#  @open_the_books Open the Books Open the Books posts on X about elon musk, books, money, doge the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [--] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1324709198/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +35% - [--] Month [---------] +14,301% - [--] Months [---------] +4,197% - [--] Year [---------] +680% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1324709198/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +18% - [--] Month [--] +149% - [--] Months [---] +107% - [--] Year [---] +90% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1324709198/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0% - [--] Month [------] +0.16% - [--] Months [------] +0.92% - [--] Year [------] +7.10% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1324709198/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [countries](/list/countries) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [us election](/list/us-election) [stocks](/list/stocks) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) **Social topic influence** [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [books](/topic/books), [money](/topic/money), [doge](/topic/doge), [breaking](/topic/breaking), [vivekgramaswamy](/topic/vivekgramaswamy), [agencies](/topic/agencies), [ceo](/topic/ceo), [department of](/topic/department-of), [in the](/topic/in-the) **Top assets mentioned** [Dogecoin (DOGE)](/topic/doge) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Why Washington D.C. Is In Trouble [----] Public Employees With $100000+ Salaries Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Will Congress bailout Washington D.C. for $3.2 billion" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/06/16/why-washington-dc-is-in-trouble--7780-public-employees-with-100000-salaries-cost-taxpayers-1-billion/) 2020-06-18T13:32Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Paid To Stay Home Coronavirus Aid Bill Pays Federal Employees With Kids Out Of School Up To $21K It is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/23/paid-to-stay-home--coronavirus-aid-bill-pays-federal-employees-with-kids-out-of-school-up-to-21k/) 2021-02-25T02:02Z 20.3M followers, 23.5K engagements "Read our full open letter to @elonmusk - Let's Build America's Checkbook cc @RepAaronBean @SenJoniErnst @PeteSessions @SpeakerJohnson @johnthune https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/02.05.25_MuskLetterJH_FINAL5.pdf https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/02.05.25_MuskLetterJH_FINAL5.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1889470299227201641) 2025-02-12T00:23Z 19.3K followers, [---] engagements "The Office of Refugee Resettlement has spent "$22.6 BILLION since [----] on nonprofits who were really incentivizing illegal immigration." -John Hart Open the Books CEO @johnhart333 via @LarsLarsonShow cc: @MatthewTyrmand @elonmusk @DOGE" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890540047713099819) 2025-02-14T23:14Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "@elonmusk @DOGE We've asked @SocialSecurity for disbursements by age and state in FY24. No word yet but we will keep pressing for transparency on our end #FOIA wait times need to be improved so the work of DOGE can go on long past [----] According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 https://t.co/ltb06VX98Z According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1891532365022794095) 2025-02-17T16:57Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements "via @brooketaylortv A division of HHS has spent $22.6B on migrants since [----] Our CEO John Hart says "it's a dollar that a family can't decide how they spend that money on their own. we've got to shift those dollars away from these wasteful programs." @FoxNews @FaulknerFocus cc: @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand @elonmusk @DOGE" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1891534900206993489) 2025-02-17T17:07Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "@ACTBrigitte We have all the details on ORR's $22B in grants for this stuff: $12.4B for unaccompanied minors (we know how that went) millions for small biz loans home & auto loans and much much more @ACTBrigitte @MatthewTyrmand @johnhart333 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1891623828234580038) 2025-02-17T23:00Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements "Thanks to @OutnumberedFNC for spotlighting BILLIONS in grants to migrants -- everything from help with auto & home loans to small biz support to fixing their credit history @EmilyCompagno thank you for your kind words - more fresh data at all the time http://openthebooks.substack.com http://openthebooks.substack.com" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1891855188337492222) 2025-02-18T14:20Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements "$22B from Office of Refugee Resettlement includes: ☑Help with home and auto loans ☑Credit history fixes ☑Small business loans and compliance tips & much more more. Details at our Substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1891897184309612685) 2025-02-18T17:06Z 19.6K followers, [---] engagements "In which @DoDEA_Americas discusses replacing Social Emotional Learning with Resilience to avoid scrutiny from our organization & taxpayers. This fits a pattern of obfuscation around their DEI & SEL efforts. All the details from [--] years of investigation SCOOP: We obtained audio of a meeting between top officials at @DoDEA_Americas. They discuss their plans to rebrand "Social Emotional Learning" as "Resilience" to avoid publicbacklash.@doge https://t.co/LI1pVjPmHG SCOOP: We obtained audio of a meeting between top officials at @DoDEA_Americas. They discuss their plans to rebrand "Social" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1892333043001471450) 2025-02-19T21:58Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements "📈DAILY AGENCY DATA (1/2): From 2020-24 USAID got 218% bigger.but annual outlays 467.7% higher That's a lot of DEI for Serbian workplaces and trans comic books for Peru. @johnhart333 @DOGE @elonmusk" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1893030628183928884) 2025-02-21T20:10Z 19.6K followers, [---] engagements "We estimate taxpayers saved $141 BILLION during the earmark moratorium. Banning them refocuses Congress on sensible budgeting & helps realize even more savings. Let's restore an earmark ban - Congress is a critical piece of the efficiency movement. @DOGE @elonmusk" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1894065815592341656) 2025-02-24T16:44Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "As @DOGE finds unemployment waste @USDOL IG says [--] states report overpaying $10.3 BILLION in Covid unemployment $676M in FRAUD. But auditors estimate another $25.3B state agencies failed to ID.💰came from the CARES Act. @elonmusk @MatthewTyrmand https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1910732307595493392) 2025-04-11T16:30Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "Californias Capitol Annex was set to cost $543Mnow its $1.1B AND the new design includes hallways that shield lawmakers from journalists #WasteOfTheDay at @RCInvestigates by @JeremyPortnoy https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/06/waste_of_the_day_secrecy_surrounds_california_capitol_annex_1113315.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/06/waste_of_the_day_secrecy_surrounds_california_capitol_annex_1113315.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1931053224481710227) 2025-06-06T18:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ""One of the reasons for putting this bill together was that Open the Books through a FOIA discovered that [----] NIH scientists received more than $300M in royalty payments during the last decade." - Sen. Dr. @RandPaul @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-34/ https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-34/" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1950568398280077812) 2025-07-30T14:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "That figure climbed as NIH revealed more data after we took them to court. Royalties skyrocketed during Covid. From FY2010-2023 gov't scientists and NIH subsagencies took $2.685B from the private sector https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1950568401140687147) 2025-07-30T14:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "WASTE OF THE DAY: SBAs Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544M of improper payments during COVID but the SBA has not even tried to recover most of the funds a new IG audit found @RCInvestigates https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/08/06/waste_of_the_day_no_effort_to_claw_back_improper_covid_grants_1125969.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/08/06/waste_of_the_day_no_effort_to_claw_back_improper_covid_grants_1125969.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1953873845066088947) 2025-08-08T17:40Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "WASTE OF THE DAY: Publicly funded Maine nonprofit pres. made $737K (10x the Governor of Maine's salary) in last [--] mos. on the job as organization complains its work being interrupted by Trump administration's grants cuts. @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/08/waste_of_the_day_maine_nonprofit_ceo_gets_big_payout_1133118.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/08/waste_of_the_day_maine_nonprofit_ceo_gets_big_payout_1133118.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1965406838800719953) 2025-09-09T13:28Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "WASTE OF THE DAY: @NSF spent $429K helping hikers get their social media fix contributing to "documentary poem" podcasts about AK's national parks. Normally tax $$ are spent to preserve natural beauty itself. @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/11/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday__facebook_promotes_national_parks_1133126.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/11/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday__facebook_promotes_national_parks_1133126.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1966488466658640318) 2025-09-12T13:06Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "We've joined a coalition calling on Congress to again ban earmarks. Last time they did it saved taxpayers $140B in a decade Sen. Coburn called earmarks a "gateway drug to Washington's spending addiction." @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand @AmericanFreedom http://bit.ly/4psBYxs Ban Earmarks Again @AmericanFreedom @Mike_Pence. https://t.co/nKY9ULnwwt http://bit.ly/4psBYxs Ban Earmarks Again @AmericanFreedom @Mike_Pence. https://t.co/nKY9ULnwwt" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1968757864953938280) 2025-09-18T19:23Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "🧵@SenJoniErnst transparency mission continues. She's asked @USOPM to address our finding that the Biden admin redacted identities of 350K+ federal employees locations for 281K. Read coverage from @mtapscott our joint @Newsweek op-ed & more" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1970520178174656866) 2025-09-23T16:06Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "While almost 9M Americans work [--] jobs to make ends meet bureaucrats are taking home double the salary for [--] job. How is that fair https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/columns/ernst-bureaucrats-being-paid-for-multiple-jobs-while-doing-neither https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/columns/ernst-bureaucrats-being-paid-for-multiple-jobs-while-doing-neither" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1973447908352463019) 2025-10-01T18:00Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "@JDVance We reported SIREN got $772K from state of CA in 2023-24. They fight for migrant access to MediCal. 🤷♂ https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/california-pumped-tens-of-millionsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/california-pumped-tens-of-millionsutm_source=publication-search" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1973748943826878693) 2025-10-02T13:56Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements "@JDVance Florida hospitals spent $566 million providing care for illegal immigrants in the last six months of [----] according to a recent report from the states Agency for Healthcare Administration. http://bit.ly/3IuYqpk http://bit.ly/3IuYqpk" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1973749612029837382) 2025-10-02T13:59Z 20.3K followers, 12.8K engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Baltimore County Public Schools are some of the worst in the country but that didn't stop the district from spending $613181 on catering massages private IMAX theaters TopGolf Dave & Busters personalized North Face hooded jackets and more. Is this what the kids call "failing up"" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1974097239187276077) 2025-10-03T13:00Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Meet Johnny Delawshaw. He's a suspended neurosurgeon raking in a $786K public pension the 2nd largest taxpayer-funded pension in Open the Books records. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_neurosurgeon_gets_786k_pension_1139810.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_neurosurgeon_gets_786k_pension_1139810.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1977724796260553004) 2025-10-13T13:15Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: A SC sheriff embezzled $44K in federal funds and spent it on: 💊 Drugs 🚗 Car washes 🍩 Krispy Kreme 🧇 Waffle House 🥩 Steakhouses 🚬 Cigarettes 👨💻 Apps 📡 Sirius XM 👶 Hiring his son Even policemen are not above the law. Audit everything" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1978459649843077401) 2025-10-15T13:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: An Alabama sherrif used the county "bingo fund" to lavish bonuses on employees and go to town at restaurants hotels automotive repair shops gas stations and grocery stores. The fund is supposed to be used to "benefit the public good/welfare." 🤔 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/20/waste_of_the_day_alabama_officials_get_bingo_bonuses_audit_1141456.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/20/waste_of_the_day_alabama_officials_get_bingo_bonuses_audit_1141456.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1980276833447748001) 2025-10-20T14:16Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ""With the shutdown Chuck Schumer has taken himself hostage and is begging Trump to not shoot." @johnhart333 joins Matt Kittle on the @FDRLST podcast. Listen for more truth 💣 https://tinyurl.com/4cmm57mw https://tinyurl.com/4cmm57mw" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1980318431997227407) 2025-10-20T17:01Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Another fiscal year is in the books and the national deficit for [----] is. $1.8 TRILLION according to @USCBO. That means the U.S. govt spent $1.8T more than it took in. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/22/waste_of_the_day_federal_deficit_is_almost_2_trillion_1141458.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/22/waste_of_the_day_federal_deficit_is_almost_2_trillion_1141458.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1980996363530780833) 2025-10-22T13:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Paging @GavinNewsom. We covered San Fran's poop problem in [----] and 2023and it's still getting worse. https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-maputm_source=publication-search San Francisco Streets Are Dirtier; More Feces Graffiti than Last Year https://t.co/TCEc1NjsW0 via @BreitbartNews https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-maputm_source=publication-search San Francisco Streets Are Dirtier; More Feces Graffiti than Last Year https://t.co/TCEc1NjsW0 via @BreitbartNews" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1981399031268962364) 2025-10-23T16:35Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "The govt shutdown by the numbers: 💰It costs $400 million per workday to pay [------] furloughed nonessential workers 💰 [------] essential workers are working without pay 💰 Back pay is guaranteed for all impacted federal workers 💰 @Senjoniernst has a bill (Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act) to make back pay more transparent" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1981709515230753077) 2025-10-24T13:09Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "📺SHUTDOWN WATCH: Just how many federal employees are in Texas You might be surprised to find out.Details on who where and how many are still getting paychecks" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1982567476354592915) 2025-10-26T21:58Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay TBT: In [----] taxpayers paid the University of Notre Dame $802K to track cell phone usage of [---] college students. NIH joined the fun in [----] with a $3M study tracking students using wearable technology. What did we learn Stop wasting our money. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/30/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_tracking_college_students_1142639.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/30/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_tracking_college_students_1142639.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1983939157224264183) 2025-10-30T16:48Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "RE: the debate about illegal immigrants benefitting from tax dollars for health care. @FDRLST in the lead covering our findings on nearly $200M in grants mentioning "undocumented" populations @MatthewTyrmand https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1983985264017219837) 2025-10-30T19:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "- $18.7K for a USC study on disparities in end-of-life care in undocumented Hispanic immigrants. 2/3" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1984008143643537436) 2025-10-30T21:22Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements "- $592K earmark to UCLA for a mobile healthcare program targeting people experiencing homelessness including illegal immigrants. 3/3" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1984008145715482804) 2025-10-30T21:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Paging @Sec_Noem. again. DHS is spending $180 million to thank Pres. Trump for securing the border. The ads are narrated by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/31/waste_of_the_day_tv_ads_thank_trump_for_border_control_1142641.