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• Harvest Real Savings by Reforming Agriculture Policy

  A number of common sense steps can be taken to create a more accountable, responsive, and cost-effective agricultural policy. Taxpayers for Common Sense and twelve other fiscal watchdogs sent a letter to Congress urging they harvest real savings in any new farm bill...

  
• Defense Cuts Necessary Step to Control Deficit

  Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen has said the Defense Department had “lost its ability to prioritize” in the post-Sept. 11 spending binge. The result is an overextended military that often spends too much on functions that provide too little security. Our fiscal crisis has finally forced DOD to develop that skill again ...

  
• Defense Savings Strengthen Our Economic Security

  Congress can help protect our nation’s economic security by pursuing a minimum of $50 to $100 billion in annual Pentagon budget savings over the next decade....

  
• TCS Testifies Before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

  "Today I just wanted to highlight several areas that I would encourage the committee to explore as we work together to ensure that our precious tax dollars are being spent wisely and effectively ...

  
• Sandy Spending Accountability

  We don’t like to think that taxpayers’ money could be allocated haphazardly, but there is no oversight mechanism to ensure Sandy spending will be used as it was intended. Congress must demand accountability for this $60 billion in taxpayer spending....

  
• Sandy Supplemental Analysis

  Sandy was a very intense and damaging storm and there is an important role for the federal taxpayer to aid those affected. But it is also critical that it be done in a limited and fiscally responsible way. The nation is facing nearly $110 billion in across the board cuts in 2013 - Congress can't churn out a wasteful $60 billion emergency supplemental stuffed with non-emergency funding....

  
• BETA - TCS Digital Infrastructure

  Our new Digital Infrastructure is now live in beta testing. We’re migrating our 17 years of research and investigations over to this new platform so we can better shine the light on the federal budget process. The digital world has changed how we track Federal spending, and you'll notice a number of improvements in process on this site....

  

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