OpenTheBooks
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Spending Addiction: Providers Who Billed Extraordinary Amounts of Opioids
Open the Books is taking another close look at American safety-net spending. This time, the focus is on opioid prescriptions.
The miniseries Dopesick familiarized the public with Perdue Pharmaceuticals’ mass marketing of pain killers and t...
Is Opioid Settlement Money Saving Lives?
If a business paid almost $84 million for a service but had no metric for whether that service was achieving its goals or measurably worthwhile in any way, would it continue funding that same service? Likely no, but that’s what the state of...
Disarming the Pencil Pushers? Administrative Agencies Begin to Cut Spending on Guns, Ammo
One would expect federal law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection and Drug Enforcement Administration to have guns to carry out the...
Senate Earmark Requests Triple House Wishlist: 11,000 Asks Worth Over $42B
While millions of Americans are struggling to afford rent and groceries in 2026, Congress members are already deciding which pet projects they want to spend millions of dollars on in 2027.
Dubbed the “currency of corruption” by the late Se...
Snip, Snip: Trump’s 2nd Pocket Rescission Cancels $810M
President Trump announced his second round of “pocket rescissions” last Friday, cutting $810 million in spending on programs that his administration has categorized as wasteful, ideological or not in the national interest.
Those include D...
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