers money.
According to our findings, the Pentagon’s latest project will spend up to $3.8 million...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is withholding records related to Dr. Anthony...
Megyn Kelly is joined by Adam Andrzejewski to discuss the efforts to block transparency...
How can Dr. Fauci out-earn everybody at the federal level?
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the most highly compensated federal employee and the most visible....
Forbes couldn’t resist the pressure from the National Institutes of Health.
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski was fired as a contributor at Forbes after...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski's termination occurred after posting 'too many...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski discusses how fact-finding the salary...
Should the man who presided over the city’s underfunded pension system get a $153,223...
Today, there are more people that are unhoused than ever before in the city of Los...
Do we have a representative republic if our representatives don't even have the time...
Forbes has cut off its association with a prolific contributor after he wrote a number...
Safe Streets is designed to de-escalate conflicts before they become violent. But...
While it’s unclear whether a program designed to curb violence in Baltimore is working,...
President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion spending bill last week that passed in...
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the most highly compensated federal employee making $456,028...
Creating more transparency and accountability for city-funded programs should be...
While travel around the country was curtailed during the Covid-19 pandemic, an organization...
The Senate has passed a massive $1.5 trillion federal spending bill with more than...
Lenawee County in Michigan is using COVID relief funds to build a sporting complex.
Is it time for Fauci to retire?
Aspen Institute employees contributed more than $800K to Democratic candidates and...
Half a million dollars in U.S. tax funds are to be spent to support independent media...
However, during the last week, working with the mayor, we helped make it a little...
Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris may sit atop lists of the best places to take a...
Between 2017 and 2021, more than 500 Congress members disclosed that they took more...
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall received Dr. Fauci’s unredacted FY2020 financial disclosures....
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski was let go from Forbes after 8 years and...
If your name is Adam Andrzejewski and you publish an article on Dr. Fauci on digital...
More than $80 billion in unemployment benefits have been claimed fraudulently. The...
On January 14th, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared...
The U.S. Department of State's Office of Overseas Schools has mismanaged more than...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski's author archive at Forbes.com.
The Biden administration has laid out plans through the U.S. Treasury to open up...
NIH admits it holds approximately 1,200 pages relating to Fauci’s financial information...
If Dr. Fauci retired today, he would reap the largest federal retirement package...
U.S. government entered a contract with a nonprofit organization that provides legal...
Newfound information on Dr. Fauci's household net worth, investments, and much more.
The U.S. response to Covid is premised on a never-ending declaration of health emergency.
$25,000 in taxpayer money is being used to grow China’s surfing community...
Why are any college students today in a remote learning environment?
Learning for thousands of students is still remote due to COVID-19.
Westfield, New Jersey, spent COVID-19 aid on 2,000 promotional tote bags that sat...
Did Dr. Fauci profit off the pandemic?
Fauci's financial disclosures aren't listed in the same searchable database as many...
A California Superintendent was paid over $160,000, even though he wasn't even living...
Dr. Anthony Fauci insists that his financial records are available to the public....
In a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s finances came into question.
Thanks to your support, 2021 was a fantastic year for OpenTheBooks' mission and impact....
$3.6 billion in COVID relief aid was given to people who did not qualify for the...
Everyday, we highlight one quick, blood-boiling example of how our government is...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski discusses Dr. Fauci's big retirement package....
"Protection for me, but NOT for thee!"
OpenTheBooks.com CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski describes Dr. Fauci's retirement package...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski discusses our breaking investigation on...
There were more than $39 billion in improper unemployment payments during the first...
Billions of dollars in equipment was left behind in Afghanistan following the U.S....
NTD spoke with Adam Andrzejewski, who discussed our numerous investigations from...
What began as a simple salary data search on officers in the New Orleans Police Department...
The FBI as well as several other federal agencies spent about half a billion dollars...
The Waste Of The Week went to the VA hiring spree and an Ivy League study on overweight...
An open letter to you, the American taxpayer.
Only 1 in 10 sworn officers on the force were deployed to interior and exterior posts...
The rising cost of healthcare is undermining the American Dream.
Federal agencies have spent trillions of dollars in unnecessary government spending.
Just search with your state and zip code!
Senatorial libraries are the new "monuments to me" and might soon be funded with...
Do we have a representative republic if the representatives get to hide all transactions...
A Cali. Supreme Court order for a lawsuit demanding that the state controller disseminate...
The funding was meant to help schools reopen and get kids back into classrooms safely,...
We can't make America great again until we make America accountable again.
Who knew that taxpayers were subsidizing Hollywood through federal contracts?
Federal informants minted as millionaires.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to rid the city of Donald Trump.
The FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on confidential human sources between...
Many wealthy Americans received stimulus payments as well.
Adam Andrzejewski discusses our lawsuit for Dr. Anthony Fauci's financial disclosures.
The Ivy League doesn’t need taxpayer help!
In fiscal year 2021, the U.S. government paid $246.9 million in claims for vaccine-related...
The Ivies added $44 billion to their endowments this year, and new estimates show...
A county in Utah used $322K in COVID funds to expand a snow tubing hill.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of OpenTheBooks.com...
It’s hard for American citizens to follow the money in Washington, D.C. if the Federal...
Senate Democrats continue to fight among themselves over President Joe Biden’s proposed...
Dr. Anthony Fauci Received Big Pay Increase To Prevent Pandemics.
Fauci gets a pay raise!
AG Merrick Garland connected to student survey group.
Panorama Education is under massive scrutiny...
Conflict of interest: 131 judges violated the law by hearing cases involving companies...
Garland's move to have the FBI investigate parents at school board meetings quickly...
Mayor Lightfoot’s proposal would give $500 monthly payments for 12 months.
Our deep dive into our findings on how the Biden Administration handled the crisis...
VP Kamala Harris’ office recently rejected our Freedom of Information Act request...
It's all part of the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Included in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is a hike in fines from OSHA regarding...
Before Congress considers raising the debt limit again, they should take a look at...
The swamp is even deeper!
Did House dems sneak in an OSHA provision to enforce Biden's vax mandate?
The swamp gets deeper!
In 100 of 122 executive agencies, the average pay exceeded $100,000 per year.
A Study of the Administrative State (FY2020).
The unemployment system is rife with fraud.
Trillions of dollars have been spent on covid aid, but trillions more are not getting...
Only $2 million out of $316 million has actually been distributed.
Why didn't the U.S. pull all military equipment before leaving Afghanistan?
In 2016 California legalized recreational marijuana, but the move may be costing...
The Biden Administration has erased Afghan weapons reports from federal websites.
The state controller says she can't "locate" a single one of the 50 million payments...
How and where the US spent $282.6 billion (FY 2013-2018)
Everything that hasn’t been destroyed is the Taliban’s now.
The War in Afghanistan has always been a black box, but the Biden administration...
Over the past ten days, Afghanistan has become a Taliban terrorist gun show.
We have literally provided the Taliban with an Air Force!
This is the the latest example of how the insurgents are flaunting their newly acquired...
We've found that a lot of US military equipment has been left behind in Afghanistan.
The Biden Administration is hiding previously published audit reports quantifying...
The U.S. war chest of military gear left behind for the bad guys is unprecedented.
How much U.S. military equipment does the Taliban now control?
The U.S. taxpayer was very generous with the Afghan people.
Afghanistan topped the list of 170 counties receiving U.S. foreign aid. In FY2018...
Taxpayers may be on the hook for $42.5 BILLION for government-owned internet, thanks...
How did everything the U.S. built collapse so quickly?
Laura Ingraham discusses our findings on how taxpayer dollars were used for aid to...
Renovations at the United Nations building in Manhattan cost nearly a billion dollars...
Hypocrisy or Necessity?
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski discusses our latest oversight report on Foreign...
Democrat mayors who called for defunding the police were using taxpayer dollars to...
The San Francisco Bay Area subway expansion is nearly $2 billion over budget.
The American taxpayer has been very generous to foreign countries over a long period...
Where do the billions in foreign aid go? About half of all foreign aid goes to Africa...
If this doesn't make you scream, you might be unconscious.
Critics ask, "Why does protection for the people matter less?"
The Policy Circle discussed government transparency and accountability with some...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) awarded her latest Squeal Award (Jul. 27) to the Federal...
Ernst is introducing the Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act to preserve taxpayer dollars.
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com will have a target-rich environment to shine a white-hot...
De Blasio, Lightfoot, Breed are among the beneficiaries of the taxpayer-funded security...
It's up to you to hold them accountable.
Police protection hypocrisy.
Defund for thee, but not for me.
Adam Andrzejewski speaks at Freedom Fest at Mount Rushmore.
Why did democratic mayors defund their police, and then spend millions of taxpayer...
In 25 major U.S. cities across the country, officials have proposed cutting — or...
Why does protection for the people matter less?
Democratic Mayors defunded their police, while spending millions on their own police...
If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president’s commitment to...
We took a deep dive into President Biden's 2021 White House Payroll.
Taxpayer abuse doesn't sleep.
Pork is back on the table in Congress and it’s being served red.
Taxpayers across America remember and miss the good Democratic senator from Wisconsin.
As civil unrest loomed last year, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot fully compensated police...
This makes 44 paid days off for the average federal employee annually, which is nearly...
Andrzejewski gives examples of wasteful government spending and "filthy rich" communities...
Did Anthony Fauci blur the lines between propaganda, public affairs, and publicity?
American Greed's 6/14 episode on the crimes & conviction of disgraced congressman...
The Depth of the Swamp and what you can do about it.
How much government money is incorrectly doled out?
Foster Friess was a good friend; OpenTheBooks board advisor; and will be missed by...
Should taxpayers foot the bill for mood lighting in National Parks?
Trump cut the Palestinian aid to zero in 2018. Now, Biden has reversed it.
35,940 lawyers work in 200 federal agencies and the headcount is at an all-time high.
Savvy bargaining has gotten L.A. lifeguards handsome benefits and six-figure salaries.
We mapped each earmark by congressional district.
Pork is back on the table in Congress!
Don't bring back the earmark favor factory!
Each day in our #WASTEOFTHEDAY we highlight one quick, blood-boiling example of how...
The CCP received up to $420 million in PPP loan funds in 2020.
Public employees in Boston will continue to earn high wages thanks to taxpayer bailouts.
There is a $31 billion shift and it has shifted to blue states.
Republicans voted no, but took the dough.
With a $225,000 salary, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the country’s highest paid...
Illinois public employees and retirees with $100,000+ paychecks grew to an all-time...
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed H.R. 1, which adds a new paid holiday...
Illinois Public Employee Salaries & Pensions $100,000+ (2019-2020)
The American people want to know how corrupt their government is… at ALL levels!
The only green in the green energy bill might be the taxpayer money down the drain.
Congress needs to #ReadTheBill!
The doctor is well-paid for his role — and his high salary has helped give him a...
Baltimore City Schools spent hundreds of thousands of dollars paying "hall monitors"...
Everyone’s getting rich and the kids aren’t learning!
Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative!
Only 2 of the top 20 earners were women!
Life’s a beach for these California lifeguards.
President Biden has announced an enormous jobs and infrastructure package.
Earmarks are the fiscal equivalent to swine flu, and unfortunately, they're back.
The most recent bill will provide just under $200 billion in state and local government...
The Dem. majority in the U.S. House of Reps. will allow up to $13B in earmarks on...
Lawmakers are criticizing $350 billion in the COVID relief bill.
How much money is really going toward COVID relief?
Many wealthy, influential, and politically networked people received first round...
Bureaucrats are paid to stay home if their child is out of school.
The wasteful spending in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill is discussed.
Everyone’s getting rich and the kids aren’t learning.
Is there wasteful spending in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill?
Let the good times roll, until the debt comes crashing down.
