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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.

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 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.

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.

Education Secretary Cardona said it will “take years” to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s education system.

Joe Biden falsely claimed U.S. schools are unable to open for in-person learning during the pandemic because “they need a lot of money.”

Sen. Kelly Loeffler led GOP senators in calling upon the DOJ, FBI, and the U.S. Treasury to investigate Planned Parenthood.

Michel Martin, the black host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday, said “protesters” in Minneapolis have been subjected to tear gas and other enforcement while “mostly white protesters” who gathered in Wisconsin and Michigan last month to push for governors to allow businesses to reopen after the coronavirus lockdown were “heavily armed” and “occupied” the state capitols.

A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a bill giving parents say in whether Drag Queen Story Hours would be permitted in publicly-funded libraries.

The Swedish public has voted that climate change spending has been the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019, according to a poll by the Swedish Taxpayers’ Association.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed into law a measure that provides $9.5 million in taxpayer funds, most of which will go to Planned Parenthood.

The director of a Seattle homelessness agency has resigned after her office’s annual conference featured a transgender stripper who danced topless and gave lap dances.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $398,000 grant to Florida International University (FIU) to study cancer screening barriers in Latino transgender men and women who now have a higher risk of the disease as a result of their “transition” treatments.

A federal appeals court held the Trump administration’s rule to end family planning funding of Planned Parenthood may take effect.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new education policy Thursday that recognizes the important role of non-governmental groups, including faith-based and private organizations, to provide education to children affected by crisis and conflict.

The defense attorneys representing the illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa say it is the foreign national’s “constitutional right” to receive American taxpayer funding to fight the murder charges against him. 

City officials announced Friday that the estimated cost for the proposed Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois, would cost taxpayers $175 million.

An Illinois Circuit Court judge rejected an attempt to block House Bill 40, which requires Illinois residents to pay for abortions regardless of their moral convictions in the matter.

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is stepping down from his post on the House Judiciary Committee amid charges of sexual misconduct.

Members of Congress are growing more interested in legislation that seeks to strip taxpayer funding from sports arenas following the recent NFL protests of the National Anthem.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order Friday that eliminates all state and local funding to health centers and providers affiliated with abortion clinics.

A federal appeals court last week ruled against Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit demanding taxpayer funding for abortion, creating a split with other federal appeals courts that might finally take this issue to the highest court in the land.

The international development secretary has received a “major rap over the knuckles” for trying to cut British funding to UN bodies, despite repeated calls for them to stop wasting taxpayer cash.

The man behind Corbynomics, the economic policy championed by Labour’s new leader Jeremy Corbyn, has reiterated his belief that there is no such thing as taxpayers’ money. Rather, there is only government money. Taxpayers’ money, he has stated, “is the

$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.

  Hallelujah for the federal government! Hallelujah for federal takeovers of the private economy! Hallelujah for socialism that means people much poorer than Chris Matthews are subsidizing Chris Matthews’ Amtrak travel. Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” lik almost all of