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$1.1T: CMS Sets Record for Annual Spending by a Federal Agency

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the federal government’s major health-care programs as well as the Obamacare insurance exchange, spent $1,113,178,000,000 in fiscal 2013, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for September, which was released last week. That sets a record for the most money ever spent by a federal agency or […] Continue reading →

Obama signs bill to pay military death benefits

Families of fallen troops will be assured of receiving death benefits under legislation President Barack Obama signed Thursday amid a national firestorm after the Pentagon suspended the roughly $100,000 payments during the partial government shutdown. Obama signed the bill into law after it won final passage in the Senate earlier in the day. But his […] Continue reading →

Disabled: No silver bullets for looming SSDI crisis

By: M. MacMillin Slobodien Politicians have a tendency to wait until the last minute and then try to solve every problem with a quick fix. Taxpayers witnessed this with the raising of the debt ceiling and with every recent “stimulus” bill that has passed. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)—the federal entitlement program that was originally […] Continue reading →