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The claim that U.S. Senators receive is not supported by the recent federal per-diem publications; current federal Meals & Incidental Expenses (M&IE) rates referenced in 2024–2026 updates are , typica...
Two contemporaneous compilations identify a string of senior career and political officials who resigned from federal posts in 2025 during President Trump’s administration, but accounts vary on who co...
Reporting shows no widely published accounts of worker casualties or high-profile on-site safety incidents tied to the White House ballroom renovation; coverage instead focuses on the rapid demolition...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative public database for federal contracts and shows hundreds of companies with active awards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); prominent names that ...
The firms contracted to build the new White House ballroom are principally known not as social-event specialists but as heavy-hitters in federal, commercial and infrastructure construction and enginee...
At least 670,000 federal employees were furloughed during the 2025 shutdown, while roughly 730,000 additional employees were required to work without pay, according to contemporaneous agency contingen...
The claim that rests on two discrete assertions: that President Obama’s projects — notably an indoor basketball court — incurred negligible cost, and that President George W. Bush’s administration pai...
Federal agencies and positions exempt from a shutdown fall into two main buckets: operations funded outside annual appropriations (like the U.S. Postal Service and certain benefit programs) and whose ...
Federal civilian pay adjustments are typically set by the President in late-year guidance and take effect the first full pay period in January; for 2025 an executive order implemented a 1.7% across‑th...
The name "Coalition for Common Sense in Government" is used by more than one organization and grouping in U.S. public life; most commonly it refers either to the Coalition for Common Sense in Governme...
Governments and vendors are rolling out phoneless, biometric, and physical alternatives so people without smartphones can still access digital services; BIO-key markets “phoneless, tokenless” biometri...
For VA means tests in 2025, deductible medical expenses are the out‑of‑pocket, non‑reimbursed costs that VA allows to be subtracted from countable income — examples include payments for doctors, denti...
House Republicans have proposed hundreds of policy riders across 2025 appropriations drafts that range from social policy rollbacks to budget and border-security measures; many are described as unrela...
Private donations to projects connected to the White House are governed by a patchwork of statutory rules, administrative regulations, and practice-based safeguards that distinguish between gifts to t...
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vehicles and GSA schedules create a two-step procurement picture: agencies award a master contract that establishes terms, then place task or delivery or...
Publicly available, official procurement records specifically documenting Oval Office renovations since 2025 are not surfaced in the reporting provided; what is publicly visible in these sources are p...
The Real ID regime combines state-level technical and physical safeguards—document verification, employee background checks, physical security of production sites, and machine‑readable security featur...
Local economies along the southern border have experienced a mix of immediate fiscal strains, labor-market shifts, and federal investments tied to migration flows during the Biden administration; part...
For independently verifying presidential travel and public activity, the most reliable contemporaneous sources are official travel lists maintained by the Department of State’s Office of the Historian...
Public, declassified primary-source documentation of actual evacuations to the White House bunker (the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, or PEOC) is limited but real: the 9/11 Commission’s rec...