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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is facing formal impeachment proceedings after Republican lawmakers introduced four articles accusing him of corrupt conduct in office, centered on his alleged role in overseeing, enabling, or failing to act on extensive fraud in state-run programs.

HHS on Thursday terminated a sex education grant to California over the state’s refusal to remove radical gender ideology from the taxpayer-funded program, the agency announced. 

Democrat-run New York City is having taxpayers foot the bill for a homeless shelter reserved exclusively for transgender-identifying individuals. 

MSNBC published an op-ed fretting over how the GOP’s move to slash funding to left-wing PBS could send children into “right-wing” clutches of the “propaganda platform” PragerU Kids.

Planned Parenthood released its 2023-2024 annual report over Mother’s Day weekend, revealing record abortions and taxpayer funding.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) put National Public Radio (NPR) on blast in a Tuesday committee hearing, calling out the media outlet for its obvious left-wing bias following President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to end its federal funding.

Republican Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) has plans to produce legislation that would strip abortion-giant Planned Parenthood of taxpayer funding through budget reconciliation.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has stopped millions of U.S. tax dollars from going to outlandish overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique, the watchdog initiative announced.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he would “like to” axe funding to abortion giant Planned Parenthood and PBS when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

A television ad campaign exposing taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for minors in swing states has been rejected by CBS and its owner, Paramount, an email from the parent company revealed.

Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed. 

A taxpayer-funded luxury apartment building is set to open in Los Angeles’s Skid Row neighborhood to provide hundreds of homeless people with housing and high-end amenities.

Illinois politicians voiced their skepticism of the NFL Chicago Bears’ proposed stadium that would need $2.3 billion in public funds, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) saying there are higher “priorities” for taxpayers.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration lost track of $24 billion it spent over the past five years on the homelessness crisis, an audit found.

More than $125 million of taxpayer money is earmarked to be used as no-strings-attached “guaranteed income” for low-income families across the U.S., a Daily Mail analysis revealed Sunday.

A D.C. mother spent thousands of dollars on a lavish vacation after receiving money from a taxpayer-funded program to help low-income people.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is already under federal investigation for her alleged misuse of taxpayer funds to pay her husband a six-figure sum for “private security.” Now, new filings are showing that she paid him an additional $17,500 in 2023.

A taxpayer-funded commission in Maine sponsored an extremely expensive webinar on January 2 regarding “offensive” place names in the state.

The House has approved a bill to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to just $1 after his repeated failures.

Republican attorneys general from 18 states filed an amicus brief in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit supporting Florida’s decision not to use taxpayer funds to pay for sex-mutilating transgender surgeries and drugs.

Affiliates of the abortion giant Planned Parenthood are among the recipients of millions of dollars from the federal government aimed at preventing teen pregnancies.

Senate Democrats want to use millions of dollars in federal funds to train health care workers to become abortionists.

Texas Republicans passed and sent a bill to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) desk over the weekend that would ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts at publicly funded universities in the state.

President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, reportedly flew on a taxpayer-funded jet from Washington, DC, to New York City before returning to D.C. several hours later, according to a calendar obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT).

The State Department is offering up to $50k to “counter stigma against the transgender community in India” by creating activist groups. 

The groups sent a letter to Congress warning that taxpayers could end up funding abortions by the VA under a new Biden administration rule.

A bombshell investigation found that at least $6.6 million in taxpayer dollars went to leftist organizations in San Diego that engage in lobbying, issue advocacy, and other political activities.

Democrat Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) is under fire for using nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars to pay one of his wealthy campaign donors for luxury office space over the past three years, a Washington Free Beacon report revealed.

In what is the latest instance of EU bigwigs attacking the conservative-led state, the European Parliament has now declared that Hungary is “no longer a democracy”.

Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) is suspiciously silent after reports came to light that he used taxpayer funds to pay the monthly parking fees for his private plane.

House Republicans are doubling down on their efforts to figure out why President Joe Biden’s State Department is funding atheism abroad.

Hawaii Democrat Rep. Kai Kahele has avoided voting in-person “due to the ongoing public health emergency” since January in Washington, DC while collecting his salary as a commercial pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, an international airline that lobbies Congress for legislation he has jurisdiction over.

A website aimed at tracking the funding of NGOs in Ireland has been shuttered after the Irish government cut the project’s principal source of public funding.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against Planned Parenthood Federation of America and several of its Texas affiliates in an attempt to recover $10 million in funds the abortion business received through the state’s Medicaid program after it was defunded.

More than 75 percent of America’s public schools are facing teacher, paraprofessional, and bus driver shortages, says a survey by the Education Week Research Center.

House Democrats blocked a motion Monday night that would have halted Vice President Kamala Harris from using taxpayer money for travel until she visits the southern border and creates a plan to deal with the crisis there.