FBI Director Christopher Wray warned members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about the dangers TikTok poses to the United States’ national security. “This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government, and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns,” Wray told senators at a March…
TikTok ‘Screams’ of National Security Risks: FBI Director
Bipartisan Lawmakers Target ‘Wasteful’ Government Spending Amid Debt Limit Stalemate
As members of Congress continue their deliberations over the national debt crisis, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are renewing their efforts to cut down on “wasteful” government spending. Legislation passed by the Senate in December aims to address the problem by requiring federal agencies to provide Congress with a list of programs for potential consolidation…
NTD Business (Dec. 23): Report: $482 Billion Taxpayer Money Wasted in 2022; Friday Flight Cancellations Top 4,700
The House passes the $1.7 trillion spending bill with just hours to spare—avoiding a partial government shutdown. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says nearly half a trillion dollars of taxpayer money were wasted this year. Of that, $3 million went into research on hamsters fighting on steroids. ByteDance admits that two TikTok employees spied on two…
Grim Examples of Wasteful Spending Make Us Miss Shrimp on Treadmills
Commentary For many years, there was a reliable, amusing symbol of wasteful government spending: shrimp on a treadmill. In the mid-2000s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded an experiment to test how bacterial infection would impact the mobility of certain crustaceans, and researchers did it by putting shrimp on a literal treadmill. For further research,…
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