Air date: March 4, 2021
This week, the U.S. House passed, along party lines, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue...
We mapped the states, cities, and localities that received money from the $350 billion...
Adam Andrzejewski joins the discussion on unemployment fraud.
Trump is the first president since John F. Kennedy to donate his salary.
Is President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill a critical lifeline...
Over the weekend, the U.S. House posted a first draft version of the $1.9 trillion...
Buried on page 305 of the $1.9 Trillion “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” is a provision...
Aired on roughly 200 ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates of the Sinclair network across...
Critics are calling it the "bailout for bureaucrats."
The U.S. House version of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” has an extra perk...
The USPS boasts a massive budget as well as massive losses, and the problem goes...
In 2020, Chicago had 20,927 full-time teachers at a total payroll cost of $2.3 billion.
Nationwide Public Salaries and Pensions Over $100K (2019)
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a quasi-public federal agency, paid their new...
Some members of Congress have tried to introduce term limits to no avail.
Dr. Fauci is not only the highest paid doctor in the federal government, but the...
Q&A for FOIA
When you bill an insurance company $2,715 for a COVID-19 test you probably don’t...
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. disclosed...
According to auditors at OpentheBooks, 20,000 city employees across all departments...
If elected Members of Congress, the press, and the people, don’t have time to read...
New data shows that the federal government has become one never-ending gun show.
In the last 20 years, our country’s national debt has exploded.
Dr. Anthony Fauci made $417,608 in 2019, the latest year for which federal salaries...
Fauci pulled in $417,608.00 in 2019—his largest haul ever.
The #1 most highly compensated federal employee is Dr. Anthony Fauci! How is it possible...
The four head coaches from football powerhouses Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and...
In so many ways, members of Congress shove to the front of the line, living large...
Dead people received $871.9 million in mistaken payments.
Whenever we open the books, Los Angeles consistently ranks among the worst tax and...
Dominion Voting Systems was paid $118.3 million to provide election services during...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joined Bill Cameron on Connected to Chicago...
Dominion Voting Systems is the 2nd largest vendor in the non-transparent and entrenched...
Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies have admitted to disbursing an astonishing...
There are some big numbers showing the federal government spending billions of dollars.
We found that the 50 richest places in the country would get $350 million in bailouts...
Tax records show more than a dozen of the loan recipients owed a combined $21,000...
We mapped $400 billion in HEROES Act monies that are allocated to 39,000 local governments.
Should the American taxpayers from lower-income areas be subsidizing the lifestyles...
OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski joins Stu Burguiere on Blaze TV to discuss...
Governor Andrew Cuomo has embraced the highly unethical practice of soliciting campaign...
Gov. Cuomo received campaign funds from the hospital organizations that lobbied for...
2014-2019
Just how much federal waste, duplication and weird or unnecessary spending are your...
Los Angeles is in trouble, and tourists should be advised to avoid some neighborhoods...
Just how much federal waste, duplication, and weird or unnecessary spending are your...
City of LA Homeless Encampments
Mayor Bill de Blasio is aggressively pushing for a $12.4 billion federal bailout.
Local law enforcement agencies have since 1993 received billions of dollars’ worth...
Approximately 8,200 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies from 49 states...
San Francisco is in trouble! Whenever we open the books, San Francisco consistently...
Our recent Use-It-Or-Lose-It oversight report details late fiscal year federal spending...
Taxpayers of America, you may soon be funding a $500 billion bailout of the 50 states,...
Adam Andrzejewski and special guest Peter Schweiser discuss corruption in the U.S....
Christmas comes in September, not December, for federal contractors.
In 2019, the city manager in Laredo, Texas, made $880,486. It doubled the earnings...
The U.S. taxpayer pours billions into Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, New York,...
"Transparency is great, but where's the impact?"
Everything is bigger in Texas—including the supersized salaries of its city managers,...
On July 16, 2020, OpenTheBooks CEO/Founder spoke at Health Tech Austin's Healthcare...
The SBA released data on which businesses received forgivable loans under the Paycheck...
SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loans ($1-$10 Million)
SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loans Over $1M
The Trump administration released its annual report to Congress on the White House...
Retirement perks include a lifetime pension and a taxpayer-matched savings plan with...
New data released by the Small Business Administration shows taxpayers gave more...
We dug into Seattle’s pay and pension records for 2019 to figure out how the city...
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation requiring all senators and representatives...
Florida Restaurant Inspections May 2020
Nation Wide Federal Grants for 2019
Open The Books CEO/Founder Adam Andrzejewski hosts an event where he discussed Open...
Local politicians in Washington, D.C. claim a $1.5 billion budget deficit due to...
WASHINGTON (SBG) — They may not enjoy an overall high approval rating, but for members...
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a record 44 million Americans lost their...
Once elected to Congress, members are in a rare and exclusive club.
Serving in Congress is a privilege. In the history of our nation, only 10,363 House...
New York's financial woes aren’t stopping 290,304 government employees from bringing...
The wildest rodeo in Cheyenne this year looks like it’ll be the transparency battle...
Recently, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked U.S. taxpayers for a bailout.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said numerous times during his daily COVID-19 news briefings...
The country is feeling a lot of stress thanks to the coronavirus, and it’s got the...
We found 5,137 colleges and universities that were awarded $12.5 billion in coronavirus...
Open the Books released its congressional oversight report on Friday, which details...
Mapping the California $100k+ Club.
Mapping the NY $100k+ Club.
Texas Public Employee Salaries $100,000+ (2018-2019)
Struggling hospitals and those hardest hit by COVID-19 should get more federal funding...
State-by-state map of the CARES Act allocation of $12.5B to higher education institutions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a $3 trillion coronavirus aid on May 12, 2020
As lawmakers in Washington rushed to pass a nearly $2.3 trillion stimulus package...
Open The Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski explains that Illinois' pension situation is...
Illinois Public Employee Salaries & Pensions $100,000+ (2018-2019)
Steve Cortes of Fox & Friends discusses our Open The Books findings on Illinois'...
Illinois could soon be the first state in history to have its bonds rated as “junk.”
Reps. AOC, Jerrold Nadler, and 8 other NY members of Congress argued that “museums...
Deliberately closing down the economy, which has never been done before, has created...
President Trump legitimized critics who allege that the agency shielded information...
Adam Andrzejewski discusses how taxpayer dollars are used in the World Health Organization.
Sen. Kennedy on Democrats accused of adding unrelated spending provisions to $2.2T...
Last Saturday, America lost a true giant and one of the great men in our nation’s...
Open The Books Honorary Chairman Sen. Tom Coburn passed away on March 27, 2020.
Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion “Phase III” emergency...
On March 25, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion “Phase III” emergency...
In an effort to provide the most up-to-date information, Johns Hopkins University...
It was a three year fight to open the books on the entire payroll of the Wyoming...
With the stock market in correction, public health alerts, travel restrictions, and...
The CDC, which is America's main line of defense against infectious diseases seem...
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on February 20, 2020, at the Hillsdale...
For the first time in American history, President Trump is including a bold and detailed...
The blueprint for President Donald Trump’s future priorities is now official with...
In 2017, Speaker Pelosi famously cajoled House Republicans to produce a budget, warning...
President Trump sent Congress a $4.8 trillion budget request for fiscal 2021.
For the first time, there are more residents of the nation’s capital who make at...
President Donald Trump is taking action to declare war on waste. We reviewed an advance...
The Trump administration’s budget for fiscal year 2021 will take steps to curb what...
Mohammed Nuru was arrested and charged by the FBI on allegations of bribery, wire...
Unfortunately, last fall, California State Controller Betty Yee (pictured) rejected...
We have sued the state of California for refusing to release its state checkbook...
State auditor blasts Fi$Cal system, which critics say cannot even produce a simple...
California’s state government has yet to provide the group with any details about...
Out of the 50 states, California is the only one that refuses to produce its state...
A growing number of California state agencies are missing budget deadlines because...
Corrupt members of Congress deserve time in prison, not taxpayer-funded federal pensions....
Consensus and bipartisanship are rare in Washington, D.C. – except when it comes...
The Golden State threatens accountability and transparency.
Nationwide Public Salaries and Pensions Over $95K (2017)
As commander in chief, President Donald Trump can lead the ‘War on Waste.' Sign our...
Open The Books prime time interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News discussing our...
How is 97 percent of Congress able to get re-elected each year even though only 17...
Adam Andrzejewski discusses OpenTheBooks Oversight Report "The Congressional Favor...
A Study Of Federal Grants, Campaign Cash, Investments, Employment, Power & Influence...
Democratic presidential primary candidates are spending a lot of time talking about...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins will likely get to keep his congressional pension...
The largest federal agencies just completed a billion-dollar, year-end spending binge...
WASHINGTON—During the biggest federal spending week of the Fiscal Year, U.S. Senator...
Sen. Joni Ernst (IA) credits OpenTheBooks for findings on irresponsible fiscal-year-end...
Federal agencies have shelled out tens of millions of dollars on cars, movie cameras...
We are uncovering how some federal agencies are spending your money.
Draining the Swamp.
It’s no secret that football and basketball coaches at public universities command...
The public’s support of small business is as all-American as apple pie.
Our auditors found that millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidized loans meant for...
Following the tragedy of the Parkland shooting, Superintendent Runcie took up legislative...
Latest oversight of the SBA reveals misaligned priorities, with hundreds of millions...
Adam Andrzejewski talked about a new report on America’s debt and spending habits.
Lending Practices FY2014-FY2018
A study of Federal Grants, Campaign Cash, Investments, Employment, Power & Influence.
We found the city drowning in taxpayer dollars.
On a horrific Valentine’s Day in 2018, 17 students and staffers were killed and 17...
A new report is shedding light on Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie's...
According to the New York Times, rat complaints have risen from 12,617 in 2014 to...
Wyoming has launched a new government financial transparency website.
The top 82 non-profit hospitals grew their combined net assets by nearly 24% last...
“Both parties are engaged in a war on math that math will eventually win,” said Adam...
This year, not only did the president add employees, but his total payroll increased...
We're launching our latest oversight report - "Top 82 U.S. Non-Profit Hospitals:...
We banded the salaries of the top healthcare executives in our recent oversight report.
Our oversight report "Top 82 U.S. Non-Profit U.S. Hospitals: Quantifying Government...
OpenTheBooks.com | American Transparency
We believe that the utter lack of transparency in the healthcare industry is one...
A listing of our top media hits and a full list of our broadcast, online, and print...
Our co-investigation with the New York Times. Complaints to the city provided no...
New York City 311 Rat Sightings (2018-2019)
The rat war is now two years old. So how’s the city faring?
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Segment based on our co-investigation of the...
Gentrifying neighborhoods are a key reason behind the vermin outbreak, which extends...
City of Baltimore 311 Calls Rats and Illegal Dumping Requests (2019)
Fortune 100 companies are successful because they care about return on investment...
OpenTheBooks has issued a new report, detailing billions of dollars spent by Fortune...
The federal government is reportedly spending billions to fund a number of Fortune...
Adam Andrzejewski discusses our latest oversight report "Federal Funding of Fortune...
Fortune 100 companies are among the most aggressive at lobbying Washington — and...
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), known for making Washington “squeal,” is introducing...
At a Cabinet meeting last October, President Trump instructed the heads of every...
We've mapped every reported case of hypodermic needles found on the city streets...
Today, the City of San Francisco is in trouble.
Once a great city of America, San Francisco is facing a dramatic rise in sanitary...
Today, San Francisco hosts an estimated homeless population of 7,500 people.
Why are student loan debts exceeding our nation's credit card debt?
Interactive map reveals the staggering amount of of human waste on San Francisco's...
Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge - 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public...
