Pinpointing the genesis of “waste, fraud and abuse” as political rhetoric is difficult. But the concept is older than the ...

By Jonathan S.K. AMABLEIn the first two (2) parts of this series, we set the context for this paper, highlighting the dividends our forebears expected our democracy to yield and the broad framework ...

REPUBLICANS love to claim they will cut “out-of-control” federal spending. They say it often enough that many believe out of ...

The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress.

Two others were placed on the bench by Ronald Reagan, and two more by George W ... Trump said judges were preventing his ...

It’s a long list that includes Arthur Laffer, whose theories on tax cuts and supply-side economics fundamentally reshaped ...

Northwestern’s conservative students’ group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), hosted economist Arthur Laffer Tuesday ...

Stockman, now 78, wanted me to know that he had written a 100-page memo for the original co-leaders of the “Department of ...

Recent past administrations, including under Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, have established advisory bodies aimed at cutting spending or making the government more efficient, but their ...

Now he is trying to do the same thing with over 2m federal employees, in an attempt to cut $1trn—more than half of all discretionary spending ... s so far off the charts," he says.

The following charts present historical trends in U.S. military spending and analyze the forces that may drive it lower. These charts draw on data from the Stockholm International Peace Research ...

Even under Ronald Reagan, who created a commission to cut costs and commanded its members to “work like tireless bloodhounds,” spending increased ... need every moment. Chart shows U.S ...