By Rick Manning The breadth of the administrative state has never been more apparent than over the past few months. The Department of State is filled with political activists with a globalist world view who are determined to subvert the policies of the duly elected President of […]
By Natalia Castro Union employees are often also federal employees, but instead of working for the government, they use taxpayer funded time to fuel their union agenda, often making in excess of $100,000 a year . This agenda is often partisan and does more to hurt federal employees than protect them. President Trump […]
By Rick Manning Government employee unions have enjoyed an absolute boondoggle in recent years, receiving hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds. But the boon could soon be over thanks to a new executive order from President Donald Trump. Last Friday, the president signed an executive order requiring […]
By Rick Manning By now it should be abundantly clear to the Trump administration that there are Obama administration holdovers in the 1.3 million non-defense, civilian federal workforce who have no other intention than to politically damage the White House. These rogue bureaucrats are not serving the […]
By Nathan Mehrens Will Rogers is reported to have once said, “be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.” While there are certainly many areas where we’re not getting what we pay for, one area where the problem is particularly acute is […]
By Nathan Mehrens Stephanie Hicks, former president of the union representing employees at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, was recently arrested after being indicted on charges of bank fraud, forgery, and aggravated identity theft charges. The charges are related to her alleged embezzlement of $132,000 from the union, American […]
By Willie Deutsch One of the things that Americans for Limited Government (ALG) does on an ongoing basis is Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to departments of the Obama administration. This is tedious, boring, and under the radar work, but it is necessary to […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Washington Examiner . By Nathan Mehrens — Around $156 million, that’s how much taxpayers spent in 2011 on federal employees who did no federal work at all. These aren’t people who fail to perform the work assigned to them, […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily . By Bill Wilson — Of all the federal agencies engaging in “bold, persistent experimentation” with our economy in recent years, U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been among the boldest, most persistent and most […]