San Francisco Human Waste Reportings (2011-2019)
SBA Loans $1,000,000+ (2014-2018)
Adam Andrzejewski discusses our latest oversight report "The U.S. Department of Education"...
The recent cheating scandal in which wealthy and well-connected parents paid hundreds...
From seminaries to beauty schools, taxpayers are financing the schooling of millions...
The seething anger that Americans feel over the college admissions scandal with wealthy...
Since 2004, twenty large federal agencies admit paying out an astonishing $1.2 trillion...
Government transparency advocate Adam Andrzejewski said in an interview that aired...
We are urging the president to wage a nonpartisan war on waste.
In the wake of a startling oversight report from Open the Books showing massive federal...
Taxpayers have a right to know where government funds are going and to whom.
OpenTheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski talked about a new report on America’s...
Chowing down on $4.6 million worth of lobster tail and crab in the final month of...
In an annual spree to spend money during the last month of the fiscal year, the federal...
The federal government found a way to spend $97 billion in a single month last year,...
Federal agencies scramble to spend what’s left in their budgets, in fear that leaving...
Against the backdrop of a record-breaking $22 trillion in national debt, the revelation...
For federal agencies, Christmas comes in September. In the final month of the fiscal...
The Epoch Times sits down with Adam to talk about how his work brought about more...
Federal agencies billed taxpayers millions for lobster tail, alcohol, standing desks,...
What the shell? A federal agency spent $4.6 million on crab and lobster tails in...
It turns out September, not April, may be federal taxpayers’ worst nightmare.
In the final month of fiscal year 2018, the federal government spent $97 billion...
Wyoming State Checkbooks (2013-2018)
When newly elected Wyoming State Auditor Kristi Racines produced six full years of...
Why does the IRS need five million rounds of ammunition? Why did Health and Human...
Wyoming's state auditor has provided all state spending records that two government...
New State Auditor Kristi Racines Embraces The Transparency Revolution: American Transparency...
The War on Waste is an initiative of OpenTheBooks (a project of American Transparency)...
With the race for 2020 heating up, what issues mean the most for Americans? We believe...
OpenTheBooks Oversight Study: Both parties have adopted a mantra of protecting federal...
OpenTheBooks Oversight Study: Federal employees are back on the job after the government...
More than 130 of the country's leaders join us in urging the president to make the...
Wyoming’s state auditor is failing to provide records of payments to state vendors...
Wyoming has consistently scored low in transparency. Now the books are finally being...
OpenTheBooks Oversight Study: Who are the most highly compensated public employees...
The NCAA College Football National Championship semifinal games will soon kick off.
OpenTheBooks Oversight Study: The NCAA College Football National Championship semifinal...
OpenTheBooks Oversight Study: These city plumbers are flush with overtime cash. Of...
The newest members of the New York City millionaire class aren’t television stars,...
For the first time in history, 19 million public employee salaries at every level...
Newly captured data posted by our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com shows 14,820 city...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Deputy Chief Jeffrey Horan is currently the highest earner of Chicago...
In 1930, the first full year of the Great Depression, baseball great Babe Ruth wanted...
America’s pending pension disasters.
Recently, Fox affiliate Channel 32 and Open the Books detailed the exorbitant pay...
WASHINGTON - At the end of every fiscal year, a spending spree of billions of federal...
WASHINGTON — At the end of every fiscal year, a spending spree of billions of federal...
A joint investigation between FOX 32 and Open The Books uncovered another Illinois...
What should be the arts policy of the new administration headed by the incoming Democratic...
CHEYENNE – Wyoming has a reputation for its lack of government transparency.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has quietly solicited millions of dollars in campaign...
President Donald Trump last year announced a “war on waste” in the federal government....
Let us introduce you to the Illinois $100,000 Club that cost taxpayers $12 billion....
"Eliminating waste takes an extraordinary force of will. Targeting agencies demonstrates...
Recently, President Donald Trump declared war on federal waste. The president pledged...
"We're going to cut spending, absolutely. It's not as tough as you think, there's...
We mapped the exclusive club of 30,000 Illinois educators with either salaries or...
We have a new special report in our investigation of the super-sized salaries of...
A tiny suburban school has about 100 students, but the superintendent is pulling...
A Chicago TV news crew dropped by a Calumet City School District 155 board meeting...
Taxpayers in Illinois are used to getting shaved. But you probably didn't realize...
In a story we brought you first in a FOX 32 special report, the superintendent of...
In the last weeks before November’s crucial election, President Trump should make...
Controversy surrounds highest paid Illinois school superintendent before his retirement...
"Dollars must start following the child, not the bureaucracy."
He's already the highest paid school superintendent in the state of Illinois.
"As commander in chief, President Donald Trump can lead the ‘War on Waste.' We are...
America needs a War on Waste. As seen in the Wall Street Journal, we've outlined...
The Pentagon is expected to spend more than $111 billion in three months as it rushes...
Federal agencies spent millions on cars, scooters, fidget spinners, and shuffleboards...
"If the swamp seems to be draining slowly, that’s because Congress hasn’t removed...
In a few weeks, members of Congress will face voters who ought to be in a better...
Former U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn (Okla.) and Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder...
Congress is making some progress on spending bills for fiscal year 2019, which starts...
Is it legal in Oregon to use public funds for a political purpose? Not according...
"By campaigning under the guise of 'official' business, Governor Kate Brown is keeping...
According to Oregon law, public funds cannot be used for a political purpose. Yet,...
A movie star is more likely than a cowboy to stroll down Beverly Hills’ famed Rodeo...
Republicans need to regain the offensive on the fiscal issues. The GOP has somehow...
President Donald Trump announced he’s not granting the usual 2.1 percent pay hike...
Senators Seek Answers from High-Spending Federal Agencies on ‘Use It or Lose It’...
Adam Andrzejewski (pronounced Angie-eff-ski) just can't resist playing the role of...
You’d think putting together a new farm bill would be fairly easy. After all, Congress...
"We appreciate the scrutiny the [Forbes] article brought to us and caused us to look...
During calendar year 2017, the second largest school district in Wyoming, the Natrona...
Wyoming School District, Natrona County SD in Casper, Spends $10 Million on Credit...
Funding federal pensions are a problem for taxpayers.
Federal Farm Subsidies, Benefits, Loans $1M+ (2008-2017)
Farm Subsidies, Benefits, Loans $100k+ (2017)
In fiscal year 2017, the federal government doled out $13.2 billion in farm subsidies...
Who received $1 million+ in federal farm subsidies in your ZIP code?
During the Great Depression, farm subsidies were created to keep the family farm...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of Chicagoans are cashing in on federal farm subsidy programs...
Over a three-year period, nearly $8 million in federal farm subsidies flowed to recipients...
Hundreds of Chicagoans are cashing in on federal farm subsidy programs originally...
"Today, farm subsidies have grown so lucrative that wealthy investors, large corporations,...
This summer, the U.S. House and Senate each passed respective versions of a new farm...
"It isn't a swamp, it's an ocean." - Investor's Business Daily Editorial Board (December...
"Florida was ranked the number one fiscally responsible state in 2017, but perhaps...
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found 7,327 Texas public school administrators,...
CHEYENNE – Tired of waiting for the Wyoming auditor to produce state spending records,...
"Illinois citizens are tired of taxpayer abuse, golden parachutes, and huge payouts...
The retiring executive director of the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI),...
Texas Educator Salaries $100K+ (2017)
"In the absence of a pay cap for Texas educators, unwarranted pay for superintendents,...
"Trump should use every tool at his disposal – from Twitter to rescissions – to change...
While the nation was distracted by the political theater around immigration before...
Over $20 million in taxpayer funds could be saved at the end of President Donald...
"Trump’s White House payroll has been a leading indicator of his commitment to 'do...
President Trump’s White House payroll has 374 employees, that's 95 fewer staffers...
You can't educate children in the classroom when you're funding an expensive education...
Operation Drain the Swamp by Adam Andrzejewski
They’ve paid thousands in fees and waited for months, but two transparency advocacy...
"Just what is hidden inside the Wyoming state checkbook? We are fighting for a speedy...
On February 18, 2018, State Auditor Cynthia Cloud made us refile our open records...
City dwellers, wealthy celebrities, and the deceased all cash in on ag subsidies.
In Illinois, the pension palace is one part of the housing bubble that never burst....
Wyoming receives an “F” in transparency from the Center for Public Integrity in Washington,...
"Illinois teachers are starting their three-month summer break. But when it comes...
The city's generous payroll and benefits system continues to draw fire for exorbitant...
I have read with interest and reflection the opinion pieces and other letters to...
A killer whale sightseeing expedition in Canada; hundreds of expensive car washes;...
"Oregon Governor Kate Brown used public funds for a private purpose during her time...
The governor is flaunting Oregon open records laws and blurring the line between...
"The open-government movement is revolutionizing United States public policy."
Congressional leaders from both parties assure their colleagues there’s nowhere to...
"Just how much federal waste, duplication and weird or unnecessary spending are your...
The ever-rising federal debt just surpassed $21 trillion last month – at least $65,000...
Adam Andrzejewski at the City Club of Chicago
As a self-appointed fiscal watchdog who keeps track of how the government spends...
The state of Illinois sees some of the largest pension payouts in the nation, which...
"Nobody knows how to game the system for personal gain like an Illinois lawmaker...
Nobody knows how to game the system for personal gain like an Illinois lawmaker....
Nobody knows how to game the system for personal gain like an Illinois lawmaker.
When Gretchen Virlee-Wagner, an assistant training officer with the Ann Arbor Fire...
"Maybe increased funding from congress would help the IRS keep its website running...
Uncle Sam's top tech team choked on game day.
"What's the matter with Illinois higher education? While enrollments trended downward,...
There’s something wrong with Illinois higher education.
Our Illinois investigation revealed 63,000 six-figure public employees costing taxpayers...
As politicians point fingers, it’s important to ask how they're doing with their...
It’s Equal Pay Day – an opportunity for activists to raise awareness about the perceived...
WSJ Letter to the Editor - April 5, 2018
Every time there’s a threat of a government shutdown, a threat once rare but now...
Think about that. On average each of the largest 100 companies in the world receives...
Federal Employee Salaries and Bonuses (2017)
Should performance bonuses handed out to federal employees be public information?...
“Shining a light on federal performance bonuses is the next phase of the transparency...
Lakewood organizations receive less federal grant assistance than other big cities...
President Trump wants to make the federal bureaucracy a meritocracy. He has proposed...
Republican leadership is going to fund sanctuary cities in the must-pass spending...
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has left the bureau under a cloud, but for him...
Lawmakers are questioning the Office of Personnel Management on why it has not revealed...
Sunshine isn't just a week – it's our right. It's time citizens demand it.
It’s national Sunshine Week across America, sponsored by the American Society of...
Congressman Trey Gowdy wants to know why federal employee salary information is suddenly...
The government’s personnel agency is hiding information about federal employees’...
144 employees at local units of government made more than $190,000 and out-earned...
Today, our public servants have figured out how to serve themselves, gaming the system...
"With its newly minted excuses, the bureaucracy itself is trying to fight back against...
The government is keeping the salary information of more than 250,000 employees secret,...
Why is the U.S. government withholding salary information on nearly 255,000 employees...
Adam Andrzejewski explains why WY State Auditor Cynthia Cloud rejected our request...
What's the Matter with Federal Salary Redactions?
"The administrative state was designed to resist reform. Without a constant effort,...
The only thing the bureaucratic resistance hates more than President Trump is the...
When we opened the books on Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's lobbying disclosures, we found...
CHEYENNE – Legal action could be coming against the state of Wyoming as transparency...
Forget about our near-trillion-dollar annual budget deficits and our $20 trillion...
It took the Oregon Government Ethics Commission roughly 24 hours to vet and reject...
Has Oregon Gov. Kate Brown filed false lobbying disclosure reports for the past seven...
