Chart: See what the national debt means to you
In a flurry of business to close out the fiscal year, Congress raised the debt limit by $850 billion to $9.815 trillion. Without this move, the federal government’s credit card would have maxed out on October 1 with an outstanding balance of $9 trillion. This staggering amount, […]

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, President Bush urged the nations of the world to work together “to free people from tyranny and violence, hunger and disease, illiteracy and ignorance, and poverty and despair.” That message echoes the enduring confidence that Americans have in freedom as a moral and […]

Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) today criticized the Tennessee state government for beginning a cigarette surveillance program to enforce a new cigarette tax. The state increased taxes on cigarettes by 42 cents to a total of 62 cents per pack on July 1, […]

CAGW Irate Over Democratic Leadership’s Cynical Shell Game at Taxpayers’ Expense
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today blasted the Senate leadership for its recent furtive attempts to roll back and undermine the earmark transparency and accountability provisions of S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which was signed into […]