BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, according a Congressional watchdog agency. The Government Accountability Office in a new report highlights anti-government tensions that at times have boiled over....
Watchdog: 4 Mar-a-Lago Trips in 2017 Costs Taxpayers $14M
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's four trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in early 2017 cost taxpayers nearly $14 million, a watchdog report Tuesday said. The Government Accountability Office said travel and accommodations, Secret Service expenses, deployment of bomb-sniffing dogs and other costs for the trips between February 3 and...
'Obama Phone' Program Rife with Fraud, Says GAO
By Giuseppe Macri InsideSources.com Lifeline — a federal program to subsidize telephone and internet service for poor Americans often dubbed the “Obama phone” program — is highly susceptible to fraud, abuse, and negligence, the director of a federal watchdog agency told Congress Wednesday. Safeguards designed to vet enrollees’ eligibility for...