"Earmarking is the surest way for Republicans to infuriate voters and get thrown...
"It Isn't a Swamp, It's an Ocean." Investor's Business Daily
On January 21, 2018, OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzjewski spoke with a gathering of...
Adam Andrezejewski from Open The Books stopped by the Steve Cochran Show to discuss...
"What will you find in your own backyard?" Every taxpayer in America can search the...
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski on Fox & Friends to discuss our oversight report...
Tens of thousands of federal employees earn more money than any U.S. governor.
Throughout Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, he promised to “drain the swamp” and to...
Every taxpayer in America can search the $136 billion federal payroll by zip code. When...
OpenTheBooks.com CEO and Founder Adam Andrzejewski on After The Bell with David Asman...
“It’s hard, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here...
The federal government has become one of the most generous employers ever.
The U.S. Government doled out $1.5 billion in recruitment, retention, incentive,...
Mapping the Swamp, A Study of the Administrative State
The folks at Open The Books decided to take a deep dive into the salaries of 1.97...
Bureaucracy: President Trump's reigning metaphor of "draining the swamp" is very...
Adam Andrzejewski on the Laura Ingraham Show
Paying our federal workforce costs taxpayers $1.1M per minute, according to Open...
"We found small and large agencies across the federal government gaming the system...
We mapped the money at OpenTheBooks.com (FY2016). Search the 1.97 million federal...
A Study of the Administrative State (FY2016)
What do you do if you wind up with a little extra money in your household budget...
"This is exactly why people are so upset. It's another reason why your property taxes...
Local tax dollars should not be spent on valet parking.
Our non-partisan, nonprofit organization at OpenTheBooks.com recently filed open...
"The taxpayer gravy train needs to end. Congressional attention on the Ivy League...
Who knew? The Ivy League gamed-the-system for $42 billion in U.S. taxpayer funded...
Congress plans to bring transparency to allegedly inappropriate taxpayer-funded settlement...
Given the choice of obeying the law or not, too many public officials choose to try...
Often times, politicians talk about a “war on women” in an effort to score political...
"When it comes to the 'war on women,' many politicians are hypocrites!"
When it comes to the “war on women,” many politicians are hypocrites.
Adam Andrzejewski, the CEO & Founder of OpenTheBooks.com, presents the lunch lecture...
A new report found that Rahm Emanuel's Chicago is one of the worst cities when it...
Politicians rush to condemn gun ownership by private citizens.
America’s elite private colleges would rather talk about anything other than their...
Nearly all of top Chicago salaries went to men in Emanuel's fifth year as mayor
Politicians on all sides insist that we can’t have those big “beautiful” tax cuts...
Taxpayer watchdog Adam Andrzejewski's ride on a tidal wave of tax money continues...
We hear about the gender gap in private companies all the time, but our report shows...
We released a study of highly compensated public employees that reveals a disparity...
It’s still a man’s world in New York City government when it comes to getting paid...
Gender Study of Highly Compensated Public Employees.
We found that top-paid men outnumbered women two to one at the federal level.
Salaries for 123 executive agencies of the federal government.
New York City Employees Retirement System
Alabama State Checkbook
Alaska State Checkbook
Salaries for the White House
Arizona State Checkbook
Salaries for the United States Postal Service
Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund
Arkansas State Checkbook
After grabbing legal power, the feds are amassing firepower.
Updated figures on guns and ammunition purchased by the Internal Revenue Service,...
City of Detroit
California State Checkbook
San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System
Colorado State Checkbook
Salaries for the Supreme Court of the United States
Los Angeles County Schools
Connecticut State Checkbook
Salaries for the United States House of Representatives
Delaware State Checkbook
Salaries for the United States Senate
The inmates are running the asylum.
New York City Board of Education Retirement System
Salaries for the Top 10 Cities
San Diego County Schools
Salaries for the Top 100 Cities
Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System
Salaries for the Top 500 Cities
Salaries for New York City
Detroit Public Schools
Overtime pay more than doubled the number of city employees earning six figures last...
United Federation of Teachers chief Mike Mulgrew reportedly is crowing that almost...
Salaries for the City of Los Angeles
25% of muni workers hit $100G pay jackpot.
They say if you can make it in New York City, you can make it anywhere. But for government...
“New York City can be a hub of opportunity, and not just for aspiring Broadway stars.
Salaries for the City of Chicago, IL
Salaries for the City of Houston
Municipal Employees' and Benefit Fund of Chicago
Florida State Checkbook
Salaries for the City of Phoenix
Teacher's Retirement System of the City of New York
Salaries for the City of Philadelphia
Salaries for the City of San Antonio
Los Angeles Unified School District
Salaries for the City of San Diego
State of California
Salaries for the City of Dallas
Salaries for the City of San Jose
The end of the fiscal year just doesn't look like one big party. It is one big party.
The end of the fiscal year doesn't just look like one big party – it is one big party....
Georgia State Checkbook
Hawaii State Checkbook
Idaho State Checkbook
Illinois State Checkbook
Brian Lamb's inquiries dug into our OpenTheBooks' mission, vision, data capture and...
Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com, speaks with CSPAN founder Brian Lamb...
OpenTheBooks CEO & Founder on C-SPAN Q&A with Brian Lamb. Segment aired on September...
Brian Lamb's questions dig into our OpenTheBooks' mission, vision, data capture and...
Indiana State Checkbook
Weapons typically reserved for war-time use will start flowing to local law enforcement...
Weapons typically reserved for war-time use – tracked armored (tank-like) vehicles,...
Iowa State Checkbook
Kansas State Checkbook
Kentucky State Checkbook
The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) has mastered a new craft: How to hand out...
Adam Andrzejewski discusses the Illinois government’s gender hiring gap.
Open The Books Founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski joined Steve Cochran in the WGN...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s overtime costs are out of control, according to a budget...
Chicago is in trouble and continues to flirt with junk bond status.
OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski explains how Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has mismanaged...
Louisiana State Checkbook
While Chicago endures murders and flirts with insolvency, Mayor Rahm Emanuel builds...
Maine State Checkbook
A list of Alabama State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
A list of Alaska State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Illinois is broke and continues to flirt with junk bond status.
Illinois is broke and continues to flirt with junk bond status. But the state’s financial...
A few eyebrows were raised regarding Mike McCoy’s hiring as police chief in Washington...
Maryland State Checkbook
A list of Arizona State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Massachusetts State Checkbook
A list of Arkansas State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
U.S. taxpayers have paid $90,000 for a theater “performance” in which people commune...
The U.S. government pays employees a total of about $1 million per minute, according...
Universities receive hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of dollars to...
OpenTheBooks released an oversight report on all grant-making in 2016 at the National...
Cactus dances, Christopher Columbus assassination plays receive taxpayer funding.
Great 'Your World w/ Neil Cavuto' FOX segment on our OpenTheBooks.com investigation...
Our CEO Adam Andrzejewski went on One America News to discuss our latest investigation...
Rep. Ron DeSantis told TMN Wednesday that today he will formally introduce legislation...
A $10,000 grant for theater ‘celebrating the saguaro cactus’? The National Endowment...
Open the Books report comes amid Trump’s targeting arts funding
"The investigative work of OpenTheBooks has fomented a revolution in fiscal transparency." Wall...
The rich nonprofits tend to get richer, and financial need seems to play little role...
Michigan State Checkbook
A list of California State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities (NFA-H) is the umbrella organization...
Chart National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
Minnesota State Checkbook
A list of Colorado State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
The Trump White House’s report on staff salaries, which was released Friday, reflects...
President Trump could save tax payers as much as $22 million from working with a...
"If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president's commitment...
Under President Trump, cuts to the White House payroll could reportedly save taxpayers...
President Donald Trump ran for office saying that the federal government spends too...
MAKE FEDERAL PENSIONS TRANSPARENT By Rep. Ron DeSantis & Adam Andrzejewski
Mississippi State Checkbook
A list of Connecticut State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Every year, the federal government pays $125 billion in tax dollars for federal pensions....
OpenTheBooks Presents: The Case for Federal Pension Transparency
Missouri State Checkbook
A list of Delaware State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Called out the 15 Illinois 'income-tax-hiking' House Republicans on the national...
Our OpenTheBooks.com investigation of the Julius Caesar Parent Company - The New...
Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO OpenTheBooks.com, talks about how his database...
“President Donald Trump look alike brutally stabbed and murdered in a modern interpretation...
New York City’s Public Theater has received nearly $30 million in federal, state,...
New York Public Theater's controversial production of Julius Caesar received a standing...
New York City’s Public Theater ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ production of Julius Caesar...
JULIUS CAESAR'S PARENT - THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL GIVEN $30 MILLION IN TAXPAYER...
Montana State Checkbook
A list of Florida State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Oregon State Senator Mark Hass wants to tax the small businesses and entrepreneurs...
Nebraska State Checkbook
A list of Georgia State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Washington, D.C. is known for its monuments, but it is also known for its “ivory...
Did Brookings lose its integrity as a think tank when government became a $20 Million...
Did Brookings lose its integrity when government became its $20 million donor?
With the House Judiciary Committee’s approval of House of Representatives Bill 2431...
Nevada State Checkbook
A list of Idaho State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
A list of Illinois State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
"Oregonians deserve a safe space from government manipulation, propaganda and bloated...
New Hampshire State Checkbook
A list of Indiana State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Oregonians deserve a safe space from government manipulation, propaganda and bloated...
New Jersey State Checkbook
A list of Iowa State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
New Mexico State Checkbook
A list of Kansas State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Attempting to plumb the depths of our contemporary academic follies is a bit like...
The Edgar County Watchdogs recently joined more than a dozen other citizens and groups...
America’s wealthiest universities appear intent on protecting tax breaks for their...
New York State Checkbook
A list of Kentucky State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Auditor General William Holland was in charge of scrutinizing public pocketbooks,...
Penn spends over a million dollars each year trying to influence legislation on the...
North Carolina State Checkbook
A list of Louisiana State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
The state's fiscal problems are still in search of a solution.
A growing number of law enforcement agencies are using surplus military gear.
"Sanctuary cities" are scrambling to assess what they stand to lose if the Trump...
"... a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public...
A study by the fiscal transparency advocate Open The Books released an eye-opening...
Manhattan Institute | April 18, 2017 | New York City Speaker: Adam Andrzejewski,...
North Dakota State Checkbook
A list of Maine State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Ivy League schools have benefited from taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and federal...
Our report details how Ivy Leagues pulled down a total of $41.59 billion from 2010...
Our report sheds light on enormous sums of money the federal government provides...
Ohio State Checkbook
A list of Maryland State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
RICH SCHOOLS GETTING RICHER.
Oklahoma State Checkbook
A list of Massachusetts State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Why taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars in government aid to Ivy League...
Adam Andrzejewski gives insight on the Ivy League financial scorecards.
New Jersey lawmakers just don’t get it: The state’s massive pension-fund shortfalls...
A nonprofit government watchdog group has determined that the nation’s eight Ivy...
According to a new report, Ivy League schools received $41 billion from the government...
Open the Books is back in the spotlight today with another deep-dive report, this...
INVESTIGATING IVY LEAGUE, INC. "The taxpayer gravy train needs to end..." $41 Billion...
A new report reveals that Ivy League universities are raking in billions in tax breaks...
On March 29, 2017, Special Report with Bret Baier showcased our OpenTheBooks.com...
America's Ivy League colleges have received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer...
America's Ivy League colleges received more than $26 billion in federal contracts...
Over a 6-year period, Ivy League schools have received tens of billions in tax dollars.
U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks and Federal Payments Into the Ivy League Colleges,...
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a warning to sanctuary cities that...