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/31/waste_of_the_day_tv_ads_thank_trump_for_border_control_1142641.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1984303121766478261) 2025-10-31T16:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "TREAT US MADAM SECRETARY. Put the wasteful Department of Education in the grave. 🪦👻 More thoughts from us 👻 TRICK: Teachers Unions 🎃 TREAT: Closing the Department of Education 👻 TRICK: Teachers Unions 🎃 TREAT: Closing the Department of Education" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1984338276040515731) 2025-10-31T19:14Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "ICYMI: A reminder on how much we're paying for furloughed workers NOT to work as the shutdown drags on" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1984374227651477595) 2025-10-31T21:37Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Does govt spend taxpayer $ on illegal immigrants YES. Our latest report found $194M in earmarks/grants on healthcare spending for illegals. For example: $2.4M million to study the use of reproductive healthcare among Asian immigrant women. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3rx77ykr https://tinyurl.com/3rx77ykr" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1985442360461771162) 2025-11-03T20:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay TBT: In [----] the U.S. unemployment rate was 9% but that didn't stop the federal govt from spending $1.4 million ($2M in today's $) to create jobs in. Barbados" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986443609516753313) 2025-11-06T14:40Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Does the federal govt spend money on illegal immigrants' health care Yes to the tune of $209 million in direct grants and earmarks" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986488500259000793) 2025-11-06T17:39Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Michigan offered Chinese company $715M in subsidies to build a $2.4B electric battery plant. After little progress Michigan pulled out of the deal but no word on whether the state will recoup its initial $23.6M investment" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986813228974776701) 2025-11-07T15:09Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Folks in NYC are going to find this out real soon. Well said @JohnHart33" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986847393774543106) 2025-11-07T17:25Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Admitting is the first step. 🚨 BREAKING: A STUNNING admission has just occurred on the Senate floor. Sen. Peter Welch (D) on Obamacare: "We DID fail to bring down the cost of healthcare There it is. Its their issue and now theyre begging Trump to clean up their mess. https://t.co/p1RuoFn8EI 🚨 BREAKING: A STUNNING admission has just occurred on the Senate floor. Sen. Peter Welch (D) on Obamacare: "We DID fail to bring down the cost of healthcare There it is. Its their issue and now theyre begging Trump to clean up their mess. https://t.co/p1RuoFn8EI" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986852915613442536) 2025-11-07T17:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "We opened the books & found $33M+ in taxpayer funds went to radical groups tied to Mamdani associates. Can we expect more in the next [--] years We'll be tracking NYC spending & policy outcomes in [----] and beyond. READ: cc @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://bit.ly/3WGPb91 https://bit.ly/3WGPb91" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986867711993844052) 2025-11-07T18:45Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "Remember when Mamdani posed with terrorist sympathizer Siraj Wahhaj Our latest investigation shows his organization took more than $300K in govt funds. Today at Masjid At-Taqwa I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj one of the nations foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah. https://t.co/4kcN4CGlUk Today at Masjid At-Taqwa I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj one of the nations foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986898310255239318) 2025-11-07T20:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Read more: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1986898312075878428) 2025-11-07T20:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ""Every dollar of SNAP benefits that goes to a criminal or someone that isn't here legally is a dollar not available to help someone that should receive it." - @johnhart333 talks waste fraud and Democrats' claims no federal $ go to illegal immigrants. @NEWSMAX @MatthewTyrmand" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1987641347810193559) 2025-11-09T22:00Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "Antisemitie Linda Sarsour is a Mamdani advisor and confidant. Her organizations raked in $4.1 million in govt $. How much will she get when Mamdani becomes mayor 🤔 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yc22y5tb KEEPING SCORE: Linda Sarsour warns she'll ensure Zohran Mamdani fulfills his campaign promises including dismantling an NYPD unit that polices terrorism threats protests and riots if he's elected. https://t.co/BGCCEonxBG https://tinyurl.com/yc22y5tb KEEPING SCORE: Linda Sarsour warns she'll ensure Zohran Mamdani fulfills his campaign promises including dismantling an NYPD unit that polices terrorism" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1987671545448473026) 2025-11-10T00:00Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Surprise surprise. Radical groups tied to Zohran Mamdani have been raking in taxpayer money. Linda Sarsours Arab American Association of New York alone received $4.1 million between [----] and [----]. Why are we funding this rot with public dollars" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1987905582838493672) 2025-11-10T15:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Read more: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1987905584260075752) 2025-11-10T15:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "What we see from the left is this counterfeit compassion bigger subsidies bigger programs from Washington. If that was the solution wed have solved health care affordability and hunger decades ago. John Hart on @Newsmax" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1987941156378775769) 2025-11-10T17:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: What's a $750 bidet between taxpayers Former Utah State University President Elizabeth Cantwell went on a $661K spending spree with taxpayer money including the aforementioned bidet several cars a golf cart & a $250K office renovation" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1988644922896105837) 2025-11-12T16:27Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#MappingTheSwamp digs into the entire federal workforceExecutive Branch DOD and USPSand the math is wild. Headcount creeps up 5% since [----] but payroll rockets 24%. Washingtons not growing in people just in price" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1989381350554480764) 2025-11-14T17:14Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#MappingTheSwamp shows obscure agencies cutting staff by 6% 18% even 75%yet payrolls STILL rise as much as 30% or even 61%. Fewer employees. Bigger budgets. All hidden in a murky and bloated swamp" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1989730638480490762) 2025-11-15T16:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "You cant run a $100B program with [------] dead recipients on the rolls and expect no audit. Every dollar spent this way is a dollar unavailable to those who need it. Open the books @SecRollins. 🚨 BREAKING: To end MASSIVE SNAP fraud the Trump administration is forcing EVERY recipient to verify they cannot "survive without it." [------] THOUSAND recipients getting SNAP twice. [------] THOUSAND DEAD PEOPLE getting SNAP. Holy smokes. CRIMINAL. https://t.co/3m0kMmEAMd 🚨 BREAKING: To end MASSIVE SNAP fraud the Trump administration is forcing EVERY recipient to verify they cannot "survive without it."" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1990454658754896006) 2025-11-17T16:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#MappingTheSwamp: In Washington doing more with less means spending more with less. Multiple major agencies lost staff since [----] but nearly all of them increased payroll anyway. Only the swamp can shrink and grow at the same time" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1990484104140239034) 2025-11-17T18:16Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Houston city employees spent $5 million refueling city-owned cars at commercial gas stations even though Houston owns its own fuel stations with much cheaper rates. Employees also spent $557K on premium fuelwhich is against the law" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1990527646992576994) 2025-11-17T21:09Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Mamdani's friends & advisors got millions in taxpayer money from 2017-2024 including a nonprofit previously led by antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1990796410581610503) 2025-11-18T14:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#MappingTheSwamp Payroll up. Headcount up. Transparency DOWN. Washington has redacted [---] million federal workersthe most in U.S. history. Open the Books explains the collapse in oversight:" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1990883785257177363) 2025-11-18T20:44Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Taxpayers keep doling out more federal $ on education and test scores keep dropping. Time to end the racket. Power stripped from Education Department in latest Trump administration move to dismantle it https://t.co/LfCm480Wf8 Power stripped from Education Department in latest Trump administration move to dismantle it https://t.co/LfCm480Wf8" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1991221631620911347) 2025-11-19T19:06Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Forget opening. Its time we close the books on the Department of Education. @Linda_McMahon BREAK UP THE FEDERAL EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY. https://t.co/iVoiHyEr5Q BREAK UP THE FEDERAL EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY. https://t.co/iVoiHyEr5Q" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1991286961420607596) 2025-11-19T23:26Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#MappingTheSwamp: Fauci is gone but the swamp replaced him with a new top-paid employee at NIH for $519246. AND they ballooned the top pay bands by 82%. Washington protects its ownunless we stop it" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1991503082849472823) 2025-11-20T13:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Exactly right @BasedMikeLee. Earmarks wasted billions and gave politicians way too many chances to trade favors. When the ban was in place taxpayers saved an estimated $140 billion over a decade @johnhart333 Earmarks are bad because they direct tax dollars to exclusive projects and individual usethe definition of reckless spending So Senate Republicans adopted a policy banning them in [----] That policy is still in place Senate Republicans should honor that ban Share if you agree https://t.co/wIR7FXZkvW Earmarks are bad because they direct tax dollars to exclusive projects and individual usethe" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1991875945729552702) 2025-11-21T14:26Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Capitalism works. Bureaucracy doesnt. Were spending $1B/day attacking the system that builds prosperity. @JohnHart333 on @NEWSMAX" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1991922374334194112) 2025-11-21T17:31Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: DHS spent $220 MILLION on public service ads and $143M of it quietly flowed to a brand-new Delaware LLC tied to Kristi Noems political allies. The agency still cant explain why a crisis at the border required cowgirl commercials on TV. 🤠" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1993038942304882928) 2025-11-24T19:28Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Chicago Public Schools blew $14.6 MILLION jet-setting staff to Egypt Hawaii Finland South Africa and Vegas. Meanwhile the district is $10B in debt and barely [--] in [--] students can read at grade level. ✈" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1993429194286809109) 2025-11-25T21:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "DOJ just convicted two brokers in a $233M Obamacare scamfake incomes bogus apps and millions laundered into luxury homes. And yet the ACA still racks up $15B/yr in improper payments. Fraud is the tip of the iceberg" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1993484119880134777) 2025-11-26T00:57Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "For 40+ years @usedgov spent more and delivered less: 👉 Per-pupil spending +245% 👉 ED budget +449% 👉 Scores flat 👉 60% of 4th graders below basic reading @EDSecMcMahon it's time to slam this bureaucracy straight through the mat" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1993674374348493168) 2025-11-26T13:33Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Throwback Thursday to when DHS spent taxpayer dollars on [--] Sno-Cone machines for counterterrorism. Yes$11700 so a western Michigan office could fight heat exhaustion (and maybe Al Qaeda) with blue raspberry ice. 🍧" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1994162672602894789) 2025-11-27T21:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: While Congress refuses to get federal spending under control taxpayers are footing the bill for their Teslas Lexuses $1000-a-month car leases and six-figure mileage tabs. One staffer billed [--] trips around the planet. 🚗" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1994541233604366404) 2025-11-28T22:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#ShutdownSpendingSpree: @SenBooker secured $350000 for a 65-foot elephant statue from [----] thats been running for president struck by lightning and rented on Airbnb. Just why" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1994887878909071800) 2025-11-29T21:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "You know its bad when your own DHS staff are the ones blowing the whistle. Tim Walz didnt stop the fraudhe allegedly punished the people who tried. Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats repression Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no we got the opposite" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1996273791857770629) 2025-12-03T17:42Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "ICYMI: The Education Department spent $4 trillion and gave us lower test scores bloated payrolls and grants to Chinese companies. @johnhart333 lays it out in @nypost: https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/opinion/trumps-education-dept-fight-strikes-a-mortal-blow-to-big-government/ https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/opinion/trumps-education-dept-fight-strikes-a-mortal-blow-to-big-government/" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1996276008111296888) 2025-12-03T17:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: The terrorist-aligned CAIR received $30.8 million in federal state and local taxpayer dollars since [----] most of it coming from California. Terrorists win Americans lose" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1998064941916369051) 2025-12-08T16:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements ".@foxnews featured our new report revealing federal spending per person has surged nearly 10000% since [----]. This is what runaway government looks like. 😬" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1998757878379983078) 2025-12-10T14:13Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: A new program that gives unlimited free phone calls to MA prisoners cost taxpayers $12.5 million in [----]. How B/c many inmates are using the calls to plan new criminal activity" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1998800587207389237) 2025-12-10T17:02Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Happening at 2:30 PM: @johnhart333 is testifying in the U.S. Senate on Running Government Like a Small Business. Expect receipts: ➡ $20k+ federal spending per person ➡ SBA loans to yacht clubs & luxury spas ➡ [-----] feds making $200k+ Watch live: https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearingsID=41D31259-5DBB-46AE-A95A-174D21F48B17 https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearingsID=41D31259-5DBB-46AE-A95A-174D21F48B17" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1998836649715777651) 2025-12-10T19:26Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Put simply American taxpayers deserve more bang for their buck along with the accountability tools to make it happen. @johnhart333 Instead of doing more with less the government does less with more- Hart Instead of doing more with less the government does less with more- Hart" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1999106363692105810) 2025-12-11T13:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Read how the government is doing less with more in our latest substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/federal-government-spending-20474 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/federal-government-spending-20474" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1999106366292509160) 2025-12-11T13:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Watch @johnhart333 explain how AI can deliver real oversight by spotting patterns predicting risks and catching misuse early. Open the Books is building the tools to do exactly that with the largest spending dataset ever assembled. CC: @SenJonHusted" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1999186534713430510) 2025-12-11T18:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "At yesterday's Senate Small Business Committee hearing @johnhart333 exposed staggering SBA failures: ➡ $645M in loans to kids under [--] and people over [---] ➡ $105M to country and yacht clubs Republicans say the SBA is rife with waste fraud and abuse. Hard to disagree" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1999210696270024879) 2025-12-11T20:12Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "The White House says the Noem firing rumors are total Fake News. Can we get a statement on all the real newslike how her friends have made out beautifully at DHS https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-calls-report-about-trump-considering-firing-noem-total-fake-news https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-calls-report-about-trump-considering-firing-noem-total-fake-news" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/1999880999958671828) 2025-12-13T16:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "ICYMI: @johnhart333 testified before the Senate on waste fraud and government accountability. Here are the highlights" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2000662120275366098) 2025-12-15T20:19Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Lose the game win the jackpot. 