Tag: government waste

LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (June 14): Senator Condemns Use of FISA Surveillance on Americans; Legal Experts Weigh In on Trump Arraignment

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) condemned the use of FISA surveillance during a June 13 hearing. He said the program—meant to investigate foreign agents—was allegedly used to spy on thousands of Americans without proper cause. Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Miami on June 13 to 37 felony charges related…


NTD News Today (June 14): Senator Condemns Use of FISA Surveillance on Americans; Legal Experts Weigh In on Trump Arraignment

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) condemned the use of FISA surveillance during a June 13 hearing. He said the program—meant to investigate foreign agents—was allegedly used to spy on thousands of Americans without proper cause. Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Miami on June 13 to 37 felony charges related…


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,…