Oregon State Checkbook
A list of Michigan State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
EFFINGHAM — Adam Andrzejewski believes that in order to make America great again,...
Six nonprofit groups that criticized President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts...
Pennsylvania State Checkbook
A list of Minnesota State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
One America News Network with Open The Books.
CHICAGO — Cook County leads the state in the highest-paid government workers, according...
What's retired IRS chief Lois Lerner's pension? No one, besides Lerner, knows. We...
The American people deserve to see the granular details of who's receiving what,...
Rhode Island State Checkbook
What has a $3.5 trillion unfunded liability, manually calculated on paper inside...
A list of Mississippi State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Travis County could lose tens of millions of dollars in public funds if Texas lawmakers...
One of the clear results of November’s elections and their aftermath is that many...
Many citizens have a profound mistrust of the institutions that govern their lives.
Recently the BND highlighted the O’Fallon Township High School “financial crisis”...
While city leaders in Hartford and New Haven say they are proud of their sanctuary...
States with cities that hold onto their "sanctuary" status for illegal immigrants...
South Carolina State Checkbook
A list of Missouri State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
The bills are stacking up as tuition costs surge. "It sucks," said USF senior...
Former EPA head Gina McCarthy clanged alarm bells Thursday over the Trump administration’s...
Hugh Hewitt hosts Adam Andrzejewski, Founder & CEO of OpenTheBooks. A national interview...
Last night, President Trump spoke to a joint session of congress about his strategic...
South Dakota State Checkbook
A list of Montana State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Broadcasting across the country to millions of listeners, Hugh Hewitt hosts Adam...
If President Donald Trump and Congress decide to withhold federal funds from states...
A recent comment by Mayor Kenney's spokeswoman sums up the commitment and compassion...
Before Donald Trump became president, Americans did not hear the phrase “Sanctuary...
Tennessee State Checkbook
A list of Nebraska State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and her husband stayed in a hotel and casino on the taxpayers’...
Oregon’s governor received a donation from the president of a company that raked...
Adam Andrzejewski, the founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, joined Breitbart News...
Over 200 state contractors funded the political careers of Governor Kate Brown and...
SALEM — Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, said Monday he plans to introduce legislation...
Texas State Checkbook
A list of Nevada State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, plans to introduce legislation restricting so-called...
As the state contemplates an income tax hike, Oregon’s elites line their pockets...
Rep. Knute Buehler proposed the law change the same day Forbes Magazine reported...
WHEELING — Could Wheeling be going the way of Los Angeles? One local group hopes...
Declaring that your city, county or state is a sanctuary from the enforcement of...
Donald Trump kickstarted his presidential campaign by asserting that Mexico is sending...
Trump's threat to cut off federal funding for sanctuary cities could cost their taxpayers...
Several towns, cities and counties around the nation are caving to President Trump's...
Here is a simple question for public officials in so-called “sanctuary cities.” If...
On January 25, 2017, President Trump followed up on his campaign promises to fight...
In a letter to Washington Governor Jay Inslee, 20 civil rights groups say they will...
Some Senate members cannot figure out how to pay for the border wall that the administration...
Utah State Checkbook
A list of New Hampshire State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
The scandal involving the football program at Baylor University seems to add a new...
The federal government spends more every year funding sanctuary cities than it would...
$27 billion into America's 106 Sanctuary Cities is at stake.
In the President Donald Trump-era, there could be a high-cost to running a sanctuary...
President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order putting sanctuary cities in the...
Donald Trump promised that one of his first acts as president would be to address...
On January 25, 2017, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order: Enhancing...
President Donald Trump could withhold nearly $27 billion from sanctuary cities as...
More than 100 sanctuary cities across America received a total of $27 billion in...
American taxpayers pay $27 billion to "sanctuary cities," money that President Trump...
Sanctuary cities receive over $27 billion each year from the federal government,...
Mayors defending their sanctuary city status by refusing to comply with federal law...
Vermont State Checkbook
A list of New Jersey State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Virginia State Checkbook
A list of New Mexico State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Washington State Checkbook
It's disgraceful that we're still debating how to fix the dysfunctional Department...
A list of New York State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities (2016)
A list of North Dakota State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
West Virginia State Checkbook
A list of North Carolina State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
As inauguration approaches, I've wondered how our 45th President can possibly cut...
The Edgar County Watchdogs recently revealed in Illinois Leaks that the city of Sullivan...
I was taken aback by the article that appeared in The News-Gazette on Sunday, Dec....
Wisconsin State Checkbook
Port Authority commissioner James Rubin was frustrated. Appointed to the bistate...
It may not be easy for President-elect Donald Trump to cut egregious spending across...
Wyoming State Checkbook
A list of Ohio State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Feeling all warm and fuzzy after a festive weekend with the family? Well, it’s time...
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of – EPA? If sending Marines, Navy Seals,...
Can't You Just Feel the Excitement?
La Salle County State's Attorney Karen Donnelly, who promised during her campaign...
A list of Oklahoma State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
One way to encourage economic growth is to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on activities...
Our Advice to Donald J. Trump
American taxpayers poured some $14 billion in low-interest loans into hedge funds...
Ohio’s conservative State Treasurer Josh Mandel recently announced that he is running...
Everything from public service announcements about the Zika virus to the dangers...
CalPERS has really screwed up these investments the past couple of years, and we...
A list of Oregon State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Today, RealClear Investigations, reporter James Varney, launches new oversight of...
by TeleSurTV Nonmilitary federal agencies have spent almost US$1.5 billion on guns,...
President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Scott Pruitt as next administrator of...
Earlier this spring, at OpenTheBooks.com, we identified more than 50,000 Illinois...
Between 2011 and 2014, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs spent $1.9 million on...
Inside The Terrible, No Good Mess Of The Port Authority Police
A list of Pennsylvania State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Fifteen years after terrorists struck the Port Authority-owned World Trade Center,...
Money, Power, Politics Show by Craig Patrick aired a four minute segment on our oversight...
Scandal continues to plague the Port Authority, the bi-state agency that is supposed...
Scandal continues to plague the Port Authority.
A list of Rhode Island State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
One of the few politicians to get the Battle of Ohio State right was Ohio’s Republican...
OH TREASURER JOSH MANDEL AND OPENTHEBOOKS PRESENT: OHIOCHECKBOOK APP
Reigniting a perpetually smoldering debate with nationwide implications, the California...
Last year Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo made national news by becoming...
For the first time, the financial books at all levels of government in Ohio are accessible...
A list of South Carolina State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
A list of South Dakota State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Any Republican attempt to replace the Affordable Care Act must address Medicaid,...
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel announced today a national transparency partnership with...
21,862 Highly-Compensated, Retired California Public
The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) is the USA’s largest pension...
Let’s take Donald Trump at his word that he means to “drain the swamp” in Washington,...
A list of Tennessee State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Evangelist Franklin Graham is hailing the political defeat of an Oregon official...
Open the Books is back with another important government transparency report. This...
California’s liberals are infamous for railing against the top 1 percent and the...
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Local lenders are ratcheting up a focus on SBA loans — particularly the 504 loan...
220,000 highly-compensated California public employees make over $100,000 per year...
Whenever we open the books, California is consistently among the worst offenders.
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Boeing offered congratulations to Donald Trump but declined to discuss major issues...
A list of Utah State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Four days before election day, Edwardsville area veterinarian Mike Firsching issued...
U.S. government spending on public relations campaigns, including NASA’s Green Ninja...
SALEM — In 2003, Brad Avakian and Dennis Richardson came to the state House as freshmen...
A list of Vermont State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
In 2003, Brad Avakian and Dennis Richardson came to the state House as freshmen lawmakers.
In 2003, Brad Avakian and Dennis Richardson came to the state House as freshmen lawmakers....
In 2003, Brad Avakian and Dennis Richardson came to the state House as freshmen lawmakers. Thirteen...
In the Oct. 30 "In My Opinion" column titled "In Oregon, the battle against transparency...
The supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump have one thing in common:...
A story posted at Forbes.com today claims that Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian has...
Oregon and its arrogant one-party rule by Democrats has once again drawn negative...
A list of Virginia State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Brad Avakian’s campaign denied wrongdoing following accusations made Monday that...
Did staffers for Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian volunteer for Avakian's campaign...
Today at Forbes, Adam Andrzejewski highlights our oversight research of "Mr. Regulator,"...
A powerful state commissioner acts as if rules are only for other people.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter and her staff traveled around the world...
Salaries for the Tennessee Valley Authority
Military and homeland security spending has been at the top of federal government...
As of 2014, the eight Ivy League schools had 58,982 undergraduate students and total...
A list of Washington State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Ivy League colleges hold $2 million per student in endowment funds, yet soak up $30...
In today's Wall Street Journal, James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley highlighted...
Donald Trump criticized universities last month for hoarding their endowments, saying...
The federal government is spending an average of at least $1.5 billion a year on...
A list of West Virginia State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
The U.S. government spends $1.5 billion annually on public relations and advertising...
Last year, federal spending of $15 BILLION on 'Public Relations' included $500 million...
VA Palo Alto Health Care System officials are pushing back against critics who call...
The start of the fall season marks the beginning of a spending spree in Washington,...
A list of Wisconsin State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Last month, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the Department of Veterans Affairs why they...
A list of Wyoming State Employees salaries by year, agency and employee.
Over the past two months, we've challenged the VA over their $20 million in high-end...
Salaries for 122 executive agencies for the federal government.
More than 70,000 vendors are owed $8.2 billion.
Another long, hot summer at U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the history books without...
David W. Cooke would like to talk, but he can't. "I need to keep my attorney," he...
Salaries for the United States Internal Revenue Service
Cheers to a decision that keeps on track the $177 million needed for a passenger...
Salaries for the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Small Business Administration spent $18 billion over 15 years on taxpayer-financed...
The state elections board this week rejected former state Rep. Frank Mautino's request...
When French Cubist George Braque famously said that “art is a wound turned into light,”...
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A new report has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent $20 million...
Despite President Obama's much-touted 2015 executive order, an In These Times investigation...
The VA Palo Alto Health Care System and other federal facilities for veterans are...
Small businesses are America’s backbone. They employ more than half of America’s...
Taxpayers in Elgin Area School District U-46 paid almost $1.9 million to nine different...
On Wednesday, the House Veterans Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to the Department...
A decade after the advent of Netflix and well into the Internet age, one lender was...
WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs took action Wednesday to force...
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs voted to subpoena the Department of Veterans...
The mission of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is to provide lending...
SBA Charge-Off Loans (2000-2015)
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) must give Congress information on all art...
Playing the 'Big Six Wheel' in Las Vegas has better odds than large tranches of the...
By harvesting the sun's rays and converting them into electricity, solar panels can...
In Illinois, the politically connected are paid first. The folks with real needs...
Adam Andrzejewski works for openthebooks.com. He’s asking for public employee and...
Officials with Chillicothe's VA Medical Center are defending a 2011 purchase of a...
What do a $1.2 million decorative rock in Palo Alto, a $185,000 pile of thread balls...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials improperly withheld information from...
Your government is on red alert: between 2006 and 2014, the Animal and Plant Health...
The number of non-military federal agency personnel authorized to make arrests and...
A Republican congressman and two veterans groups slammed the Department of Veterans...
There is perhaps no better example of waste in the scandalous Veterans Administration...
Several weeks ago, ABC News broke a story about VA’s extravagant spending on artwork...
The SBA is costly for taxpayers, and — even worse — it creates a painful human cost...
America is in trouble. I came across three items this week which illustrate that...
The U.S. government has kept the recipients of $25 million in legal fees stemming...
The VA's $1.2 million 'Cubed-Rock' Sculpture is NOT an example of "creating a healing...
Groups concealed by the government have raked in $25 million in legal fees from federal...
Concern about IRS spending on weapons and ammunition has been a “thing” of late....