🏈💸 Taxpayers are on the hook for $228 MILLION in severance for fired college football coaches this year alone and $1 BILLION since [----]. Turns out the only guaranteed win in college football is the buyout" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2001017799859429841) 2025-12-16T19:53Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements ".@SenJoniErnst strikes again w/ her Where's WALDO Act after our "Mapping the Swamp" report showed the swamp getting bigger richer & more secretive. Where's WALDO will force the gov to develop a directory of all federal workers & contractors. Finding Waldo shouldn't be so hard https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-employees-hot-seat-gop-senator-pushes-transparency-historic-opportunity https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-employees-hot-seat-gop-senator-pushes-transparency-historic-opportunity" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2001716113311154617) 2025-12-18T18:08Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements "How bad is govt spending growth In [----] the federal govt spent $216 per person. In [----] it spent $20474 per person. ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2003224306751561853) 2025-12-22T22:01Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: In [----] USDA spent $75000 reminding people to buy Christmas trees. For Christmas. In December. Apparently centuries of human tradition needed a federal nudge. 🎄" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2004368467181686832) 2025-12-26T01:47Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "More federal research money than ever. Less reliable science" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2004928453142061236) 2025-12-27T14:52Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "In [----] Open the Books exposed how Tim Walzs Minnesota paid out billions with no explanationcontracts grants settlements all blurred together. Today the FBI says Minnesota fraud is the tip of a very large iceberg. Let's blow the lid on everything" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2005684756374331846) 2025-12-29T16:58Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "As a Minnesota's MASSIVE fraud scheme unfolded Rep. Ilhan Omar went from nearly broke to declaring $6$30M in assets. In that time she's backed looser oversight promoted a now-convicted fraud site and had campaign ties to fraudsters. We need transparency and accountability here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006025278032629825 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006025278032629825" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2006025278032629825) 2025-12-30T15:31Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "We've reported on Covid aid fraud or years AND the troubling inability to claw back funds once they're gone. It's about time for this robust response. Over the last week SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota. Today our agency took action to suspend [----] Minnesota borrowers amid suspected fraudulent activity. In total these borrowers were approved for Over the last week SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota. Today our agency took action to suspend 6900" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2007153585260572939) 2026-01-02T18:14Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "From $925 BILLION in improper payments to millions paid to retired bureaucrats government waste didnt slow down in [----]. We tracked it all. Read our top [--] Most Popular Waste Investigations of 2025" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2007576920570114241) 2026-01-03T22:16Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Accountability isnt partisan. When leaders allow taxpayer dollars to be funneled into fraud waste or abuse there are consequences no matter the party. Every elected official in every party is on notice" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2008254988984983768) 2026-01-05T19:11Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Taxpayers are now funding up to [--] weeks of paid leave in MN$1420 per weekunder a law with NO GUARDRAILS. You can even designate almost anyone as a care recipient while enforcement runs on the honor system. Big money. No oversight. You do the math" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2008560951923286070) 2026-01-06T15:27Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: A Connecticut nonprofit got $2.8M to help low-income families pay winter heating bills. Turns out the money was used for its own operating expensesand the checks to the utility bounced. The only ones who stayed warm this winter were the fraudsters. 🥶" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2008714487352975591) 2026-01-07T01:37Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "HHS is closing a Biden-era loophole that allowed child care providers to be paid before services were delivered or attendance was verified. Restoring basic controls protects taxpayers working families and children" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2008950724651057650) 2026-01-07T17:15Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Washington rang in [----] with $1.6 TRILLION in wasteful spending flagged in @RandPauls annual Festivus report including bug-eating research drunk ferret experiments and video games about the year [----]. Serenity now" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2008989359832547520) 2026-01-07T19:49Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "When states sue to block SNAP data requests it raises one simple question: what are they hiding Programs that work dont fear sunlight. .@PressSec is absolutely right. Here at @USDA protecting taxpayer dollars means ZERO tolerance for fraud. Every day we are asking hard questions demanding transparency and enforcing accountability in the SNAP program so that benefits go to eligible American families and .@PressSec is absolutely right. Here at @USDA protecting taxpayer dollars means ZERO tolerance for fraud. Every day we are asking hard questions demanding transparency and enforcing" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2009288521790390754) 2026-01-08T15:38Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Congratulations to @timburchett on being named Chair of the House DOGE Subcommittee. You have a real opportunity to turn DOGE into lasting reform. Let's make the DOGE revolution stick" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2010721251736916010) 2026-01-12T14:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "As @johnhart333 put it make the DOGE revolution stick https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2010721254589006103) 2026-01-12T14:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "The Minnesota daycare scandal proves one thing: transparency works. Citizen journalists exposed what government oversight missed. Now Open the Books has released nationwide daycare spending data so anyone can follow the money. Go fish. 🎣👇" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011155564534132757) 2026-01-13T19:17Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Read our latest Substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011155567017103511) 2026-01-13T19:17Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Open the Books analyzed CCDF spending from the top [--] recipient states and searched nationwide for any publicly funded entity with daycare in the nameacross all spending categories. If fraud exists this is how you find it" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011448947663872507) 2026-01-14T14:42Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011449158125879693) 2026-01-14T14:43Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Oil and gas companies are supposed to pay royalties from drilling on federal land. But the Dept. of Interior doesn't have the time to make sure companies are paying what they owe" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011552138695229462) 2026-01-14T21:32Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Our CEO @johnhart333 joined @TPPF @RealBPhil to talk about the biggest fraud story in recent memory the Minnesota daycare scandal. Plus how to stop fraud before it starts and the future of government transparency. Full episode: https://www.texaspolicy.com/multimedia/article/stop-government-fraud-before-it-starts-open-the-books-ceo-john-hart-the-right-idea-ep-105 "Transparency cuts through government like water cuts through stone. The flow can seem unremarkable and mundane but over time when it finds cracks it can wipe away mighty walls of opposition." https://t.co/TgYbQQWJxc" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011862109684945191) 2026-01-15T18:04Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "We want to crowdsource oversight. That's why we published state daycare funding data so journalists and citizens can see where the money went and knock on doors themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011917663748923453) 2026-01-15T21:45Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "See the data for yourself: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2011917665795703241) 2026-01-15T21:45Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements "Yep that was us 😅 Appreciate shoutout from @RandPaul on @joerogan. Billions in royalties flowed to government scientists and we helped expose it. Litigation continues with our partners @JudicialWatch to force full disclosure" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2012201554527371588) 2026-01-16T16:33Z 20.5K followers, 54.2K engagements "Heres the full story of our yearslong effort to uncover the secret royalty scheme happening among NIH and private entities including pharmaceuticals. https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/impact-paul-ernst-advance-royalty https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/impact-paul-ernst-advance-royalty" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2012265161067810933) 2026-01-16T20:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Maryland's SNAP program costs $22M but is rife with fraud and abuse with a 14% payment error rate" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2012269827105095692) 2026-01-16T21:04Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "What separates America from Communist China is simple: we can actually look at the books. And we are going to keep on looking" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2012906709396672679) 2026-01-18T15:15Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "The internet is this eras printing press putting power in the hands of everyday people. Thats why we just published a searchable database of taxpayer-funded daycare centers so citizens can investigate for themselves. @johnhart333 on @TPPF" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013279749431275904) 2026-01-19T15:57Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Explore the data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013279968071970934) 2026-01-19T15:58Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: North Carolina claims 30% of lottery ticket revenue funds public schools but a new audit shows that's a L-I-E. Time to invest more in math skills perhaps" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013428864056189198) 2026-01-20T01:50Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Open the Books exists so everyday Americans can follow the money ask hard questions and expose fraud. Use our data. Ask questions. Be the next Nick Shirley" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013706690852454422) 2026-01-20T20:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Check out our data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013706692937093268) 2026-01-20T20:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/state-of-the-state-schoolsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/state-of-the-state-schoolsutm_source=publication-search" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013756089754378314) 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "2/ We audited [--] major public universities. What we found: Exploding DEI payrolls Growing DEI staff headcounts DEI-driven investment priorities Public dollars funding radical ideological programs" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013756091138519103) 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "🔗 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/transparency-crisis-a-black-box-of https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/transparency-crisis-a-black-box-of" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013756094967939181) 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "4/ Example: the University of Virginia quietly approved a $970 million decade-long DEI plan while undercounting how many DEI staff it actually employs. Billion-dollar political agendas hidden behind academic branding. This is the crux of the issue" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2013756096347804078) 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "🚨 NEW: Federal grants meant to STOP school violence are being redirected to defray the costs of illegal immigration. One DOJ grant admits an influx of migrant families coincided with a 119% spike in school arrests. This is a misuse of taxpayer dollars" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014400529720308186) 2026-01-22T18:11Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Read our latest report: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/school-system-federal-grantees-say https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/school-system-federal-grantees-say" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014400531662282752) 2026-01-22T18:11Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @SenJoniErnst: SNAP plays an essential role in helping feed needy families. Every dollar stolen from SNAP is food taken from a hungry c" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014433271682064889) 2026-01-22T20:21Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "👻 Ghost Students Still Collecting Fraudulent Federal State Aid: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/ghost-students-still-collecting-fraudulent https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/ghost-students-still-collecting-fraudulent" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014440972730409175) 2026-01-22T20:52Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay #TBT: USAID had good intentions when it sent $52 million to Afghanistan but a large portion was lost to waste and fraud including rodent infestation" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014557545092780541) 2026-01-23T04:35Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 Read more on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/22/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_rats_ate_afghani_aid_1158796.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/22/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_rats_ate_afghani_aid_1158796.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014557879747920258) 2026-01-23T04:36Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @open_the_books: 🚨 NEW: Federal grants meant to STOP school violence are being redirected to defray the costs of illegal immigration. On" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014739412949602662) 2026-01-23T16:38Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "RT @jchristenson_: Scoop: @HHSGov has warned Minnesota it could have to repay hundreds of millions in federal dollars if the state keeps re" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014739546064248906) 2026-01-23T16:38Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements "President Donald Trump Probably Donated His Entire $1.6M Salary Back To The U.S. Government Here Are The Details We verified fourteen of the sixteen quarterly donations during Trump's four year term" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/27/president-donald-trump-probably-donated-his-entire-16m-salary-back-to-the-us-government--here-are-the-details) 2026-02-10T11:59Z 20.3M followers, [--] engagements "NEW in @nypost: "Make the @DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal whats really in Americas checkbook" by our CEO @johnhart333 cc: @elonmusk @MatthewTyrmand @NYPostOpinion https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1889470297461629159) 2025-02-12T00:23Z 20.5K followers, 10.7K engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: When Congress had an 11% approval rating the feds spent $426K studying how to make Indian politicians more popular. Because obviously our politicians didnt need the help. 