Migrants are caught in the middle as rival companies Salus Worldwide Solutions, GEO Group and CSI Aviation fight over immigration enforcement contracts worth billions of dollars. Read the latest investigation by @schwellenbach.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigates...

DHS Contractors Battle Over Deportation Dollars

Migrants are caught in the middle as rival companies fight over immigration enforcement contracts while alleging the procurement system is rigged.

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The Trump administration claims we’re in a new war with Iran that justifies a reset of the 60-day War Powers Resolution clock. Neither claim is true says @pogo.org Constitution Project head David Janovsky www.pogo.org/commentaries...

The War Clock Never Stopped

The Trump administration claims we’re in a new war with Iran that justifies a reset of the War Powers Resolution clock. Neither claim is true.

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15 former federal inspectors general sign a letter urging Congress to reject a bill that would weaken IGs and make government less accountable and efficient. Read the letter: www.pogo.org/policy-lette...

Former IGs to Congress: Protect CIGIE’s Independence

15 former inspectors general oppose legislation to abolish the IG coordinating body and consolidate control of federal oversight within the Executive Office of the President

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PERSON OF THE DAY. 30 July 1958. Singer-songwriter Kate Bush was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. She was 1st woman to have a self-composed UK No 1 hit with Wuthering Heights. Bush was born on the 140th anniversary of the birth of the author who inspired her song, Emily Brontë.

Read the new report by @pogo.org senior defense policy analyst @virginiajburger.bsky.social, The American Military’s Center of Gravity: What Operation Epic Fury revealed about munitions procurement www.pogo.org/reports/the-...

The American Military’s Center of Gravity

What Operation Epic Fury revealed about munitions procurement.

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I am elated to share that I have a new album galloping earthward at reckless pace. The Braid comes out October 2nd on digital and limited vinyl pressing.  The first song, The Pleasure Seekers, is out now. Available on streaming platforms and @bandcamp.com ziemba.bandcamp.com/album/the-br...

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Fact Checker/Editor at Project On Government Oversight

Founded in 1981 in partnership with whistleblowers, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that works to expose waste, corruption, abuse of power, and other i...

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NEW REPORT by @pogo.org: More than 74% of federal grant funds can't be tracked to the local level—that's $712.6 billion in taxpayer money. But there are ways to fix that. www.pogo.org/reports/trac...

Tracking Taxpayer Dollars: Fixing a Flawed System for Federal Spending Data

A review of USAspending.gov data reveals significant problems tracking spending to the local level, but there are fixes available.

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NEW INVESTIGATION by @ziembavision.bsky.social: Military families struggle to find affordable housing due to Jones Lang LaSalle, a company that serves simultaneously as the Pentagon's housing watchdog and its real estate advisor www.pogo.org/investigates...

How a Military Housing Watchdog Games the System

As military families struggle to find affordable and safe housing, a real estate behemoth lines its pockets.

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Tomorrow at 10 am ET: @pogo.org Acting VP of Policy & Government Affairs @veritasdhg.bsky.social testifies in the Senate about government fraud. Also testifying: conservative influencer Nick Shirley and right-wing activist James O'Keefe www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/exp...

The White House dismissed @pogo.org's story on the FY27 Pentagon budget, claiming allegations of influence peddling and criticisms of several weapons programs came from political opponents “who clearly suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.” www.pogo.org/investigates...

Trump Derangement Syndrome

ALT: Trump Derangement Syndrome

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The Pentagon's record-breaking $1.5 trillion budget seeks big spending increases for a slew of troubled programs and will be a bonanza for the top defense contractors. @pogo.org's @schwellenbach.bsky.social‬ and I examine the implications: www.pogo.org/investigates...

$1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget Benefits Top Contractors

Despite rhetoric about embracing innovation and new companies, the Pentagon’s $1.5T budget request boosts troubled programs and contracting giants.

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As you prepare to celebrate July4th, remember what the first Independence Day was all about: refusing to accept an unaccountable monarch’s abuses of power and ensuring the government answers to the people it’s meant to serve. www.pogo.org/analyses/ame...

America's First Big Idea Was Accountability

We must uphold the promise made in our founding documents.

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The @pogoinvestigates.bsky.social team is hiring a Senior Investigative Reporter to cover federal policy and oversight issues—election subversion, war profiteering, corruption, regulatory capture, abuses of power—and their impact on marginalized communities pogo.breezy.hr/p/994a94987d...

Here are 5 methodologies for calculating annual U.S. defense spending. While the total amount produced by each method differs, they all support one key conclusion: U.S. military spending has long been radically underestimated www.pogo.org/reports/the-...