If you’re concerned about the back support on your desk chair, you might want to...
Lack of transparency in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) means it’s just as...
Oregon taxpayers deserve to see every dime spent at every level of government — federal,...
A new report from the Detroit Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general (IG)...
DANVILLE — As criticism swirls around the Department of Veterans Affairs for spending...
Chalk up another one for the scandal-ridden Veterans Affairs Administration. Veterans...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the Department of Veterans Affairs why it has...
An army of 167 interior designers work at the Department of Veterans Affairs, picking...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent more than $408 million to install solar...
OpenTheBooks.com CEO Adam Andrzejewski on FOX and Friends this morning discussing...
Veterans Affairs hospitals across the nation have been plagued in recent years by...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today asked the Department of Veterans Affairs why it...
Obama’s Brown Shirts I knew that the article I wrote on gun control would generate...
It’s come to light via a watchdog organization called Open the Books that the Veterans...
"No one tells the veterans' story better than a veteran. Veterans themselves should...
OpenTheBooks is calling on the Veterans Affairs Administration to showcase work by...
Despite a fierce battle by many fiscal conservatives and some anti-corporate liberals...
"We cannot privatize and outsource healthcare for America's veterans," President...
President Obama, in an amazing display of self-adulation, gave a lengthy speech to...
Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee Jeff Miller (R., Fla.) is threatening...
The founder of the government spending watchdog Open the Books told SiriusXM host...
Looking to take in some breathtaking works of art? Thinking you will have to travel...
When the evening newscasts wrapped up on Monday night, ABC was still the only network...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has amassed a luxurious and costly art collection...
When I read this kind of stuff, I get why people are attracted to a non-politician...
Decatur – The Veterans Administration has been engaged in some artful spending over...
As long waiting times and bureaucratic inertia left veterans unable to get medical...
An amendment offered by Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) would have eliminated wasteful...
When we think of the term war crimes, the mental imagery is often of horrific acts...
Has President Obama improved healthcare for veterans?
They had no money, so the claim went. No money to man the suicide hotline, which...
A new government spending report by a non-profit organization states that the Department...
The federal Department of Veterans Affairs blew through at least $20 million during...
The VA's costly art collection. Report: $20 Million spent over past decade
A new report alleges that the Department of Veterans Affairs spent $20 million between...
ABC World News Tonight covers the OpenTheBooks.com oversight discovery regarding...
Decatur – High dollar art and the million-dollar rock.
In the now-infamous VA scandal of 2012-2015, the nation was appalled to learn that...
The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $20 million on expensive artwork between...
As thousands of U.S. military veterans have gone without health care while waiting...
The report, which focuses on the agency's expenditures from 2004-2014, has sparked...
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- An expansion continues at the Veterans Affairs Hospital...
WSOC channel 9 in Charlotte, NC captured the reactions of local veterans to the OpenTheBooks.com...
VA's purchase of $20 million on high-end art. Senator Mark Kirk from Illinois demands...
ABC News - Good Morning America covered our OpenTheBooks.com oversight findings that...
Channel 2 Action News broke the story of the department of Veteran's Affairs spending...
From 2012–2015, while 1,000 veterans died waiting for health care and numerous calls...
Open The Books & COX Media Washington, D.C. showcase: Of the $20 million spent, $16...
The Veterans Affairs administration doled out $20million over the past 10 years to...
VA Spends Millions on Artwork, Decorations
The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on artwork...
The Veterans Affairs administration spent $20 million on expensive artwork and sculptures...
A joint investigation with COX Media and OpenTheBooks.com found that the Department...
VA Continues Excessive Spending on High-End Art Despite Claims That Department Is...
A report has found the Veterans Affairs spent a wild $20 million on artwork in the...
The Department of Veterans Affairs spent millions of dollars on artwork and decorations...
Hundreds of veterans have died while waiting to get care from the Department of Veterans...
While veterans died; while suicide assistance calls went unanswered; while healthcare-claim...
The VA created 40,000 new positions, but hired only 3,600 doctors (2012-2015) – the...
Partnering with COX Media Washington, D.C. Bureau; ABC - affiliate WSB-Atlanta; and...
Forbes – Two years ago, Americans were horrified to learn that as many as 1,000 of...
OpenTheBooks.com found 4.4 billion federal dollars spent in PR spending for to promote...
Sculptures than cost more than five-bedroom homes? Christmas trees that are the...
Adam Andrzejewski addresses the 150 veterans, members of Herscher American Legion...
We found millions of dollars in VA spending on high-end artwork.
Today, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held hearings...
AMERICA’S GUN CULTURE has been a subject of intense interest and controversy for...
Dr. Tom Coburn, Honorary Chairman of OpenTheBooks.com and co-author of the Wall Street...
Analysis by OpenTheBooks.com estimates that the number of non-Department of Defense...
Across America, taxpayers are concerned about politicians rigging the system.
Using data from OpenTheBooks.com and our Militarization of America oversight report...
The Democrats' gun-control theatrics were on display last month in the House of Representatives...
In Missouri, it's legal for state vendors to fund the war chests of politicians. In...
FIREARMS AND MUNITIONS AT RISK: EXAMINING INADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS
A taxpayer watchdog group is calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to showcase...
Women’s sanitary pads purchased for the federal prison system and coded as body armor?...
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service doesn’t...
Non-Military Federal Agencies Purchases of Guns, Ammunition, and Military-Style Equipment...
In the race of his political life, the Republican is advocating a security platform...
The Department of Veterans Affairs bought more than $11 million worth of weapons,...
The federal government has spent $1.5 billion on guns and ammo since 2006, and lost...
After riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 following the fatal shooting...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The IRS is coming under fire for its stockpile of heavy weapons,...
The IRS tracks its Criminal Investigation division's inventory of equipment, including...
OpenTheBooks.com estimates that the number of border patrol, customs, and immigration...
The British vote to leave the European Union may just be the biggest shock to English...
Federal agencies other than the Department of Defense spent nearly $1.5 billion on...
Here we go again. Stuck in the aftermath of a horrific shooting and all politicians...
There are now more non-military government employees who carry guns than there are...
None of the agencies being armed and trained are considered military, so they can...
"Reading your editorial in the Wall Street Journal last week, raised questions...
In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, many Washington politicians tried...
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public relations official is blocking interviews...
Ronald Reagan once famously quipped that nine of the most terrifying words in the...
While I dismiss conspiracy theories that presume there’s a plan in Washington to...
Radley Balko blogs about criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The...
We all know that President Obama increases gun sales throughout the country every...
The number of armed non-military government employees now exceeds the number of U.S....
TOM Coburn left public office in early 2015. He has not left the public square, for...
It seems the Honorable Dr. Tom Coburn has given us a few more dots to connect. In...
Nonmilitary federal agencies have spent almost $1.5 billion on guns, ammunition,...
Dr. Tom Coburn, Honorary Chairman of OpenTheBooks.com is the guest on CNBC's Squawk...
Yeah, that is a very good question. It actually has an easy answer though. – It...
As gun ownership in the United States is a hot topic among many, a column in Friday’s...
The London Mills Village Board of Trustees closed the police department two months...
A Federal law enforcement officer stands outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse...
The tiny village of Lostant is not known as a haven for crime, but its police department...
Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human...
Why Does the IRS Need Guns? By Tom Coburn and Adam Andrzejewski, Wall Street Journal
The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service spent...
"Who are they [the feds] preparing to battle?"
A decade ago, when State Treasurer John Chiang was chair of the Board of Equalization,...
New numbers show that the 7,499 ‘highly compensated,’ six-figure school administrator/teacher...
A new study from a government watchdog group called Open the Books focuses on how...
A police lieutenant at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey retired in 2013...
In 2013, a police lieutenant at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey retired...
I’m still trying to figure out how exactly it happens. How do you give someone billions...
An interactive guide by OpenTheBooks gives veterans and their families quick access...
For Memorial Day, Adam Andrzejewski shares stories from his grandfather’s experiences...
Our World War II 'Boys of Fury' and The Prayer Behind the Barn
Because of the battlefield courage exhibited by my grandfather and his Army lieutenant...
RealClear Policy showcases our Forbes column, The VA Scandal Two Years Later
There is anger and disappointment ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, with the U.S....
He has since apologized for it (poorly) but the statement’s still out there. And...
A newly-released study of the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed the agency...
A newly released study hammered the Department of Veterans Affairs for spending a...
In Illinois politics, anything happens for the good of the people, it’s entirely...
Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of the always excellent Open the Books, has published...
The Department of Veterans Affairs created 40,000 new positions from 2012 to 2015,...
Government transparency group Open the Books launched an interactive map Wednesday...
During and after the VA wait-time scandal, the agency added nearly 40,000 positions...
Highland Park, Illinois, is an affluent north-Chicago suburban community of about...
$100k+ for 50,000 IL Public Employees Costs Taxpayers
What the facts made appear obvious has now been officially confirmed. Illinois...
Real Clear Policy Weekend
Real Clear Markets - 'Minimum Wage' of $100k for 50k Illinois Public Employees
'Minimum Wage' of $100,000+ for 50,000 Highly Compensated Illinois Public Employees...
This week, Governor Bruce Rauner (R) told the state public employee union AFSME,...
Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, gave a talk discussing his organization’s...
An Inspector General report revealed the U.S. State Department spent more than $600,000...
Despite public outcry, new federal data shows that 2014 and 2015 were peak years...
RealClearPolicy.com covers our report, The Militarization of America’s Police by...
OpenTheBooks, a watchdog group that monitors government spending activities, has...
The militarization of America's police has been a topic of concern for years (most...
Since 2006, the federal government has supplied local police departments across the...
New Data Shows Feds Transfer $2.2B in Military Gear
The Militarization of America’s Local Police Departments OpenTheBooks Snapshot Oversight...
“David, I can’t believe that you put your name on this poisonous bilge. Whatever...
The federal government employs 25,060 people under the job classification “general...
New Tool Maps The Unsustainable Illinois Pension System
Federal taxpayers spent $26.2 billion between 2007 and 2014 on more than 25,000 lawyers...
We are working hard to show you the vast size, scope and power of government. Today,...
OpenTheBooks Snapshot Oversight Report – Lawyered Up Federal Spending on Attorneys...
New counts show the number of federal lawyers now exceed the individual public payrolls...
A “pervasive army” of more than 25,000 federal lawyers have raked in $26.2 billion...
It has now been 90 days since the killing of LaVoy Finicum on a desolate Highway...
As we've known for quite some time now, Illinois is completely insolvent, and in...
In just six years, the problem of six-figure pensions will be three-times worse.
Two years ago, Americans were horrified to learn that as many as 1,000 of our nation’s...
During Newport Borough Council's April 5 meeting, Frank Campbell reported that the...
One year ago, on April 13, 2015, U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon empaneled a grand jury...
THE 'PENSION PALACE' FOR ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS
The magazine found that 72 of Illinois' small-town city and village managers earn...
New report spotlights the generous, pensionable salaries of Illinois city managers
At OpenTheBooks.com, we have completed our annual ‘Big Dogs’ salary report of municipal...
OPEN THE BOOKS ON THE CALIFORNIA STATE CHECKBOOK
It's national Sunshine Week across America. During this week, good-government groups...
PUBLIC SUNSHINE BADLY NEEDED ON FLORIDA PENSIONS
What has an estimated $22 billion unfunded taxpayer liability, pays out more than...
OPEN THE BOOKS ON FEDERAL PENSIONS
What has a three-quarter billion-dollar unfunded liability, is manually calculated...
California lawmakers this week called for more transparency in state government,...
The idealized view of government as dedicated public servants, working steadily and...
All they wanted to do is refine their agency’s messaging. A simple plan by the Substance...
