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Justice Department kept FBI employees in the dark for years about whistleblower protections

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Students make their way through the Sather Gate near Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus March 29, 2022, in Berkeley, Calif. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is available for the 2024-2025 school year, three months later than usual. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Government report blames Education Department for botched college aid revamp

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the second day of the Aero India 2023 at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

All-in costs for troubled F-35 fighter jet program price tag likely to top $2 trillion, GAO says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Biden sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent border wall money

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. On Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, a Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from an F-35 Lightning II over North Charleston, S.C. The search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes north of North Charleston, military officials said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

F-35 Lightning program’s cost keeps rocketing — to over $1.5 trillion

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Migrants from Haiti, Africa, and Central America wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Dozens of immigrants lined up Friday at a major Tijuana border crossing waiting to learn how the Trump administration's radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum would affect the tens of thousands of migrants stuck on the Mexican border seeking refuge.(AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Federal audit dings Kamala Harris’ border czar plan to tackle ‘root cause’ of illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2022. U.S. officials say the Pentagon will announce it is sending up to $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems. The aid comes as Ukrainian and Western leaders try to sort out the impact of the brief weekend revolt against the Russian military. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) **FILE**

GAO faults Pentagon over tracking of shipments of arms, supplies to Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Oct. 2, 2015, a sign warning of asbestos is displayed on a pipe of the engineering room at the John H. Wood, Jr. Federal Courthouse, in San Antonio, Texas. (John Davenport /The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Feds aren’t doing asbestos checks in most government buildings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks during a news conference, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Hundreds of communities around the country will receive more than $1 billion in federal money to help them plant and maintain trees under a federal program that is intended to reduce extreme heat, benefit health and improve access to nature. Vilsack will announce the $1.13 billion in funding for 385 projects at an event Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Whistleblower: Federal agency’s HQ is ‘empty’; Vilsack says work is getting done

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Pentagon should delay buying new planes for Special Operations Command, advises GAO

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Kendal Underwood, left, and Brittany Nickens protest in support of abortion rights outside Planned Parenthood Friday, June 24, 2022, in St. Louis. Missouri’s attorney general is defending the Republican-led Legislature’s latest attempt in a years-long struggle to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood. Lawyers for the state argued against any taxpayer money going to Planned Parenthood during a Missouri Supreme Court hearing Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) **FILE**

Planned Parenthood received nearly $2 billion in federal funds, pandemic loans in three years

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens at a informal dialogue and working lunch at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Biden student loan forgiveness ripe for fraud; 2 million claims were poised for automatic approval

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Unattended workstations fill the Teleworks USA job site in Beattyville, Ky., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The center was left dormant because of COVID-19 health concerns. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) ** FILE **

Ghost towns: Federal office buildings are 80% vacant, government audit finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, speaks to press prior to a closed executive session of the Committee, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a Sept. 20, letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro that was made public Monday, Oct. 2, by Mississippi's state auditor, U.S. Reps. Smith, of Missouri, and Darin LaHood, of Illinois, said the Government Accountability Office should review non-assistance spending in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

House Republican duo calls for fraud probe into federal anti-poverty program

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

1st Sgt. John Steed, right, leads military chants for troops from the Charlie 725 Main Support Batallion of the 25th Infantry Division out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii as they arrive at Karshi-Khanabad air base, in Uzbekistan, on April 27, 2004. Veterans' advocacy groups sued the U.S. Department of Defense on Monday, April 3, 2023, seeking records of toxic conditions at the air base, blamed for causing cancer and other illnesses among American troops who served there in support of the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Burt Herman, File)

Lawmakers demand accountability after report on squalid military barracks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. On Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, a Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from an F-35 Lightning II over North Charleston, S.C. The search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes north of North Charleston, military officials said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

‘Behind schedule’ and ‘far below’ goals: Pentagon must rethink F-35 strategy, watchdog says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Donald J. Trump's name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak in this April 23, 2020 photo taken in San Antonio. Early in the pandemic, government relief checks became an attractive target for criminals. The problem has only gotten worse and postal authorities and bank officials are warning Americans to avoid mailing checks if possible, or at least to use a secure mail drop such as inside the post office. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Fraudsters stole up to $135 billion in unemployment benefits during pandemic

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. The IRS plans to test-drive a new electronic free-file tax return system next year. Supporters and critics of the idea are mobilizing to sway the public and Congress over whether the government should set up a program to help people file their taxes without needing to pay somebody else to figure out what they owe. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS skimps on audits of high-dollar partnerships

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - A &quot;for sale&quot; sign hangs from a post outside of a vacant business building in Belleville, N.J., Thursday, May 3, 2018. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday, July 27, raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to tame high inflation. By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a mortgage or an auto or business loan.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Government should go back to work

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

This undated file photo shows the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. agency that oversees development and maintenance of the nation’s nuclear arsenal is moving ahead with plans to modernize production of key components for the weapons, but some watchdog groups and members of Congress are concerned about persistent delays and cost overruns.. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

In a nod to Oppenheimer’s legacy, U.S. officials vow to prioritize cleanup at nuclear lab

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press