😅" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2001759625528643667) 2025-12-18T21:01Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: The SBA rushed out $28.6B in COVID restaurant grants. Turns out $8.6B was likely improperincluding $552M sent to restaurants already flagged for likely fraud. Fraudsters dined and dashed. Taxpayers got stuck with the check" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2006211101113893293) 2025-12-31T03:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: The SBA rushed out $28.6B in COVID restaurant grants. Turns out $8.6B was likely improperincluding $552M sent to restaurants already flagged for likely fraud. Fraudsters dined and dashed. Taxpayers got stuck with the check" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2006212607741435983) 2025-12-31T03:55Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Open the Books already has the largest database of government spending in history. Now were building AI tools to turn raw data into pattern detection and real accountability. The future of transparency is here" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014364654189863388) 2026-01-22T15:48Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 Ghost students are real and theyre stealing real money. @nickshirleyy told Congress this week that Californias fraud may be even worse than Minnesota. We reported this months agoincluding stolen identities and fake enrollments draining taxpayer-funded aid" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014440971161809285) 2026-01-22T20:52Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @USDA: Big update for U.S. farmland transparency 🚜 USDA is streamlining reporting of transactions involving U.S. agricultural land by" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014739841053847902) 2026-01-23T16:39Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @DarrenBaileyIL: 🚨 INSANE: JB says he READ the audits. yet Illinois taxpayers only learned after the fact that BILLIONS were lost to fra" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014740427807556035) 2026-01-23T16:42Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance just revealed the Trump administration found $7 BILLION in fraud already in Gavin Newsoms California" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2014740581637820586) 2026-01-23T16:42Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: New York state overpaid hospitals bills by $19.3 million and didn't ask for a refund because what's an extra million here and there" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014754450322186550) 2026-01-23T17:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/23/waste_of_the_day_anthem_overspent_health_insurance_funds_1158799.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/23/waste_of_the_day_anthem_overspent_health_insurance_funds_1158799.html" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2014754452335382640) 2026-01-23T17:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @RandPaul: This must stop now. My bill will audit all welfare programs and include clawbacks from state allowing this fraud. But f" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2015201151373676995) 2026-01-24T23:12Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Who says zombies aren't real In [----] Congress funded [----] federal programs that had expired legal authorizations to receive taxpayer funding. Zombies live" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2015877424920006890) 2026-01-26T20:00Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/26/waste_of_the_day_zombie_programs_live_again_1160294.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/26/waste_of_the_day_zombie_programs_live_again_1160294.html" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2015877427000451356) 2026-01-26T20:00Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Taxpayers are the best auditors. @USDAs new fraud reporting portal crowdsources oversight of federal nutrition programs putting accountability where it belongs: in the publics hands. Let me be clear: fraud waste and abuse in taxpayer-funded nutrition programs will NOT be tolerated. And today we are giving the power to the people to help us with this mission. @USDA has launched a public fraud reporting link that YOU can use to help protect families https://t.co/oHwBdXgBrK Let me be clear: fraud waste and abuse in taxpayer-funded nutrition programs will NOT be tolerated. And today we are giving" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2015989774826230222) 2026-01-27T03:26Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Maryland should turn it ALL over and let federal investigators open the books at Maryland Department of Human Services. A state employee who billed taxpayers for massages and asked the vendor to disguise the charge still works for the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) the agency confirmed. DHS said it took appropriate action to hold staff accountable after determining the employee https://t.co/xQWIPbiNFr A state employee who billed taxpayers for massages and asked the vendor to disguise the charge still works for the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) the agency confirmed." [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016157643824398391) 2026-01-27T14:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 The Department of Me Senators earmarked $636 MILLION in taxpayer money for the universities they personally attended over 20% of all college earmarks this year. 😬 Link below" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016202446821876197) 2026-01-27T17:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-department-of-me-senators-earmark https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-department-of-me-senators-earmark" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016202448059142583) 2026-01-27T17:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: The State Department pushed $5.7B to international organizations while skipping basic fraud checks and audit requirements. "Trust us bro" vibes" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016580314097664312) 2026-01-28T18:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/28/waste_of_the_day_us-funded_international_groups_dont_have_to_report_fraud_1160303.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/28/waste_of_the_day_us-funded_international_groups_dont_have_to_report_fraud_1160303.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016580316354281886) 2026-01-28T18:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Public schools keep spending on the wrong things pouring more money into bureaucracy with less to show for it. More overhead better outcomes. Remember we landed on the moon without the Department of Education" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016618246653309234) 2026-01-28T21:03Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Read our report "The Public School Crisis: Higher Payrolls Associated with Worse Student Performance" https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-public-school-crisis-higher-payrollsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-public-school-crisis-higher-payrollsutm_source=publication-search" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016618247802470414) 2026-01-28T21:03Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Where theres smoke theres fire. And in Illinois theres so much smoke you cant breathe. This is exactly why we put Illinois daycare data out so the public can see for themselves. https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38783e21-01a2-4ec0-807b-01f44a89b87f.html https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38783e21-01a2-4ec0-807b-01f44a89b87f.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016644317482197334) 2026-01-28T22:47Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Read the data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016644761424179393) 2026-01-28T22:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: NIH handed out nearly $600000 to study why monkeys throw poop. Washingtons been flinging your tax dollars for years" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016921305073733694) 2026-01-29T17:08Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/29/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_monkeys_throw_poop_and_600k_1160314.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/29/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_monkeys_throw_poop_and_600k_1160314.html" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016921307263226057) 2026-01-29T17:08Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Some colleges report up to 50% fake enrollments in online classes. Thats tens of millions in stolen student aidlikely far more. We exposed how ghost students are gaming the system. (Link Below) Ghost students are signing up for student loans and grants pocketing the money and disappearing The problem is so out of control Department of Education Assistant Inspector General for Investigation says many as 1/3 of community college enrollments are ghost students https://t.co/koL9oRnJxy Ghost students are signing up for student loans and grants pocketing the money and disappearing The problem is so" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2016970947475947742) 2026-01-29T20:25Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Average earmark for senators own schools: $4.9 MILLION Average for everyone else: $3 MILLION I dont know about you but politicians shouldnt be padding their old campuses on your dime. 💸" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2018327487755751733) 2026-02-02T14:15Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 $75 BILLION surge in immigration enforcement but are taxpayers getting results ICEs budget tripled in one year. Deportations didnt. We broke down the real cost per deportation sweetheart contracts rushed training and where your money is going" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2018378972334072196) 2026-02-02T17:40Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Full investigation: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2018378974464782784) 2026-02-02T17:40Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Universities quietly skim 5060% in overhead off federal research grants. Thats $8.6 BILLION that didnt go to science; it went to bloated payrolls bureaucracy and admin sprawl" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2018764530755764416) 2026-02-03T19:12Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "While families are tightening their belts Mitch McConnell funneled $164.9 MILLION in earmarks to the universities he attended including $100 MILLION to the University of Louisville alone. The biggest college earmark in Congress this year" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2018834661862937041) 2026-02-03T23:51Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Los Angeles paid an activist group $1.2 million in city contracts. The group used some of that time to sue the citytwice. Taxpayers picked up both tabs" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2019090094762713444) 2026-02-04T16:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "If funding triples results should too. ICEs budget jumped from $9.2B to $28.75B but deportations fell FAR SHORT of matching the increase. Thats an ROI gap taxpayers deserve to understand fully" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2019204598527848656) 2026-02-05T00:21Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "❄ ICE funding surged but like most govt spending it wasn't without waste. Heres where ICE funding actually went 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2019788107881574519) 2026-02-06T14:59Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2019788111341814037) 2026-02-06T14:59Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Billy Beane changed baseball by asking better questions of the same data. Open the Books is doing the same for government spending. @InTheKnowAI" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2020502559610507564) 2026-02-08T14:18Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "While residents were snowed in Prince Georges County put [--] officials in a hotel for [--] nights. That's $43000 on the taxpayer tab including $18000 for AV. Crisis response More like comfort expense" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2020925607899525555) 2026-02-09T18:19Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: EPA rubber-stamped spending it never properly reviewed. [--] of [--] approved payments were improper totaling $63.2M with missing names no timesheets and no proof the work was ever approved" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2020977682599866515) 2026-02-09T21:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "CBS confirms: Most ICE arrests under the Trump administration were non-violent and 40% had no criminal record. Per our report the ICE budget has roughly tripled. It raises a basic question: are we getting more value for it We're assessing ROI on the ICE funding surge 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2021053919355617544) 2026-02-10T02:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "ROI: Return on ICE Investment What are Taxpayers Getting for their Spending Surge https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2021053955342729416) 2026-02-10T02:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "The Pentagon didnt end DEI. It hid it. Open The Books uncovered how DoD schools use contractors to push the same ideology. They are just relabeled to dodge oversight. We exposed the workaround workaround 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2021231971997806906) 2026-02-10T14:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Pentagons Secret Teacher Training Reveals Defiance of White House Directives Contractors as Backdoor to DEI: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagons-secret-teacher-training https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagons-secret-teacher-training" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2021231974602477872) 2026-02-10T14:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Washington State awarded $92.5M in digital inclusion grants without clear goals consistent data or meaningful oversight. Auditors found the program lacked basic accountability from application to payout" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2021302521491276215) 2026-02-10T19:17Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "#WasteOfTheDay: Massachusetts agencies and colleges spent $6.8M in taxpayer money to quietly settle employee grievances using NDAs that state guidelines prohibit. At least [--] settlements were partially secret shielding details the public has a right to know" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2022469671715242099) 2026-02-14T00:35Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Big conversation on @TheTonus with @paulballen about AI and the future of citizen oversight. At Open the Books were using AI to give taxpayers X-ray vision into government spending and build the tools to hold politicians accountable. Watch the full discussion 👇 We're using AI to create a renaissance of citizen engagement. The best way to thwart a surveillance state is to create a surveillance citizenry & build tools to hold politicians accountable. Great discussion @paulballen @TheTonus @open_the_books https://t.co/542e2pO8KA We're using AI to create a renaissance of citizen engagement. The" [X Link](https://x.com/open_the_books/status/2022706081927950787) 2026-02-14T16:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements "Perks Members Of Congress Give To Themselves The Selfie Report Quantifying U.S. taxpayer paid perquisites provided to members of Congress" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/05/29/perks-members-of-congress-give-to-themselves--the-selfie-report/) 2024-06-03T00:00Z 17.6K followers, [--] engagements "Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies Updated figures on guns and ammunition purchased by the Internal Revenue Service Health and Human Services Veterans Affairs Education Dept. Social Security Administration Small Business Administration the EPA and other paper-pushing administrative agencies" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/10/20/why-are-federal-bureaucrats-buying-guns-and-ammo-158-million-spent-by-non-military-agencies/) 2021-06-30T16:44Z 20.7M followers, [---] engagements "Dominion Voting Systems Received $120 Million From [--] States And [---] Local Governments To Provide Election Services (2017-2019) Dominion is the second largest vendor in the non-transparent and entrenched election system industry where three vendors control 88-percent of the market" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/12/08/dominion-voting-systems-received-120-million-from-19-states-and-133-local-governments-to-provide-election-services-2017-2019/) 2021-06-29T11:19Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To $392000 In [----] Seven lifeguards made more than $300000 and [--] lifeguards had total earnings that exceed $200000 in [----] the latest year available" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/27/top-paid-la-lifeguards-earned-up-to-392000-in-2019/) 2021-03-29T05:35Z 208.1M followers, [----] engagements "Why The U.S. Post Office Is In Trouble [------] Employees And A $9.2 Billion Loss In [----] The more USPS sells the more they lose. A $1 increase in revenues resulted in a $1.15 increase in costs during 2020" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/02/20/why-the-us-post-office-is-in-trouble--678539-employees-and-a-92-billion-loss-in-2020/) 2021-12-10T13:06Z 18.1K followers, 83.3K engagements "Wheres The Pork U.S. Taxpayers Funded A Lot Of Wasteful Spending (2017-2019) Feds gave two million grants for $2.3 trillion in the latest three-year period" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/30/wheres-the-pork-us-taxpayers-funded-a-lot-of-wasteful-spending-2017-2019/) 2024-06-03T00:00Z 18.1K followers, [--] engagements "The EPA Spends How Much On Office Furniture Try $92 Million Over The Past Decade Confronted with our data analysis andhard questions from the WashingtonTimes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tries to justify $92 million in mostly upscale furniture costs during the past decade. Data posted at OpenTheBooks.com shows that the Obama administration cut the number of EPA employeesby nearly [----] positions from [-----] to [-----] " [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2015/10/01/epa-supersizes-furniture-cost-while-downsizing-2000-employees/) 2015-10-01T20:56Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "How The Fortune [---] Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash $1 invested in lobbying returned $1000 in federal contracts and grants for the top [--] Fortune [---] companies (2014-2017)" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/05/14/how-the-fortune-100-turned-2-billion-in-lobbying-spend-into-400-billion-of-taxpayer-cash/) 2019-05-14T12:01Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "Mapping San Franciscos Human Waste Challenge - [------] Cases Reported In The Public Way Since [----] New mayor London Breed won election by promising to clean things up. However conditions are the same or worse. Last year the number of reports spiked to an all-time high at [-----]. In first quarter [----] the pace continued with [----] instances of human waste in the public way" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/) 2021-06-29T15:32Z 228.6M followers, [----] engagements "Trumps Leaner White House [----] Payroll Saved Taxpayers $23.5 Million Since [----] Trump saved U.S. taxpayers $23.5 million on White House payroll and has [--] fewer staffers than Obama at the same point in their presidencies" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/06/30/trump-further-honed-the-white-house-2020-payroll-and-saved-us-taxpayers-235-million-since-2017/) 2020-07-31T16:24Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Dr. Anthony Fauci Received Big Pay Increase To Prevent Pandemics Now we know that Dr. Fauci was specifically paid to prevent pandemics" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/10/20/dr-anthony-faucis-little-known-biodefense-work--its-how-he-became-the-highest-paid-federal-employee/) 2022-03-16T19:29Z 20.3M followers, [----] engagements "FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes The FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on confidential human sources between fiscal years [----] and 2018" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi-and-other-agencies-paid-informants-548-million-in-recent-years-with-many-committing-authorized-crimes/) 2022-04-21T12:12Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Oregon Gov. Kate Brown And AG Ellen Rosenblum Blaze The Oregon Trail Of Political Patronage Over [---] state contractors funded the political careers of Governor Kate Brown and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum who reaped $805876 in campaign cash since [----]. These businesses hold lifetime state contracts worth at least $2.6 billion" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/02/13/blazing-the-oregon-trail-of-pinstripe-patronage-gov-kate-brown-attorney-general-ellen-rosenblum/) 2017-02-19T13:34Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "Why So Secret The Federal Reserve Hides Nearly All [-----] Employee Salaries Its hard for American citizens to follow the money in Washington D.C. if the Federal Reserve the group overseeing its printing isnt being transparent" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/10/26/why-so-secret-the-federal-reserve-hides-nearly-all-23000-employee-salaries/) 2022-04-21T12:12Z 20.8M followers, [---] engagements "Bidens Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70000 To $700000 Did House dems sneak in an OSHA provision to enforce Bidens vax mandate" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/09/28/bidens-vax-mandate-to-be-enforced-by-fining-companies-70000-to-700000/) 2021-09-29T10:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Mapping The $100000+ California Public Employee Pensions At CalPERS Costing Taxpayers $3.0B In California according to data captured by OpenTheBooks.com the Top [--] All-Time CalPERS public employee pensions start at $390485 per year. The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) is the USAs largest pension fund with $301 billion in assets. Its also a lucrative transfer mec" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2016/11/26/mapping-the-100000-california-public-employee-pensions-at-calpers-costing-taxpayers-3-0b/) 2021-04-21T17:07Z 20.3M followers, [--] engagements "Why The City Of Seattle And Their Police Department Is In Trouble Seattle paid their police officers up to $414543 last year" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/06/23/why-the-city-of-seattle-and-their-police-department-is-in-trouble/) 2020-06-24T19:38Z 20.8M followers, [--] engagements "Brookings Institution -- The Progressive Jukebox Funded By U.S. Taxpayers Did Brookings lose its integrity as a think-tank when government became a $20 million donor The Case For Corruption (2014) published by a Brookings senior fellow advocated honest graft. Digging further we found an aggressive Brookings strategy pursued federal contracts & grants since 2008" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/06/02/brookings-institution-the-progressive-jukebox-funded-by-u-s-taxpayers/) 2021-08-21T19:25Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements "U.S. Senator William Proxmires Golden Fleece Award Turns [--] Years Old The most successful public relations device in politics today according to The Washington Post in the 1980s" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/06/30/us-senator-william-proxmires-golden-fleece-award-turns-46-years-old/) 2021-07-13T15:52Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements "Why San Francisco Is In Trouble [-----] Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150000+ In Pay & Perks A progressive utopia struggles to balance its books" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/01/why-san-francisco-is-in-trouble--19000-highly-compensated-city-employees-earned-150000-in-pay--perks/) 2020-09-09T19:06Z 20.3M followers, [---] engagements "Biden Reversed Trumps Foreign Aid Freeze To Expand Palestinian Funding$6.3 Billion Since [----] President Donald Trump cut the Palestinian aid to zero in [----] which had never been tried in the 71-year history of funding the region" [X Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/05/26/biden-reversed-trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-to-expand-palestinian-funding-63-billion-since-1950/) 2021-06-29T12:13Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. 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Social Influence
Social category influence finance celebrities countries cryptocurrencies ncaa football travel destinations us election stocks technology brands luxury brands
Social topic influence elon musk, books, money, doge, breaking, vivekgramaswamy, agencies, ceo, department of, in the
Top assets mentioned Dogecoin (DOGE)
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Why Washington D.C. Is In Trouble [----] Public Employees With $100000+ Salaries Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Will Congress bailout Washington D.C. for $3.2 billion"
X Link 2020-06-18T13:32Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Paid To Stay Home Coronavirus Aid Bill Pays Federal Employees With Kids Out Of School Up To $21K It is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers. Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats"
X Link 2021-02-25T02:02Z 20.3M followers, 23.5K engagements
"Read our full open letter to @elonmusk - Let's Build America's Checkbook cc @RepAaronBean @SenJoniErnst @PeteSessions @SpeakerJohnson @johnthune https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/02.05.25_MuskLetterJH_FINAL5.pdf https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/02.05.25_MuskLetterJH_FINAL5.pdf"
X Link 2025-02-12T00:23Z 19.3K followers, [---] engagements
"The Office of Refugee Resettlement has spent "$22.6 BILLION since [----] on nonprofits who were really incentivizing illegal immigration." -John Hart Open the Books CEO @johnhart333 via @LarsLarsonShow cc: @MatthewTyrmand @elonmusk @DOGE"
X Link 2025-02-14T23:14Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@elonmusk @DOGE We've asked @SocialSecurity for disbursements by age and state in FY24. No word yet but we will keep pressing for transparency on our end #FOIA wait times need to be improved so the work of DOGE can go on long past [----] According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 https://t.co/ltb06VX98Z According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to"
X Link 2025-02-17T16:57Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements
"via @brooketaylortv A division of HHS has spent $22.6B on migrants since [----] Our CEO John Hart says "it's a dollar that a family can't decide how they spend that money on their own. we've got to shift those dollars away from these wasteful programs." @FoxNews @FaulknerFocus cc: @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand @elonmusk @DOGE"
X Link 2025-02-17T17:07Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@ACTBrigitte We have all the details on ORR's $22B in grants for this stuff: $12.4B for unaccompanied minors (we know how that went) millions for small biz loans home & auto loans and much much more @ACTBrigitte @MatthewTyrmand @johnhart333 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only"
X Link 2025-02-17T23:00Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks to @OutnumberedFNC for spotlighting BILLIONS in grants to migrants -- everything from help with auto & home loans to small biz support to fixing their credit history @EmilyCompagno thank you for your kind words - more fresh data at all the time http://openthebooks.substack.com http://openthebooks.substack.com"
X Link 2025-02-18T14:20Z 19.7K followers, [----] engagements
"$22B from Office of Refugee Resettlement includes: ☑Help with home and auto loans ☑Credit history fixes ☑Small business loans and compliance tips & much more more. Details at our Substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only"
X Link 2025-02-18T17:06Z 19.6K followers, [---] engagements
"In which @DoDEA_Americas discusses replacing Social Emotional Learning with Resilience to avoid scrutiny from our organization & taxpayers. This fits a pattern of obfuscation around their DEI & SEL efforts. All the details from [--] years of investigation SCOOP: We obtained audio of a meeting between top officials at @DoDEA_Americas. They discuss their plans to rebrand "Social Emotional Learning" as "Resilience" to avoid publicbacklash.@doge https://t.co/LI1pVjPmHG SCOOP: We obtained audio of a meeting between top officials at @DoDEA_Americas. They discuss their plans to rebrand "Social"
X Link 2025-02-19T21:58Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements
"📈DAILY AGENCY DATA (1/2): From 2020-24 USAID got 218% bigger.but annual outlays 467.7% higher That's a lot of DEI for Serbian workplaces and trans comic books for Peru. @johnhart333 @DOGE @elonmusk"
X Link 2025-02-21T20:10Z 19.6K followers, [---] engagements
"We estimate taxpayers saved $141 BILLION during the earmark moratorium. Banning them refocuses Congress on sensible budgeting & helps realize even more savings. Let's restore an earmark ban - Congress is a critical piece of the efficiency movement. @DOGE @elonmusk"
X Link 2025-02-24T16:44Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"As @DOGE finds unemployment waste @USDOL IG says [--] states report overpaying $10.3 BILLION in Covid unemployment $676M in FRAUD. But auditors estimate another $25.3B state agencies failed to ID.💰came from the CARES Act. @elonmusk @MatthewTyrmand https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj https://shorturl.at/NH2kj"
X Link 2025-04-11T16:30Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Californias Capitol Annex was set to cost $543Mnow its $1.1B AND the new design includes hallways that shield lawmakers from journalists #WasteOfTheDay at @RCInvestigates by @JeremyPortnoy https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/06/waste_of_the_day_secrecy_surrounds_california_capitol_annex_1113315.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/06/waste_of_the_day_secrecy_surrounds_california_capitol_annex_1113315.html"
X Link 2025-06-06T18:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
""One of the reasons for putting this bill together was that Open the Books through a FOIA discovered that [----] NIH scientists received more than $300M in royalty payments during the last decade." - Sen. Dr. @RandPaul @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-34/ https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/business-meeting-34/"
X Link 2025-07-30T14:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"That figure climbed as NIH revealed more data after we took them to court. Royalties skyrocketed during Covid. From FY2010-2023 gov't scientists and NIH subsagencies took $2.685B from the private sector https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/new-first-more-foreign-companies"
X Link 2025-07-30T14:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"WASTE OF THE DAY: SBAs Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544M of improper payments during COVID but the SBA has not even tried to recover most of the funds a new IG audit found @RCInvestigates https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/08/06/waste_of_the_day_no_effort_to_claw_back_improper_covid_grants_1125969.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/08/06/waste_of_the_day_no_effort_to_claw_back_improper_covid_grants_1125969.html"
X Link 2025-08-08T17:40Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"WASTE OF THE DAY: Publicly funded Maine nonprofit pres. made $737K (10x the Governor of Maine's salary) in last [--] mos. on the job as organization complains its work being interrupted by Trump administration's grants cuts. @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/08/waste_of_the_day_maine_nonprofit_ceo_gets_big_payout_1133118.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/08/waste_of_the_day_maine_nonprofit_ceo_gets_big_payout_1133118.html"
X Link 2025-09-09T13:28Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"WASTE OF THE DAY: @NSF spent $429K helping hikers get their social media fix contributing to "documentary poem" podcasts about AK's national parks. Normally tax $$ are spent to preserve natural beauty itself. @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/11/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday__facebook_promotes_national_parks_1133126.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/11/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday__facebook_promotes_national_parks_1133126.html"
X Link 2025-09-12T13:06Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We've joined a coalition calling on Congress to again ban earmarks. Last time they did it saved taxpayers $140B in a decade Sen. Coburn called earmarks a "gateway drug to Washington's spending addiction." @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand @AmericanFreedom http://bit.ly/4psBYxs Ban Earmarks Again @AmericanFreedom @Mike_Pence. https://t.co/nKY9ULnwwt http://bit.ly/4psBYxs Ban Earmarks Again @AmericanFreedom @Mike_Pence. https://t.co/nKY9ULnwwt"
X Link 2025-09-18T19:23Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"🧵@SenJoniErnst transparency mission continues. She's asked @USOPM to address our finding that the Biden admin redacted identities of 350K+ federal employees locations for 281K. Read coverage from @mtapscott our joint @Newsweek op-ed & more"
X Link 2025-09-23T16:06Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"While almost 9M Americans work [--] jobs to make ends meet bureaucrats are taking home double the salary for [--] job. How is that fair https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/columns/ernst-bureaucrats-being-paid-for-multiple-jobs-while-doing-neither https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/columns/ernst-bureaucrats-being-paid-for-multiple-jobs-while-doing-neither"
X Link 2025-10-01T18:00Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@JDVance We reported SIREN got $772K from state of CA in 2023-24. They fight for migrant access to MediCal. 🤷♂ https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/california-pumped-tens-of-millionsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/california-pumped-tens-of-millionsutm_source=publication-search"
X Link 2025-10-02T13:56Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@JDVance Florida hospitals spent $566 million providing care for illegal immigrants in the last six months of [----] according to a recent report from the states Agency for Healthcare Administration. http://bit.ly/3IuYqpk http://bit.ly/3IuYqpk"
X Link 2025-10-02T13:59Z 20.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Baltimore County Public Schools are some of the worst in the country but that didn't stop the district from spending $613181 on catering massages private IMAX theaters TopGolf Dave & Busters personalized North Face hooded jackets and more. Is this what the kids call "failing up""
X Link 2025-10-03T13:00Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Meet Johnny Delawshaw. He's a suspended neurosurgeon raking in a $786K public pension the 2nd largest taxpayer-funded pension in Open the Books records. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_neurosurgeon_gets_786k_pension_1139810.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_neurosurgeon_gets_786k_pension_1139810.html"
X Link 2025-10-13T13:15Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: A SC sheriff embezzled $44K in federal funds and spent it on: 💊 Drugs 🚗 Car washes 🍩 Krispy Kreme 🧇 Waffle House 🥩 Steakhouses 🚬 Cigarettes 👨💻 Apps 📡 Sirius XM 👶 Hiring his son Even policemen are not above the law. Audit everything"
X Link 2025-10-15T13:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: An Alabama sherrif used the county "bingo fund" to lavish bonuses on employees and go to town at restaurants hotels automotive repair shops gas stations and grocery stores. The fund is supposed to be used to "benefit the public good/welfare." 🤔 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/20/waste_of_the_day_alabama_officials_get_bingo_bonuses_audit_1141456.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/20/waste_of_the_day_alabama_officials_get_bingo_bonuses_audit_1141456.html"
X Link 2025-10-20T14:16Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
""With the shutdown Chuck Schumer has taken himself hostage and is begging Trump to not shoot." @johnhart333 joins Matt Kittle on the @FDRLST podcast. Listen for more truth 💣 https://tinyurl.com/4cmm57mw https://tinyurl.com/4cmm57mw"
X Link 2025-10-20T17:01Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Another fiscal year is in the books and the national deficit for [----] is. $1.8 TRILLION according to @USCBO. That means the U.S. govt spent $1.8T more than it took in. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/22/waste_of_the_day_federal_deficit_is_almost_2_trillion_1141458.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/22/waste_of_the_day_federal_deficit_is_almost_2_trillion_1141458.html"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Paging @GavinNewsom. We covered San Fran's poop problem in [----] and 2023and it's still getting worse. https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-maputm_source=publication-search San Francisco Streets Are Dirtier; More Feces Graffiti than Last Year https://t.co/TCEc1NjsW0 via @BreitbartNews https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/updated-the-san-francisco-poop-maputm_source=publication-search San Francisco Streets Are Dirtier; More Feces Graffiti than Last Year https://t.co/TCEc1NjsW0 via @BreitbartNews"
X Link 2025-10-23T16:35Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The govt shutdown by the numbers: 💰It costs $400 million per workday to pay [------] furloughed nonessential workers 💰 [------] essential workers are working without pay 💰 Back pay is guaranteed for all impacted federal workers 💰 @Senjoniernst has a bill (Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act) to make back pay more transparent"