Remember the Gold King mine spill in Colorado last August? Probably not. It was...
Even after the defeat of the socialist Bernie Sanders, the march toward socialism...
In the ongoing legal tussle between the world's most admired tech brand and the world's...
An average salary of more than a $100,000 a year can be found in the federal government.
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent mistakenly left a gun in a restroom...
In one of America’s most wealthy counties, DuPage County Clerk Paul Hinds is levying...
"We have taxpayer dollars being spent to convince taxpayers to spend more taxpayer...
Our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report found some of the worlds largest advertising firms...
Some government 'schemes' are perfectly legal - and that's the scandal. Other schemes...
Six obscure nonprofits funded almost entirely by federal taxpayers in an Environmental...
WASHINGTON — Taxpayers are footing the bill for billions of dollars of highly paid...
Probably not. It was big news at the time, with pictures of people kayaking in the...
Frank Mautino is off to a rocky start as Illinois auditor general. Not long after...
An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program spends hundreds of millions of tax...
When Frank Mautino, the state's new auditor general, walked into the Illinois House...
Illinois has a corruption crisis. The people deserve an Auditor General that has...
After Illinois Auditor General William Holland retired last fall, three years into...
WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS GOING ON AROUND HERE?
What do some top Myrtle Beach hotels, campgrounds, family entertainment venues, and...
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While the debate continues over the militarization of local police, federal data...
Do the 'zoo police' under the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC really need...
As the U.S. engages in a national debate over the militarization of the police, federal...
It’s been more than five months since the Colorado Gold King Mine spill turned rivers...
Less than12 percent of the people voted in the last election in St. Clair County....
White House Checkbook
It's fast becoming the rallying cry for aggressive financial transparency across...
Forbes study uses OpenTheBooks data
With the College of DuPage (COD) shrouded in controversy of late, the Illinois' delegation...
Our federal government is a master of self-promotion, comprising the second-largest...
"In the past 10 years, the EPA Office of Inspector General has not conducted any...
N.C. Alliance for Public Charter Schools advises members on avoiding a national request...
Open the Books is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization focused on providing transparency...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials gave $542 million to colleges and...
IT'S YOUR MONEY - PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL "To compel a man to subsidize with...
In 2013, then-U.S. Senator Tom Coburn criticized the then Hillary Clinton-led State...
Though President Barack Obama has said he created “the most transparent administration...
WASHINGTON: One nonprofit is criticizing the federal government’s use of external...
In a few days, the Observer will release the PR Power List, our annual ranking of...
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves...
"Federal agencies don't have a right to spend $4.34 billion of taxpayer money on...
The federal government has spent almost $4 billion on public relations services since...
The federal government for years has been using Americans’ tax dollars to pay for...
How Federal Agency PR Spending Advances Their Interests Rather Than the Public Interest
Recently, our organization, American Transparency, released a comprehensive oversight...
Spin, obfuscation, misinformation and opacity regarding the agencies expenditures...
In Illinois, and many states, it sometimes feels like if anything happens for the...
On Thanksgiving, there's Always a Reason to be Thankful - even if the reason is......
Few people realize just how massive and powerful the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Open the Books just released a comprehensive report on the EPA’s spending habits...
President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has doled out nearly $25...
The State Department spent nearly $36.5 million polling the attitudes of citizens...
"I don't want to pay for this. Have the government pay for it." Anonymous
Would you spend money to find out what people in Spain think about their medical...
Congressmen Dave Brat (R-Va.) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) introduced yesterday H.R....
A newly released audit of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Illinois-based...
Environmental Protection Agency officials require contractors to sign secrecy pledges...
Environmental Protection Agency officials awarded nearly $2.7 million in contract...
The last several months have been bad ones for the Environmental Protection Agency.
The La Salle County Board this week granted a $2,500 raise for the head of a veterans...
Guns and ammunition up to 300MM, offensive/defensive Radiated Electromagnetic systems,...
There are a myriad of problems facing this nation that demand clear visions and solutions....
Host Tucker Carlson and guest Erick Erickson (RedState) discuss our OpenTheBooks...
The federal government spending more than $1 million to arm the Environmental Protection...
In August, the EPA attempted to clean up the abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado....
A new wrinkle pops up in the long, strange tale of the management of the Environmental...
SBA loans are supposed to help mom-and-pop businesses grow. The taxpayer-backed loans...
If you want to find out how much a specific employee for the city of Ottawa makes,...
In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Adam Andrzejewski, founder of...
Even those of us who have worked in Washington for many years and become accustomed...
At OpenTheBooks.com, we have completed our annual "Big Dogs" salary report of IL...
Why does the EPA need a a $715 million police force, $170 million PR Machine, a nearly...
Why does the EPA need a $715 million police force, a $170 million PR Machine, a nearly...
Never under-estimate what a small group of commented citizens can do to bring reform!
La Salle County should look to McLean County's example for a way to save taxpayers'...
A congressional committee will investigate reports that the Environmental Protection...
Washington, DC - At a time when the National Debt is so obviously out of control,...
Why Does the EPA Need 198 Public Affairs Officers plus millions of dollars in outside...
BACK IN THE 1980s a man who sat on the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission...
Washington Free Beacon reporter Liz Harrington appeared on Fox Business’s Varney...
Last night, Special Report with Bret Baier showcased our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report...
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the FBI agents on Fox’s The X-Files, have been known...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent over $15 million on outside public...
The Environmental Protection Agency has spent millions of dollars over the last decade...
Why Does the EPA Need Guns, Ammo, and Armor to Protect the Environment?
A new report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s use of taxpayer money found...
With the rise of supposed outsider candidates, pundits are calling the coming presidential...
“Open the Books is doing the work I envisioned when the Coburn-Obama bill became...
The Environmental Protection Agency spent millions of dollars over the last decade...
In today's Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn (retired) recognizes...
Presidential hopefuls can’t flee from Washington nowadays. Truth be told, no political...
According to The Washington Times, the EPA has spent $ 94.2 million over the last...
The Environmental Protection Agency spent $92.4 million on purchasing, leasing, renting,...
Bill O'Reilly's - The Factor - covers our exposure of $92.4 million spent by EPA...
The EPA spent $92.4 million on mostly upscale furniture purchases and now they're...
Confronted with our data analysis and hard questions from the Washington Times, the...
Open the Books is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization laser focused on providing...
According to The Washington Times, the EPA has spent $94.2 million over the last...
$92.4 Million Spent on Upscale Furniture at EPA
The federal agency that has the job of protecting the environment doesn’t seem to...
A couple of years ago, I wrote in this space about OpenTheBooks.com, then a fledgling...
Earlier this week we expanded our data collection efforts in Pennsylvania and here...
The shoes keeping dropping at the College of DuPage, the state's largest community...
DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin will take no action on an illegally...
Illinois’ high property tax is driving the American Dream underground. Citizens are...
Illinois’ second biggest reform effort – cleaning up College of DuPage – has quietly...
Cause of Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government accountability organization,...
Instead of directing court ordered payments to the developmentally disabled, the...
"In a city - and nation - that's underwater, it just may be the 'first responder'...
It’s a great town when the lifeguards make up to $211,912 in compensation with multi-million...
Open The Books App - 1st for federal spending, federal salaries, and local and state...
Contractors hired by previous governor are still billing for chartered airplanes,...
"Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism." Joe...
Adam Andrzejewski told the crowd at the Effingham VFW Post Home Thursday night to...
A local watchdog group is questioning whether College of DuPage engaged in “pay-to-play”...
Vendors who donated tens of thousands of dollars to a group that lobbied for a massive...
"Veterans and observers note some improvement, but say troubled agency (VA) still...
On June 30th, the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) expired. Let's keep it this way.
Here’s our latest undercover video showing that after more than a year of significant...
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In Illinois, government is driving the American Dream underground by forcing citizens...
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and video journalist James O’Keefe at Project...
Illinois property tax bills push home owners from homes while financing big pensions
In a report that is truly shocking, even by today’s standards of insider pillaging...
Should the federal Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im)be reauthorized? Congressional Deadline:...
In 1970, the federal governments Export – Import Bank (Ex-Im) “spun-off” a private...
The Export-Import Bank generates headlines because, after more than three-quarters...
It's a hot debate: should the federal Export - Import Bank be reauthorized? Congressional...
June has arrived, and with it, hopefully, the final days of the Export-Import Bank...
At an energy policy gathering in Washington, DC Tuesday put on by The Hill newspaper...
Congress should kill the Export-Import Bank, a taxpayer-financed slush fund for crooks,...
Open the Books has just released an excellent report exploring the Export-Import...
A new report that takes a deep dive into the Export-Import Bank’s transactions found...
Federal Transfer Report - Our Deep Dive into Export - Import Bank How is bankrolling...
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Bonuses at the most troubled VA facilities run virtually unabated Last year, it...
Last week the Illinois Supreme Court overturned a state law that would help fix the...
State Finances: In the annals of catastrophic court decisions, the one reached late...
Adam Andrzejewski, Chairman of American Transparency and founder of the transparency...
In the electronic, big data age, the "Golden State" excuses to keep public expenditures...
U.S. Post Office beta-tests grocery delivery; ObamaCare required state-by-state health...
College of DuPage President Robert Breuder will go on "approved medical leave" beginning...
Faced with a sweeping federal investigation and constant criticism of his lavish...
College of DuPage trustees and senior administrators used a separate — and previously...
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A group of government watchdogs filed a lawsuit against College of DuPage on Thursday...
The Obama administration's promise to be the "most transparent in history" has long...
The College of DuPage often boasts about its enrollment growth, using words like...
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Federal officials, through the Small Business Administration, are doling out billions...
DuPage County prosecutors have opened an investigation into spending at the College...
The volume in Minnesota of $1 million plus SBA-backed loans, which fell during the...
Without receiving a single competitive bid, the College of DuPage has paid a member...
The board in January approved a whopping $763,000 buyout for President Robert Breuder,...
As the city approaches financial bankruptcy, Chicago's elite's line-their-pockets...
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. touts itself in corporate filings “as...
"All of the individual transactions are legal, but the pattern is troubling." Adam...
States spent about $38 million last year fighting tobacco addiction, and tobacco...
Founder of OpenTheBooks.com Adam Andrzejewski describes The Chicago Way - a city...
Following our investigative series about a bizarre government lending program, the...
It’s national Sunshine Week across America. During this week, good-government groups...
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When a person accepts a position that is dependent on tax dollars, they also accept...
ANNOUNCING... Dr. Tom Coburn as Honorary Chairman of American Transparency
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A former College of DuPage employee has been charged with stealing from the campus...
There’s an old saying, “When the law’s an ass, somebody has to kick it.”
Today, at Forbes, OpenTheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski published an editorial...
An article published by Forbes.com, which quickly caught our attention, said Glenview...
These pages have been used many times before to rail against overpaid political cronies...
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has handed out $1 million in patronage pay...
Illinois is broke unless you're a friend of Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Since...
A DuPage County judge ruled that the College of DuPage board must find a bigger room...
When College of DuPage trustees meet Wednesday to vote again on President Robert...
Ever wonder what your village manager makes? How about the chief engineer? Openthebooks.com...
Fifty-two village and city managers in Illinois earn more than any U.S. governor...
A group of government watchdogs filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the College of DuPage's...
On the eve of a second vote on a controversial buyout package for College of DuPage...
At OpenTheBooks.com, we have completed our annual “Big Dogs” salary report of municipal...
College of DuPage trustees are expected to take another vote Wednesday on a controversial...
College of DuPage Trustee Katharine Hamilton urged fellow board members to fire President...
Adam Andrzejewski is in training for a half-marathon, and he figures to be ready...
The College of DuPage board of trustees Thursday night approved a buyout package...
A Wisconsin golf course that has filled all of its membership openings for the past...