The True Total U.S. Military Budget

There are several ways to calculate the true cost of our military. All add up to at least $1.5 trillion — and that's before the proposed half-trillion-dollar increase.

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The Pentagon is illegally concealing footage of the Sept. 2, 2025 strike on a boat in the Caribbean that reportedly shows the military killing shipwrecked survivors. @pogo.org will continue its fight to release the footage www.pogo.org/press-center...

Pentagon Refuses Legal Demand to Release Video That Reportedly Shows U.S. Military Killing Shipwrecked Survivors

POGO Investigates will continue its legal effort to make this footage public via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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One thing that has come out of the war in Iran? Proof that the Pentagon has spent billions of your tax dollars on weapons systems that are failing to meet the needs of modern war. More from @virginiajburger.bsky.social:

Exquisite Defense Fails in Practice

Operation Epic Fury has revealed the (expensive) gaps in U.S. defense capabilities.

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: @pogo.org will serve as the new home for the Center for Public Integrity’s (CPI) archives and intellectual property www.pogo.org/press-center...

Project On Government Oversight to Preserve the Center for Public Integrity's Archives

The newly announced asset transfer will ensure CPI’s 30+ years of investigative reporting remains accessible to the public and impacts the future of watchdog journalism

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We condemn the administration’s latest attack on non-profits. Read our full statement:

President Trump is Weaponizing the DOJ Against Prominent Civil Rights Organization

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) condemns the administration’s latest attack on non-profits

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New guidance from OMB Director Russell Vought is the latest in a broader effort to undermine GAO, Congress’s watchdog. It will undermine government efficiency, weaken accountability, and risk more waste across federal programs www.pogo.org/analyses/omb...

OMB’s Latest Attempt to Sideline GAO

The administration’s continued attacks on GAO undermine government efficiency, weaken accountability, and risk more waste across federal programs.

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Why a Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget Won’t Buy Victory in Iran: A conversation with @pogo.org Senior Defense Policy Analyst @virginiajburger.bsky.social www.pogo.org/analyses/why...

Why a Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget Won’t Buy Victory in Iran

Sending ground troops to Iran raises new risks and emphasizes the need to return to rational defense budgets that better serve our foreign policy.

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While Elon Musk’s DOGE said they were rooting out federal waste, fraud, and abuse, Pam Bondi's DOJ declined over 900 cases of federal program or contract fraud. In total, the DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases from Jan. to July 2025 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

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Under the new Schedule Policy/Career rule, thousands of federal workers will soon lose due process rights. Tell Congress to pass a law negating the impact of the rule and closely monitor how agencies are protecting whistleblowers www.pogo.org/analyses/con...

Congress Can Shield Whistleblowers from Schedule Policy/Career

Without an independent enforcement mechanism available to whistleblowers, Congress needs to empower them to fight retaliation in the courts.

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This expansive and searching song was born on a long drive from NYC to LA, and I think a bit of that endless road is still alive inside of it. My song The Perfect Rose is now yours. too.fm/bbyljx2

The Perfect Rose

Listen to The Perfect Rose

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Years after Edward Snowden’s shocking revelations of mass surveillance, a declassified report found the NSA continued to violate the rules governing warrantless searches of Americans’ electronic communications. www.pogo.org/investigates...

Declassified Report Reveals NSA Broke Surveillance Rules

Critics urge Congress to reform the government’s controversial Section 702 surveillance authority given past incidents and the risks to civil liberties.

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Kristi Noem is (almost) out at DHS but her luxury jet remains in government hands, leased from a company linked to a Noem campaign donor who has other big DHS contracts despite a lack of experience. By @schwellenbach.bsky.social and @dfriedman.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigates...

Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet”

The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

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🚨New blockbuster investigation by @pogo.org and @texasobserver.org: Military families battle to hold a Texas housing empire accountable www.pogo.org/investigates...

Inside the Fight for Safe Military Housing

Military families battle to hold a Texas housing empire accountable

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I got a tip yesterday that migrants in detention are having a hard time using ICE’s hotline to report sexual assaults happening within detention facilities. So I decided to call up the hotline myself. Here’s what I learned. [THREAD]

Calling all DHS #whistleblowers.... Congress's watchdog arm, the Government Accountability Office, wants to hear from you. @pogo.org SCOOP: www.pogo.org/investigates...

DHS Treatment of Whistleblowers Under Investigation by GAO

The review seeks firsthand experiences from Department of Homeland Security whistleblowers from both Trump administrations and the Biden administration.

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