X Link 2025-10-24T13:09Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"📺SHUTDOWN WATCH: Just how many federal employees are in Texas You might be surprised to find out.Details on who where and how many are still getting paychecks"
X Link 2025-10-26T21:58Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay TBT: In [----] taxpayers paid the University of Notre Dame $802K to track cell phone usage of [---] college students. NIH joined the fun in [----] with a $3M study tracking students using wearable technology. What did we learn Stop wasting our money. 🔗 https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/30/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_tracking_college_students_1142639.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/30/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_tracking_college_students_1142639.html"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:48Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"RE: the debate about illegal immigrants benefitting from tax dollars for health care. @FDRLST in the lead covering our findings on nearly $200M in grants mentioning "undocumented" populations @MatthewTyrmand https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:52Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"- $18.7K for a USC study on disparities in end-of-life care in undocumented Hispanic immigrants. 2/3"
X Link 2025-10-30T21:22Z 20.3K followers, [--] engagements
"- $592K earmark to UCLA for a mobile healthcare program targeting people experiencing homelessness including illegal immigrants. 3/3"
X Link 2025-10-30T21:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Paging @Sec_Noem. again. DHS is spending $180 million to thank Pres. Trump for securing the border. The ads are narrated by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/31/waste_of_the_day_tv_ads_thank_trump_for_border_control_1142641.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/31/waste_of_the_day_tv_ads_thank_trump_for_border_control_1142641.html"
X Link 2025-10-31T16:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"TREAT US MADAM SECRETARY. Put the wasteful Department of Education in the grave. 🪦👻 More thoughts from us 👻 TRICK: Teachers Unions 🎃 TREAT: Closing the Department of Education 👻 TRICK: Teachers Unions 🎃 TREAT: Closing the Department of Education"
X Link 2025-10-31T19:14Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"ICYMI: A reminder on how much we're paying for furloughed workers NOT to work as the shutdown drags on"
X Link 2025-10-31T21:37Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Does govt spend taxpayer $ on illegal immigrants YES. Our latest report found $194M in earmarks/grants on healthcare spending for illegals. For example: $2.4M million to study the use of reproductive healthcare among Asian immigrant women. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3rx77ykr https://tinyurl.com/3rx77ykr"
X Link 2025-11-03T20:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay TBT: In [----] the U.S. unemployment rate was 9% but that didn't stop the federal govt from spending $1.4 million ($2M in today's $) to create jobs in. Barbados"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:40Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Does the federal govt spend money on illegal immigrants' health care Yes to the tune of $209 million in direct grants and earmarks"
X Link 2025-11-06T17:39Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Michigan offered Chinese company $715M in subsidies to build a $2.4B electric battery plant. After little progress Michigan pulled out of the deal but no word on whether the state will recoup its initial $23.6M investment"
X Link 2025-11-07T15:09Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Folks in NYC are going to find this out real soon. Well said @JohnHart33"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:25Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Admitting is the first step. 🚨 BREAKING: A STUNNING admission has just occurred on the Senate floor. Sen. Peter Welch (D) on Obamacare: "We DID fail to bring down the cost of healthcare There it is. Its their issue and now theyre begging Trump to clean up their mess. https://t.co/p1RuoFn8EI 🚨 BREAKING: A STUNNING admission has just occurred on the Senate floor. Sen. Peter Welch (D) on Obamacare: "We DID fail to bring down the cost of healthcare There it is. Its their issue and now theyre begging Trump to clean up their mess. https://t.co/p1RuoFn8EI"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"We opened the books & found $33M+ in taxpayer funds went to radical groups tied to Mamdani associates. Can we expect more in the next [--] years We'll be tracking NYC spending & policy outcomes in [----] and beyond. READ: cc @johnhart333 @MatthewTyrmand https://bit.ly/3WGPb91 https://bit.ly/3WGPb91"
X Link 2025-11-07T18:45Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Remember when Mamdani posed with terrorist sympathizer Siraj Wahhaj Our latest investigation shows his organization took more than $300K in govt funds. Today at Masjid At-Taqwa I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj one of the nations foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah. https://t.co/4kcN4CGlUk Today at Masjid At-Taqwa I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj one of the nations foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for"
X Link 2025-11-07T20:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Read more: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates"
X Link 2025-11-07T20:47Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
""Every dollar of SNAP benefits that goes to a criminal or someone that isn't here legally is a dollar not available to help someone that should receive it." - @johnhart333 talks waste fraud and Democrats' claims no federal $ go to illegal immigrants. @NEWSMAX @MatthewTyrmand"
X Link 2025-11-09T22:00Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Antisemitie Linda Sarsour is a Mamdani advisor and confidant. Her organizations raked in $4.1 million in govt $. How much will she get when Mamdani becomes mayor 🤔 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yc22y5tb KEEPING SCORE: Linda Sarsour warns she'll ensure Zohran Mamdani fulfills his campaign promises including dismantling an NYPD unit that polices terrorism threats protests and riots if he's elected. https://t.co/BGCCEonxBG https://tinyurl.com/yc22y5tb KEEPING SCORE: Linda Sarsour warns she'll ensure Zohran Mamdani fulfills his campaign promises including dismantling an NYPD unit that polices terrorism"
X Link 2025-11-10T00:00Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Surprise surprise. Radical groups tied to Zohran Mamdani have been raking in taxpayer money. Linda Sarsours Arab American Association of New York alone received $4.1 million between [----] and [----]. Why are we funding this rot with public dollars"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Read more: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:29Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"What we see from the left is this counterfeit compassion bigger subsidies bigger programs from Washington. If that was the solution wed have solved health care affordability and hunger decades ago. John Hart on @Newsmax"
X Link 2025-11-10T17:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: What's a $750 bidet between taxpayers Former Utah State University President Elizabeth Cantwell went on a $661K spending spree with taxpayer money including the aforementioned bidet several cars a golf cart & a $250K office renovation"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:27Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#MappingTheSwamp digs into the entire federal workforceExecutive Branch DOD and USPSand the math is wild. Headcount creeps up 5% since [----] but payroll rockets 24%. Washingtons not growing in people just in price"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:14Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#MappingTheSwamp shows obscure agencies cutting staff by 6% 18% even 75%yet payrolls STILL rise as much as 30% or even 61%. Fewer employees. Bigger budgets. All hidden in a murky and bloated swamp"
X Link 2025-11-15T16:22Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"You cant run a $100B program with [------] dead recipients on the rolls and expect no audit. Every dollar spent this way is a dollar unavailable to those who need it. Open the books @SecRollins. 🚨 BREAKING: To end MASSIVE SNAP fraud the Trump administration is forcing EVERY recipient to verify they cannot "survive without it." [------] THOUSAND recipients getting SNAP twice. [------] THOUSAND DEAD PEOPLE getting SNAP. Holy smokes. CRIMINAL. https://t.co/3m0kMmEAMd 🚨 BREAKING: To end MASSIVE SNAP fraud the Trump administration is forcing EVERY recipient to verify they cannot "survive without it.""
X Link 2025-11-17T16:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#MappingTheSwamp: In Washington doing more with less means spending more with less. Multiple major agencies lost staff since [----] but nearly all of them increased payroll anyway. Only the swamp can shrink and grow at the same time"
X Link 2025-11-17T18:16Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Houston city employees spent $5 million refueling city-owned cars at commercial gas stations even though Houston owns its own fuel stations with much cheaper rates. Employees also spent $557K on premium fuelwhich is against the law"
X Link 2025-11-17T21:09Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Mamdani's friends & advisors got millions in taxpayer money from 2017-2024 including a nonprofit previously led by antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour"
X Link 2025-11-18T14:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#MappingTheSwamp Payroll up. Headcount up. Transparency DOWN. Washington has redacted [---] million federal workersthe most in U.S. history. Open the Books explains the collapse in oversight:"
X Link 2025-11-18T20:44Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Taxpayers keep doling out more federal $ on education and test scores keep dropping. Time to end the racket. Power stripped from Education Department in latest Trump administration move to dismantle it https://t.co/LfCm480Wf8 Power stripped from Education Department in latest Trump administration move to dismantle it https://t.co/LfCm480Wf8"
X Link 2025-11-19T19:06Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Forget opening. Its time we close the books on the Department of Education. @Linda_McMahon BREAK UP THE FEDERAL EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY. https://t.co/iVoiHyEr5Q BREAK UP THE FEDERAL EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY. https://t.co/iVoiHyEr5Q"
X Link 2025-11-19T23:26Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#MappingTheSwamp: Fauci is gone but the swamp replaced him with a new top-paid employee at NIH for $519246. AND they ballooned the top pay bands by 82%. Washington protects its ownunless we stop it"
X Link 2025-11-20T13:45Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Exactly right @BasedMikeLee. Earmarks wasted billions and gave politicians way too many chances to trade favors. When the ban was in place taxpayers saved an estimated $140 billion over a decade @johnhart333 Earmarks are bad because they direct tax dollars to exclusive projects and individual usethe definition of reckless spending So Senate Republicans adopted a policy banning them in [----] That policy is still in place Senate Republicans should honor that ban Share if you agree https://t.co/wIR7FXZkvW Earmarks are bad because they direct tax dollars to exclusive projects and individual usethe"
X Link 2025-11-21T14:26Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Capitalism works. Bureaucracy doesnt. Were spending $1B/day attacking the system that builds prosperity. @JohnHart333 on @NEWSMAX"
X Link 2025-11-21T17:31Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: DHS spent $220 MILLION on public service ads and $143M of it quietly flowed to a brand-new Delaware LLC tied to Kristi Noems political allies. The agency still cant explain why a crisis at the border required cowgirl commercials on TV. 🤠"
X Link 2025-11-24T19:28Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Chicago Public Schools blew $14.6 MILLION jet-setting staff to Egypt Hawaii Finland South Africa and Vegas. Meanwhile the district is $10B in debt and barely [--] in [--] students can read at grade level. ✈"
X Link 2025-11-25T21:18Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"DOJ just convicted two brokers in a $233M Obamacare scamfake incomes bogus apps and millions laundered into luxury homes. And yet the ACA still racks up $15B/yr in improper payments. Fraud is the tip of the iceberg"
X Link 2025-11-26T00:57Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"For 40+ years @usedgov spent more and delivered less: 👉 Per-pupil spending +245% 👉 ED budget +449% 👉 Scores flat 👉 60% of 4th graders below basic reading @EDSecMcMahon it's time to slam this bureaucracy straight through the mat"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:33Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Throwback Thursday to when DHS spent taxpayer dollars on [--] Sno-Cone machines for counterterrorism. Yes$11700 so a western Michigan office could fight heat exhaustion (and maybe Al Qaeda) with blue raspberry ice. 🍧"
X Link 2025-11-27T21:53Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: While Congress refuses to get federal spending under control taxpayers are footing the bill for their Teslas Lexuses $1000-a-month car leases and six-figure mileage tabs. One staffer billed [--] trips around the planet. 🚗"
X Link 2025-11-28T22:57Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#ShutdownSpendingSpree: @SenBooker secured $350000 for a 65-foot elephant statue from [----] thats been running for president struck by lightning and rented on Airbnb. Just why"
X Link 2025-11-29T21:55Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"You know its bad when your own DHS staff are the ones blowing the whistle. Tim Walz didnt stop the fraudhe allegedly punished the people who tried. Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats repression Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no we got the opposite"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:42Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"ICYMI: The Education Department spent $4 trillion and gave us lower test scores bloated payrolls and grants to Chinese companies. @johnhart333 lays it out in @nypost: https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/opinion/trumps-education-dept-fight-strikes-a-mortal-blow-to-big-government/ https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/opinion/trumps-education-dept-fight-strikes-a-mortal-blow-to-big-government/"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:51Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: The terrorist-aligned CAIR received $30.8 million in federal state and local taxpayer dollars since [----] most of it coming from California. Terrorists win Americans lose"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:19Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
".@foxnews featured our new report revealing federal spending per person has surged nearly 10000% since [----]. This is what runaway government looks like. 😬"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:13Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: A new program that gives unlimited free phone calls to MA prisoners cost taxpayers $12.5 million in [----]. How B/c many inmates are using the calls to plan new criminal activity"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:02Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Happening at 2:30 PM: @johnhart333 is testifying in the U.S. Senate on Running Government Like a Small Business. Expect receipts: ➡ $20k+ federal spending per person ➡ SBA loans to yacht clubs & luxury spas ➡ [-----] feds making $200k+ Watch live: https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearingsID=41D31259-5DBB-46AE-A95A-174D21F48B17 https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearingsID=41D31259-5DBB-46AE-A95A-174D21F48B17"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:26Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Put simply American taxpayers deserve more bang for their buck along with the accountability tools to make it happen. @johnhart333 Instead of doing more with less the government does less with more- Hart Instead of doing more with less the government does less with more- Hart"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Read how the government is doing less with more in our latest substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/federal-government-spending-20474 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/federal-government-spending-20474"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:17Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Watch @johnhart333 explain how AI can deliver real oversight by spotting patterns predicting risks and catching misuse early. Open the Books is building the tools to do exactly that with the largest spending dataset ever assembled. CC: @SenJonHusted"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"At yesterday's Senate Small Business Committee hearing @johnhart333 exposed staggering SBA failures: ➡ $645M in loans to kids under [--] and people over [---] ➡ $105M to country and yacht clubs Republicans say the SBA is rife with waste fraud and abuse. Hard to disagree"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:12Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"The White House says the Noem firing rumors are total Fake News. Can we get a statement on all the real newslike how her friends have made out beautifully at DHS https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-calls-report-about-trump-considering-firing-noem-total-fake-news https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-calls-report-about-trump-considering-firing-noem-total-fake-news"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:36Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"ICYMI: @johnhart333 testified before the Senate on waste fraud and government accountability. Here are the highlights"
