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Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, said on CBS News on Sunday that politicians should not spend taxpayer funds on promotional ads.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Courtesy of “the greatest gift that the American taxpayer has ever given the world,” as one navigation executive put it, GPS is, these days, invisible infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The proposition states its purpose is to make sure that “programs are delivering results, and that taxpayer dollars are not being lost to inefficiency, waste or abuse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Journal also reported that the ads were paid for with taxpayer dollars that Congress appropriated to Homeland Security for Customs and Border Protection, an agency that regularly runs ads about immigration policies.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
But you know, I AM entitled to a complimentary bus ride home at taxpayer expense.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
Those savings are not small potatoes: The skin substitutes cost taxpayers billions, and the figure has risen dramatically since before the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The report’s recommendations include studying technologies to implement preventive controls and working toward ensuring that taxpayers are notified of unauthorized access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The so-called Games Agreement laid out a “shared set of values” and called for an operating budget that would be “prudent, realistic, and designed to protect taxpayers by mitigating financial risk.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The end result is that victims of crime – and taxpayers, who have to pay for these huge white-collar investigations and trials – are often left with nothing.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Previous systems had been—as they are today—a huge strain on taxpayers; from its beginning, Sing Sing had been conceived of as a moneymaking venture.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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