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Yes. Several U.S. presidents have given away their presidential pay rather than keeping it: Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy donated their full presidential salaries to charity, and Donald Trump ple...
Federal reporting and local trial coverage show dozens of convictions and multiple long prison sentences in Minnesota’s sprawling COVID-era and social-services fraud prosecutions; some defendants also...
Recent USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits and investigative reports document both systemic vulnerabilities and concrete instances of fraud and bribery: OIG audits found internal-control de...
Available reporting shows no verified public record that Joel Osteen has been the subject of a federal criminal prosecution or an IRS criminal investigation; he has been questioned by local police in ...
Available reporting identifies Phil Godlewski primarily as an independent content creator and entrepreneur who promotes “precious metals” services and runs paid community channels; some commercial pro...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 delivered a mixed bag for Black-owned small businesses: it created a new 20% deduction for many pass‑through owners and lowered the corporate rate—measures tha...
The CARES Act created a mix of direct grants, forgivable loans that could convert to grants, and large loan and guarantee authorities; major, traceable grant lines included roughly $150 billion for st...
The 2025 federal government shutdown produced widespread, measurable disruptions: , key non-essential services were suspended, and some benefits and federal transfers faced delays or altered processin...
Donald J. Trump publicly pledged and, by multiple contemporaneous reports, donated most of his presidential salary across 2017–2020 to federal agencies, with outlets reporting roughly $1.4 million to ...
Donald Trump publicly announced donating portions of his presidential salary to causes including White House renovations, and news reports and historical nonprofit recipients indicate those donations ...
are illicit schemes that use stolen or fabricated personal data ("fullz") to apply for loans or grants and cash them out through prepaid cards, cash apps, or drop accounts; researchers and private-sec...
Allegations that “fake” daycare centers are siphoning taxpayer dollars in Minnesota have prompted federal and state probes after a viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley alleged millions i...
The claim that the proportion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in all U.S. enterprises has been “gradually decreasing since the 1980s” cannot be accepted or rejected as a simple fact on ...
Several Trump administration rollbacks — from broad “10-for-1” deregulation orders to targeted rollbacks of environmental and vehicle-emissions rules — were framed by the White House and allied advoca...
Congress’s stopgap spending bill and longstanding law together promised retroactive pay for roughly 1.4 million federal workers affected by the 43‑day 2025 shutdown, covering both furloughed employees...
Small businesses holding COVID-era EIDLs face long repayment terms (up to 30 years) and low fixed rates (3.75% for for‑profits, 2.75% for nonprofits), with many loans only beginning repayment after mu...
President Trump assembled a largely conservative, loyalty-heavy second-term Cabinet with rapid confirmations for several controversial picks — including Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary and Robert F....
Multiple, high-profile legal challenges and congressional responses followed the Biden-to-Trump 2025 push to reclassify and substantially shrink the U.S. Department of Education; courts—including the ...
The largest proposed cuts vary by plan: the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request targets the , while both the administration and House Republican appropriations proposals put multi‑dozen percent...
The 2024 U.S. federal government shutdown produced a on economic activity, primarily through lost federal spending, delayed payments and services, and reduced pay for furloughed workers; estimates pla...