X Link 2025-12-15T20:19Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Lose the game win the jackpot. 🏈💸 Taxpayers are on the hook for $228 MILLION in severance for fired college football coaches this year alone and $1 BILLION since [----]. Turns out the only guaranteed win in college football is the buyout"
X Link 2025-12-16T19:53Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
".@SenJoniErnst strikes again w/ her Where's WALDO Act after our "Mapping the Swamp" report showed the swamp getting bigger richer & more secretive. Where's WALDO will force the gov to develop a directory of all federal workers & contractors. Finding Waldo shouldn't be so hard https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-employees-hot-seat-gop-senator-pushes-transparency-historic-opportunity https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-employees-hot-seat-gop-senator-pushes-transparency-historic-opportunity"
X Link 2025-12-18T18:08Z 20.4K followers, [----] engagements
"How bad is govt spending growth In [----] the federal govt spent $216 per person. In [----] it spent $20474 per person. ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION"
X Link 2025-12-22T22:01Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: In [----] USDA spent $75000 reminding people to buy Christmas trees. For Christmas. In December. Apparently centuries of human tradition needed a federal nudge. 🎄"
X Link 2025-12-26T01:47Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"More federal research money than ever. Less reliable science"
X Link 2025-12-27T14:52Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] Open the Books exposed how Tim Walzs Minnesota paid out billions with no explanationcontracts grants settlements all blurred together. Today the FBI says Minnesota fraud is the tip of a very large iceberg. Let's blow the lid on everything"
X Link 2025-12-29T16:58Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As a Minnesota's MASSIVE fraud scheme unfolded Rep. Ilhan Omar went from nearly broke to declaring $6$30M in assets. In that time she's backed looser oversight promoted a now-convicted fraud site and had campaign ties to fraudsters. We need transparency and accountability here. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006025278032629825 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006025278032629825"
X Link 2025-12-30T15:31Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"We've reported on Covid aid fraud or years AND the troubling inability to claw back funds once they're gone. It's about time for this robust response. Over the last week SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota. Today our agency took action to suspend [----] Minnesota borrowers amid suspected fraudulent activity. In total these borrowers were approved for Over the last week SBA has reviewed thousands of potentially fraudulent pandemic-era PPP and EIDL loans approved in Minnesota. Today our agency took action to suspend 6900"
X Link 2026-01-02T18:14Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"From $925 BILLION in improper payments to millions paid to retired bureaucrats government waste didnt slow down in [----]. We tracked it all. Read our top [--] Most Popular Waste Investigations of 2025"
X Link 2026-01-03T22:16Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Accountability isnt partisan. When leaders allow taxpayer dollars to be funneled into fraud waste or abuse there are consequences no matter the party. Every elected official in every party is on notice"
X Link 2026-01-05T19:11Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Taxpayers are now funding up to [--] weeks of paid leave in MN$1420 per weekunder a law with NO GUARDRAILS. You can even designate almost anyone as a care recipient while enforcement runs on the honor system. Big money. No oversight. You do the math"
X Link 2026-01-06T15:27Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: A Connecticut nonprofit got $2.8M to help low-income families pay winter heating bills. Turns out the money was used for its own operating expensesand the checks to the utility bounced. The only ones who stayed warm this winter were the fraudsters. 🥶"
X Link 2026-01-07T01:37Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"HHS is closing a Biden-era loophole that allowed child care providers to be paid before services were delivered or attendance was verified. Restoring basic controls protects taxpayers working families and children"
X Link 2026-01-07T17:15Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Washington rang in [----] with $1.6 TRILLION in wasteful spending flagged in @RandPauls annual Festivus report including bug-eating research drunk ferret experiments and video games about the year [----]. Serenity now"
X Link 2026-01-07T19:49Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"When states sue to block SNAP data requests it raises one simple question: what are they hiding Programs that work dont fear sunlight. .@PressSec is absolutely right. Here at @USDA protecting taxpayer dollars means ZERO tolerance for fraud. Every day we are asking hard questions demanding transparency and enforcing accountability in the SNAP program so that benefits go to eligible American families and .@PressSec is absolutely right. Here at @USDA protecting taxpayer dollars means ZERO tolerance for fraud. Every day we are asking hard questions demanding transparency and enforcing"
X Link 2026-01-08T15:38Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Congratulations to @timburchett on being named Chair of the House DOGE Subcommittee. You have a real opportunity to turn DOGE into lasting reform. Let's make the DOGE revolution stick"
X Link 2026-01-12T14:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"As @johnhart333 put it make the DOGE revolution stick https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/"
X Link 2026-01-12T14:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The Minnesota daycare scandal proves one thing: transparency works. Citizen journalists exposed what government oversight missed. Now Open the Books has released nationwide daycare spending data so anyone can follow the money. Go fish. 🎣👇"
X Link 2026-01-13T19:17Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Read our latest Substack: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-13T19:17Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Open the Books analyzed CCDF spending from the top [--] recipient states and searched nationwide for any publicly funded entity with daycare in the nameacross all spending categories. If fraud exists this is how you find it"
X Link 2026-01-14T14:42Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-14T14:43Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Oil and gas companies are supposed to pay royalties from drilling on federal land. But the Dept. of Interior doesn't have the time to make sure companies are paying what they owe"
X Link 2026-01-14T21:32Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Our CEO @johnhart333 joined @TPPF @RealBPhil to talk about the biggest fraud story in recent memory the Minnesota daycare scandal. Plus how to stop fraud before it starts and the future of government transparency. Full episode: https://www.texaspolicy.com/multimedia/article/stop-government-fraud-before-it-starts-open-the-books-ceo-john-hart-the-right-idea-ep-105 "Transparency cuts through government like water cuts through stone. The flow can seem unremarkable and mundane but over time when it finds cracks it can wipe away mighty walls of opposition." https://t.co/TgYbQQWJxc"
X Link 2026-01-15T18:04Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"We want to crowdsource oversight. That's why we published state daycare funding data so journalists and citizens can see where the money went and knock on doors themselves"
X Link 2026-01-15T21:45Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"See the data for yourself: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-15T21:45Z 20.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Yep that was us 😅 Appreciate shoutout from @RandPaul on @joerogan. Billions in royalties flowed to government scientists and we helped expose it. Litigation continues with our partners @JudicialWatch to force full disclosure"
X Link 2026-01-16T16:33Z 20.5K followers, 54.2K engagements
"Heres the full story of our yearslong effort to uncover the secret royalty scheme happening among NIH and private entities including pharmaceuticals. https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/impact-paul-ernst-advance-royalty https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/impact-paul-ernst-advance-royalty"
X Link 2026-01-16T20:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Maryland's SNAP program costs $22M but is rife with fraud and abuse with a 14% payment error rate"
X Link 2026-01-16T21:04Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"What separates America from Communist China is simple: we can actually look at the books. And we are going to keep on looking"
X Link 2026-01-18T15:15Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The internet is this eras printing press putting power in the hands of everyday people. Thats why we just published a searchable database of taxpayer-funded daycare centers so citizens can investigate for themselves. @johnhart333 on @TPPF"
X Link 2026-01-19T15:57Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Explore the data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-19T15:58Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: North Carolina claims 30% of lottery ticket revenue funds public schools but a new audit shows that's a L-I-E. Time to invest more in math skills perhaps"
X Link 2026-01-20T01:50Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Open the Books exists so everyday Americans can follow the money ask hard questions and expose fraud. Use our data. Ask questions. Be the next Nick Shirley"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Check out our data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/state-of-the-state-schoolsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/state-of-the-state-schoolsutm_source=publication-search"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"2/ We audited [--] major public universities. What we found: Exploding DEI payrolls Growing DEI staff headcounts DEI-driven investment priorities Public dollars funding radical ideological programs"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"🔗 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/transparency-crisis-a-black-box-of https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/transparency-crisis-a-black-box-of"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"4/ Example: the University of Virginia quietly approved a $970 million decade-long DEI plan while undercounting how many DEI staff it actually employs. Billion-dollar political agendas hidden behind academic branding. This is the crux of the issue"
X Link 2026-01-20T23:30Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"🚨 NEW: Federal grants meant to STOP school violence are being redirected to defray the costs of illegal immigration. One DOJ grant admits an influx of migrant families coincided with a 119% spike in school arrests. This is a misuse of taxpayer dollars"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:11Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Read our latest report: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/school-system-federal-grantees-say https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/school-system-federal-grantees-say"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:11Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @SenJoniErnst: SNAP plays an essential role in helping feed needy families. Every dollar stolen from SNAP is food taken from a hungry c"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:21Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"👻 Ghost Students Still Collecting Fraudulent Federal State Aid: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/ghost-students-still-collecting-fraudulent https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/ghost-students-still-collecting-fraudulent"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:52Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay #TBT: USAID had good intentions when it sent $52 million to Afghanistan but a large portion was lost to waste and fraud including rodent infestation"
X Link 2026-01-23T04:35Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 Read more on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/22/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_rats_ate_afghani_aid_1158796.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/22/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_rats_ate_afghani_aid_1158796.html"
X Link 2026-01-23T04:36Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @open_the_books: 🚨 NEW: Federal grants meant to STOP school violence are being redirected to defray the costs of illegal immigration. On"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:38Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @jchristenson_: Scoop: @HHSGov has warned Minnesota it could have to repay hundreds of millions in federal dollars if the state keeps re"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:38Z 20.5K followers, [--] engagements
"President Donald Trump Probably Donated His Entire $1.6M Salary Back To The U.S. Government Here Are The Details We verified fourteen of the sixteen quarterly donations during Trump's four year term"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:59Z 20.3M followers, [--] engagements
"NEW in @nypost: "Make the @DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal whats really in Americas checkbook" by our CEO @johnhart333 cc: @elonmusk @MatthewTyrmand @NYPostOpinion https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/opinion/make-doge-stick-let-taxpayers-monitor-americas-checkbook/"
X Link 2025-02-12T00:23Z 20.5K followers, 10.7K engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: When Congress had an 11% approval rating the feds spent $426K studying how to make Indian politicians more popular. Because obviously our politicians didnt need the help. 😅"
X Link 2025-12-18T21:01Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: The SBA rushed out $28.6B in COVID restaurant grants. Turns out $8.6B was likely improperincluding $552M sent to restaurants already flagged for likely fraud. Fraudsters dined and dashed. Taxpayers got stuck with the check"
X Link 2025-12-31T03:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: The SBA rushed out $28.6B in COVID restaurant grants. Turns out $8.6B was likely improperincluding $552M sent to restaurants already flagged for likely fraud. Fraudsters dined and dashed. Taxpayers got stuck with the check"
X Link 2025-12-31T03:55Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Open the Books already has the largest database of government spending in history. Now were building AI tools to turn raw data into pattern detection and real accountability. The future of transparency is here"
X Link 2026-01-22T15:48Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 Ghost students are real and theyre stealing real money. @nickshirleyy told Congress this week that Californias fraud may be even worse than Minnesota. We reported this months agoincluding stolen identities and fake enrollments draining taxpayer-funded aid"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:52Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @USDA: Big update for U.S. farmland transparency 🚜 USDA is streamlining reporting of transactions involving U.S. agricultural land by"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:39Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @DarrenBaileyIL: 🚨 INSANE: JB says he READ the audits. yet Illinois taxpayers only learned after the fact that BILLIONS were lost to fra"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:42Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance just revealed the Trump administration found $7 BILLION in fraud already in Gavin Newsoms California"
X Link 2026-01-23T16:42Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: New York state overpaid hospitals bills by $19.3 million and didn't ask for a refund because what's an extra million here and there"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/23/waste_of_the_day_anthem_overspent_health_insurance_funds_1158799.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/23/waste_of_the_day_anthem_overspent_health_insurance_funds_1158799.html"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @RandPaul: This must stop now. My bill will audit all welfare programs and include clawbacks from state allowing this fraud. But f"
X Link 2026-01-24T23:12Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Who says zombies aren't real In [----] Congress funded [----] federal programs that had expired legal authorizations to receive taxpayer funding. Zombies live"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:00Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/26/waste_of_the_day_zombie_programs_live_again_1160294.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/26/waste_of_the_day_zombie_programs_live_again_1160294.html"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:00Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Taxpayers are the best auditors. @USDAs new fraud reporting portal crowdsources oversight of federal nutrition programs putting accountability where it belongs: in the publics hands. Let me be clear: fraud waste and abuse in taxpayer-funded nutrition programs will NOT be tolerated. And today we are giving the power to the people to help us with this mission. @USDA has launched a public fraud reporting link that YOU can use to help protect families https://t.co/oHwBdXgBrK Let me be clear: fraud waste and abuse in taxpayer-funded nutrition programs will NOT be tolerated. And today we are giving"
X Link 2026-01-27T03:26Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Maryland should turn it ALL over and let federal investigators open the books at Maryland Department of Human Services. A state employee who billed taxpayers for massages and asked the vendor to disguise the charge still works for the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) the agency confirmed. DHS said it took appropriate action to hold staff accountable after determining the employee https://t.co/xQWIPbiNFr A state employee who billed taxpayers for massages and asked the vendor to disguise the charge still works for the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) the agency confirmed."