The College of DuPage continued to employ the engineer at its campus radio station...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has been rather scandal-ridden since it’s...
Thanks to your support, 2014 has been a spectacular year. Here are some of the highlights......
Bruce Rauner’s triumph as the new Republican governor of Obama’s home state was the...
On May 29, 2013, Andrzejewski’s editorial was published in The Wall Street Journal,...
Kathy Hamilton stands four foot eleven, is a mother of two, a classic violinist,...
’Tis the season to be jolly . . . and to write generous checks to worthy causes....
Since May, our teams and allies have investigated the second largest college in Illinois-...
The Small Business Administration exists to help Americans “start, build, and grow”...
Government salaries makeup the majority of the annual budget and most do not provide...
Politicians tend to resist transparency so fiercely, of course, because they don’t...
Small Business Administration (SBA) Abuses Lending Programs
Despite a series of scandals, the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Memphis...
Private country clubs, marinas, ski lodges, and much more receive billions of dollars...
"It's an incredible fleecing of taxpayers. We need to embarrass Congress into reining...
The Small Business Administration is under fire for lending billions of taxpayer...
A new study claims that many of the loans given out by the Small Business Administration...
A federal program expanded by President Obama to help small businesses on Main Street...
For the first time, we quantify the SBA Loans Serving Wealthy Lifestyles.
In June, the College of DuPage (COD) lost a $20 million state construction grant...
We must fix the “broken windows” of Illinois corruption.
102 Illinois Public Officials Fled Their Positions Rather Than Face These Watchdogs
Recent newspaper headlines point to a perfect storm of entitlement, incompetence,...
Public health officials are blaming budget cuts for the slow response to the growing...
IS A $1 BILLION PAYROLL Enough- to Safe Guard the Health of American Citizens?
In 2011, the Chicago Tribune exposed a pair of Illinois teacher union lobbyists who...
Remember the two Illinois union lobbyists that substitute taught for one day and...
$95.1 million in hidden spending is exposed, while an Illinois junior college claimed...
College of DuPage officials said Wednesday that accusations the college concealed...
Warning: Parents being crushed by the ever-rising tuition bills might want to stop...
Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpentheBooks.com, the group that recently released...
A new report on school spending in Illinois reveals pension and salary-heavy budgets...
It was rough going at the second largest college in Illinois this summer.
At OpenTheBooks.com, download a SNAPSHOT™ Report for each of these 928 school districts...
At OpenTheBooks.com, today, we released our SNAPSHOT™ Spending Report for 928 IL...
If the Illinois Teachers Retirement Service (TRS) had to pay out all of its pensions...
Wine Cellar, French Restaurant, Shooting Club, corrupted $20 million state grant,...
The president of the College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, Ill., is trying to secure...
Wine Cellars, Shooting Clubs, a corrupted $20 million State Grant, a College President’s...
A careless email has cost one community college president $20 million, and potentially...
Last week, at The New York Meeting, Open The Books founder Adam Andrzejewski addressed...
It's time for criminal prosecutions. Step one: a Forensic Audit. It's deep, evidentiary,...
A month after Congressional hearings and the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki,...
The Arizona Republic at least 10 times since March has asked local VA officials orally...
Federal healthcare facilities for veterans in Connecticut are facing their own problems,...
"It's becoming more and more clear. The problems at the VA can't be blamed on money....
It is becoming clear the problems at the department of Veterans Affairs cannot be...
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS - TOTAL SALARY AND BONUS STUDY (2007-2013)... REVIEW...
Federal Transfer Report - Department of Veterans Affairs (Total Cash Compensation...
The Memphis Veteran Administration (VA) Medical Center approved over $1 million in...
Last week, the Congressional testimony of VA Secretary Gen. Eric Shinseki was echoed...
Prior to tendering his resignation amid a growing scandal, Veterans Affairs Secretary...
With a bureaucracy as dysfunctional as the VA, merely replacing the secretary will...
"A tiger never changes its stripes. Perhaps a whole new approach to providing veteran's...
The VA scandal is growing. It is not abating. Bonuses went to the worst hospitals....
The highest-paid Department of Veterans Affairs executives and doctors in Phoenix,...
Last week, VA secretary Eric Shinseki tried to bring closure to the scandal by firing...
Like many, I have been troubled by the reports coming out of Phoenix about our veterans...
The Veterans Affairs Department health care scandal has deepened in recent days,...
More than 12,000 Veterans Administration employees in several states have received...
The corrupt practice of Washington politicians spending tax dollars to help private...
a good government and transparency-minded watchdog organization — does exactly what...
The top executive for the Phoenix VA Health Care System has been directed to repay...
Forty plus veterans may have died waiting for care, and up to 1,600 veterans waited...
CBS5- KPHO-AZ Special Report "Broken Promises" showcases OpenTheBooks.com 1. Director...
Embattled Phoenix VA Health Care System Director Sharon Helman's nearly $9,400 bonus...
After embattled VA Undersecretary for Health, Dr. Robert Petzel announced his resignation/retirement,...
With 2.5 million federal salary records online, OpenTheBooks.com has provided needed...
This newsletter highlights articles, research, opinions, and other information related...
Forty plus veterans may have died waiting for care, and up to 1,400 veterans waited...
Salary data at OpenTheBooks.com shows clear evidence that the bureaucracy served...
Employees at the embattled Phoenix office of the Department of Veterans Affairs have...
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century moved the policy conversation...
"Adam (Andrzejewski) just explained what I've been waiting for someone to do-- which...
Rich Miller-- Springfield's Capitol Fax "journalist"-- rakes in over $521,000 in...
Understanding that there is waste in spending isn't that much of a reach, but WHERE...
We all know there are at least two basics that are absolute – death and taxes. One,...
The Charleston Meeting is a nationally-recognized gathering of elected officials,...
With our innovative technologies at OpenTheBooks.com, citizens, watchdogs, media...
Nick Gillespie, who helps kick off the show with a tour of woe through federal spending,...
Rev. Louis Farrakhan received $100's of thousands at his home address in Hyde Park,...
"Open the Books is doing the work I envisioned when the Coburn-Obama bill became...
Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin will release his House Republican budget next...
"This week an Illinois-based watchdog group, Open the Books, issued a new report...
Federal Transfer Report™- Farm Subsidies & The Big Dogs OpenTheBooks.com studied...
It’s very simple, really: Republicans have to be willing to cut weak claims, not...
Okay, this is from an article by Stephen Moore - our friend from the Heritage Institute...
One of the primary topics on this website since it was launched has been the extremely...
Most of us are aware that the government gives mountains of cash to powerful corporations...
Adam Andrzejewski offers a pithy formula for government transparency in a society...
"Corporate welfare is so well hidden from public view in the budget that no one has...
If Republicans are going to get truly serious about cutting government spending,...
Fiscal Years 2000-2012: Quantifying Federal Contracts, Grants, Loans, Direct Payments,...
In December 2013, we issued our The Federal Transfer Report- Farm Subsidies & The...
Several nonprofits that have little to do with farming or are in poor standing with...
Transparency is the foundation of smart government because it answers key questions...
Last week, our organization, American Transparency added 4.643 million California...
TOP 14,647 California Public Employees Cost Taxpayer's $5 billion
When Illinois' coalition of labor unions sued over the state's recent pension reforms,...
In spite of the massive half-trillion dollar price tag, the farm bill didn’t get...
An Islamic organization once listed by the Justice Department as a co-conspirator...
NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Dozens of former elected officials in suburbs surrounding Chicago...
Grant Wehrli doesn't want a pension for being elected to the Naperville City Council,...
"Washington, D.C., doesn't have many farms, or farmers. Yet thousands of residents...
Washington, D.C., doesn't have many farms, or farmers. Yet thousands of residents...
Whether it’s Washington, DC or state patronage systems, the modus operandi for IT...
Scrutiny of ObamaCare IT processes illustrates government at its worst. Billions...
Labor special interests in Illinois have filed two lawsuits to dismantle pension...
The historic purpose of the farm bill was to "ensure a stable food supply" and "to...
If you’re interested in how your tax dollar is being spent at the local level, check...
Thanks to your support, 2013 has been a spectacular year. Here are some of the highlights...
Over $100,000 in farm subsidies between 2008 and 2011 went a charity arm of the Nation...
Your tax dollars at work… Millions of dollars in farm subsidies were given to city...
Between 2008 and 2011, the U.S. government awarded roughly $6.12 million in federal...
Farm Subsidies flow to-- 2,800 Recipients in Washington, D.C. & Beltway; 930 Recipients...
FARM SUBSIDIES & THE BIG DOGS 2008-2011 Quantifying Farm Subsidies into Major American...
The publicly funded university pension system in the state of Illinois is in such...
With no "skin-in-the-game," colleges are conferring excessive salaries and slamming...
Last week, Marty Fridson of Forbes.com credited us with "... a major step forward...
Imagine getting control of a family’s checkbook and then making it difficult for...
Nobody knows better than Adam Andrzejewski that politics is a numbers game. In...
Illinois pays six-figure salaries to nearly 5,000 teachers who will not set foot...
The largest share of teacher/administrator pensions are paid by taxpayers, not educators.
“We sued because the Comptroller refused to show citizens the state checkbook and...
Our 2013 goal was to put "millions of eyes on the federal checkbook." Thanks to...
At OpenTheBooks.com, over 400,000 questions were asked and answered after the Stossel...
Billions of dollars of IT contracts are wrapped inside the implementation of Obamacare,...
Some state governments are willing to hire offshore IT service providers to work...
The John Stossel Show showcases OpenTheBooks.com during its “Innovation Nation” special....
Bollywood performers, a Boston boat cruise with an open bar, gifts of cigars and...
Can innovation stop America's politicians from spending us broke? Adam Andrzejewski...
Democratic Governor awards $71.4 million contract to an outsourcing firm billing...
Adam Andrzejewski, who published the report as founder of OpenTheBooks.com explains...
While everyone debates the policy points of ObamaCare, few understand that billions...
Yesterday, FOX News broke our investigation into No-Bid Illinois ObamaCare Implementation....
Government Salaries showcased for 31 States. Search the salary of YOUR local public...
We first broke this story to you on May 28th, here. Then multiple state employee...
It’s the new arms race… Recently, we’ve learned about the NSA and IRS Big Data collection...
Editor’s Note: After our Big Dog’s Report in June, outrageous municipal salaries...
We first started the expose of this case on May 28, 2013 with our subscriber email:...
Covering 2.5 million federal employees working in 50 states and 14,000 cities, Open...
Following up our “Big Dogs Report” 2013, Jim Dey, columnist at Champaign News-Gazette,...
Appearing in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal on page A13, our opinion...
Are they public servants or an elite bureaucracy? You decide.
Adam Andrzejewski says his web site and mobile app, Open the Books, could help motivate...
How is government spending our money? That's the question Adam Andrzejewski, a government...
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published our opinion editorial, Track Government...
A month ago, The Gateway Pundit showcased the OpenTheBooks app which hyper-localized...
Federal spending seems more outrageous when it hits close to home, and now smart...
National Sinclair Media Broadcast Group nightly news story. Played in 30% of country...
FOX, NBC, CBS, & ABC affiliates across America featured our OpenTheBooks app on their...
Big Spending Democrats and Statists will hate this— The “Open The Books” app is...
It’s that time of year again. Like millions of Americans — some 50 percent of tax...
The Kankakee Area Career Center provides high school students with the training needed...
OpenTheBooks wants to post an online “checkbook” for public review at its website,...
Nine months ago we filed a Freedom of Information Act Request simply seeking one...
We’ve always thought of state Comptroller Judy Baar-Topinka’s office as one of the...
Urge Congress to 'Read The Bill' - Do Not Vote For Any Member of Congress Who Will...