X Link 2026-01-27T14:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 The Department of Me Senators earmarked $636 MILLION in taxpayer money for the universities they personally attended over 20% of all college earmarks this year. 😬 Link below"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-department-of-me-senators-earmark https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-department-of-me-senators-earmark"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:31Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: The State Department pushed $5.7B to international organizations while skipping basic fraud checks and audit requirements. "Trust us bro" vibes"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/28/waste_of_the_day_us-funded_international_groups_dont_have_to_report_fraud_1160303.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/28/waste_of_the_day_us-funded_international_groups_dont_have_to_report_fraud_1160303.html"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:33Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Public schools keep spending on the wrong things pouring more money into bureaucracy with less to show for it. More overhead better outcomes. Remember we landed on the moon without the Department of Education"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:03Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Read our report "The Public School Crisis: Higher Payrolls Associated with Worse Student Performance" https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-public-school-crisis-higher-payrollsutm_source=publication-search https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-public-school-crisis-higher-payrollsutm_source=publication-search"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:03Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Where theres smoke theres fire. And in Illinois theres so much smoke you cant breathe. This is exactly why we put Illinois daycare data out so the public can see for themselves. https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38783e21-01a2-4ec0-807b-01f44a89b87f.html https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38783e21-01a2-4ec0-807b-01f44a89b87f.html"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:47Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Read the data: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/minnesota-daycare-scandal-the-power"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: NIH handed out nearly $600000 to study why monkeys throw poop. Washingtons been flinging your tax dollars for years"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:08Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔗 More on today's Waste: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/29/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_monkeys_throw_poop_and_600k_1160314.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/29/waste_of_the_day_throwback_thursday_-_monkeys_throw_poop_and_600k_1160314.html"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:08Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Some colleges report up to 50% fake enrollments in online classes. Thats tens of millions in stolen student aidlikely far more. We exposed how ghost students are gaming the system. (Link Below) Ghost students are signing up for student loans and grants pocketing the money and disappearing The problem is so out of control Department of Education Assistant Inspector General for Investigation says many as 1/3 of community college enrollments are ghost students https://t.co/koL9oRnJxy Ghost students are signing up for student loans and grants pocketing the money and disappearing The problem is so"
X Link 2026-01-29T20:25Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Average earmark for senators own schools: $4.9 MILLION Average for everyone else: $3 MILLION I dont know about you but politicians shouldnt be padding their old campuses on your dime. 💸"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:15Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 $75 BILLION surge in immigration enforcement but are taxpayers getting results ICEs budget tripled in one year. Deportations didnt. We broke down the real cost per deportation sweetheart contracts rushed training and where your money is going"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:40Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Full investigation: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:40Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Universities quietly skim 5060% in overhead off federal research grants. Thats $8.6 BILLION that didnt go to science; it went to bloated payrolls bureaucracy and admin sprawl"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:12Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"While families are tightening their belts Mitch McConnell funneled $164.9 MILLION in earmarks to the universities he attended including $100 MILLION to the University of Louisville alone. The biggest college earmark in Congress this year"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:51Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨 #WasteOfTheDay: Los Angeles paid an activist group $1.2 million in city contracts. The group used some of that time to sue the citytwice. Taxpayers picked up both tabs"
X Link 2026-02-04T16:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If funding triples results should too. ICEs budget jumped from $9.2B to $28.75B but deportations fell FAR SHORT of matching the increase. Thats an ROI gap taxpayers deserve to understand fully"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:21Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"❄ ICE funding surged but like most govt spending it wasn't without waste. Heres where ICE funding actually went 👇"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:59Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:59Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Billy Beane changed baseball by asking better questions of the same data. Open the Books is doing the same for government spending. @InTheKnowAI"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:18Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"While residents were snowed in Prince Georges County put [--] officials in a hotel for [--] nights. That's $43000 on the taxpayer tab including $18000 for AV. Crisis response More like comfort expense"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:19Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: EPA rubber-stamped spending it never properly reviewed. [--] of [--] approved payments were improper totaling $63.2M with missing names no timesheets and no proof the work was ever approved"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:46Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"CBS confirms: Most ICE arrests under the Trump administration were non-violent and 40% had no criminal record. Per our report the ICE budget has roughly tripled. It raises a basic question: are we getting more value for it We're assessing ROI on the ICE funding surge 👇"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"ROI: Return on ICE Investment What are Taxpayers Getting for their Spending Surge https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/roi-return-on-ice-investment-what"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:49Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The Pentagon didnt end DEI. It hid it. Open The Books uncovered how DoD schools use contractors to push the same ideology. They are just relabeled to dodge oversight. We exposed the workaround workaround 👇"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Pentagons Secret Teacher Training Reveals Defiance of White House Directives Contractors as Backdoor to DEI: https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagons-secret-teacher-training https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagons-secret-teacher-training"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:37Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Washington State awarded $92.5M in digital inclusion grants without clear goals consistent data or meaningful oversight. Auditors found the program lacked basic accountability from application to payout"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:17Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"#WasteOfTheDay: Massachusetts agencies and colleges spent $6.8M in taxpayer money to quietly settle employee grievances using NDAs that state guidelines prohibit. At least [--] settlements were partially secret shielding details the public has a right to know"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:35Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Big conversation on @TheTonus with @paulballen about AI and the future of citizen oversight. At Open the Books were using AI to give taxpayers X-ray vision into government spending and build the tools to hold politicians accountable. Watch the full discussion 👇 We're using AI to create a renaissance of citizen engagement. The best way to thwart a surveillance state is to create a surveillance citizenry & build tools to hold politicians accountable. Great discussion @paulballen @TheTonus @open_the_books https://t.co/542e2pO8KA We're using AI to create a renaissance of citizen engagement. The"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:14Z 20.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Perks Members Of Congress Give To Themselves The Selfie Report Quantifying U.S. taxpayer paid perquisites provided to members of Congress"
X Link 2024-06-03T00:00Z 17.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies Updated figures on guns and ammunition purchased by the Internal Revenue Service Health and Human Services Veterans Affairs Education Dept. Social Security Administration Small Business Administration the EPA and other paper-pushing administrative agencies"
X Link 2021-06-30T16:44Z 20.7M followers, [---] engagements
"Dominion Voting Systems Received $120 Million From [--] States And [---] Local Governments To Provide Election Services (2017-2019) Dominion is the second largest vendor in the non-transparent and entrenched election system industry where three vendors control 88-percent of the market"
X Link 2021-06-29T11:19Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To $392000 In [----] Seven lifeguards made more than $300000 and [--] lifeguards had total earnings that exceed $200000 in [----] the latest year available"
X Link 2021-03-29T05:35Z 208.1M followers, [----] engagements
"Why The U.S. Post Office Is In Trouble [------] Employees And A $9.2 Billion Loss In [----] The more USPS sells the more they lose. A $1 increase in revenues resulted in a $1.15 increase in costs during 2020"
X Link 2021-12-10T13:06Z 18.1K followers, 83.3K engagements
"Wheres The Pork U.S. Taxpayers Funded A Lot Of Wasteful Spending (2017-2019) Feds gave two million grants for $2.3 trillion in the latest three-year period"
X Link 2024-06-03T00:00Z 18.1K followers, [--] engagements
"The EPA Spends How Much On Office Furniture Try $92 Million Over The Past Decade Confronted with our data analysis andhard questions from the WashingtonTimes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tries to justify $92 million in mostly upscale furniture costs during the past decade. Data posted at OpenTheBooks.com shows that the Obama administration cut the number of EPA employeesby nearly [----] positions from [-----] to [-----] "
X Link 2015-10-01T20:56Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"How The Fortune [---] Turned $2 Billion in Lobbying Spend Into $400 Billion of Taxpayer Cash $1 invested in lobbying returned $1000 in federal contracts and grants for the top [--] Fortune [---] companies (2014-2017)"
X Link 2019-05-14T12:01Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Mapping San Franciscos Human Waste Challenge - [------] Cases Reported In The Public Way Since [----] New mayor London Breed won election by promising to clean things up. However conditions are the same or worse. Last year the number of reports spiked to an all-time high at [-----]. In first quarter [----] the pace continued with [----] instances of human waste in the public way"
X Link 2021-06-29T15:32Z 228.6M followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps Leaner White House [----] Payroll Saved Taxpayers $23.5 Million Since [----] Trump saved U.S. taxpayers $23.5 million on White House payroll and has [--] fewer staffers than Obama at the same point in their presidencies"
X Link 2020-07-31T16:24Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Dr. Anthony Fauci Received Big Pay Increase To Prevent Pandemics Now we know that Dr. Fauci was specifically paid to prevent pandemics"
X Link 2022-03-16T19:29Z 20.3M followers, [----] engagements
"FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes The FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on confidential human sources between fiscal years [----] and 2018"
X Link 2022-04-21T12:12Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Oregon Gov. Kate Brown And AG Ellen Rosenblum Blaze The Oregon Trail Of Political Patronage Over [---] state contractors funded the political careers of Governor Kate Brown and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum who reaped $805876 in campaign cash since [----]. These businesses hold lifetime state contracts worth at least $2.6 billion"
X Link 2017-02-19T13:34Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Why So Secret The Federal Reserve Hides Nearly All [-----] Employee Salaries Its hard for American citizens to follow the money in Washington D.C. if the Federal Reserve the group overseeing its printing isnt being transparent"
X Link 2022-04-21T12:12Z 20.8M followers, [---] engagements
"Bidens Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70000 To $700000 Did House dems sneak in an OSHA provision to enforce Bidens vax mandate"
X Link 2021-09-29T10:59Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Mapping The $100000+ California Public Employee Pensions At CalPERS Costing Taxpayers $3.0B In California according to data captured by OpenTheBooks.com the Top [--] All-Time CalPERS public employee pensions start at $390485 per year. The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) is the USAs largest pension fund with $301 billion in assets. Its also a lucrative transfer mec"
X Link 2021-04-21T17:07Z 20.3M followers, [--] engagements
"Why The City Of Seattle And Their Police Department Is In Trouble Seattle paid their police officers up to $414543 last year"
X Link 2020-06-24T19:38Z 20.8M followers, [--] engagements
"Brookings Institution -- The Progressive Jukebox Funded By U.S. Taxpayers Did Brookings lose its integrity as a think-tank when government became a $20 million donor The Case For Corruption (2014) published by a Brookings senior fellow advocated honest graft. Digging further we found an aggressive Brookings strategy pursued federal contracts & grants since 2008"
X Link 2021-08-21T19:25Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements
"U.S. Senator William Proxmires Golden Fleece Award Turns [--] Years Old The most successful public relations device in politics today according to The Washington Post in the 1980s"
X Link 2021-07-13T15:52Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Why San Francisco Is In Trouble [-----] Highly Compensated City Employees Earned $150000+ In Pay & Perks A progressive utopia struggles to balance its books"
X Link 2020-09-09T19:06Z 20.3M followers, [---] engagements
"Biden Reversed Trumps Foreign Aid Freeze To Expand Palestinian Funding$6.3 Billion Since [----] President Donald Trump cut the Palestinian aid to zero in [----] which had never been tried in the 71-year history of funding the region"
X Link 2021-06-29T12:13Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements
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