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Budget Watchdog All Federal — 115 episodes
100 Cents on the Dollar: National Debt Crosses a Historic Threshold
Drilling Won't Fix Gas Prices. Here's the Math.
The President's FY2027 Budget Request
Flood Insurance Realities
Iran, War Powers, and the Budget
The Farm Bill Lives
Trump Tariff Takedown
Why Golden Dome is Bad for American Taxpayers
Short Shutdown
Pentagon Plus-Up: Trump's $1.5 Trillion Defense Proposal
Inside the $12 Billion Farm Bailout
FEMA Reform: Billion-Dollar Disasters and the Push for Taxpayer Protection
Half a Billion and Counting: The Hidden Cost of National Guard Deployments
Shutdown Postmortem
The Antideficiency Act, Explained
TCS Turns 30
Government Shutdown Countdown
NDAA 2026 and Pentagon Accountability
20 Years After Katrina: Are We Still Paying Premium Prices for Poor Planning?
Up in Smoke: The Methane Waste Crisis Costing Taxpayers Billions
Rule by Tariff: When Trade Policy Meets Wishful Thinking Economics
Who Pays When Disaster Strikes, Now?
Warrior's Right to Repair - When Military Equipment Breaks, Who Gets to Fix It?
Feeding the World Without Frying the Planet with Michael Grunwald
One Big Beautiful Bill, Many Ugly Problems
Are Tariffs Offsetting the New Tax Cut? What the CBO Report Really Says
Base Instincts - The Case for Military Base Closures
Big Beautiful Bill: Trump's $5 Trillion Gamble
Slashing and Shifting: Inside President Trump's FY2026 Budget Proposal
Warrior Ethos vs. Taxpayer Reality: The Pentagon's Waste Paradox
Fiscal Smoke and Mirrors
Tariffs and Tax Cuts: The Hidden Cost of 'Liberation Day'
Beyond the CR: How Congress Ceded Power
Farms First Again?
DOGE Needs to Hunt for Real Budget Savings
Reconciliation Roulette: Congress's High-Stakes Budget Game
What Happened with the CR
Reality Check: Can Elon Musk's Team Really Cut $2 Trillion in a Year?
Lame Duck, Big Bucks: Congress's Last-Minute Spending Sprint
Pumping Profits or Storing Carbon? Oversight Gaps in Carbon Capture Subsidies
Helene's High Cost
USACE Boondoggle
Dear Elon
Pentagon's Unsustainable Spending: The Sentinel ICBM and Next-Gen Fighter Dilemma
CBO Bombshell
Pentagon Budget Update (NDAA & UPLs)
Farm Bill
National Defense Authorization Act Update
Earmarks Update
Who Pays When Disaster Strikes?
FY '25 Budget Request
Impasse
2024 Farm Bill Update
War Footing: National Defense Industrial Strategy
Back to the Brink
Crop Insurance Subsidies
Fiscal Commission
Budget Crisis
Halloween Special
National Security Spending Update
Shutdown Avoided or Postponed?
Hail Mary Pass? Or Fiscal Fumble?
Oil and Gas Update with Russell Kuhlman, Nevada Wildlife Federation
Deadline Pressure
Downgraded
Farm Bill: Succeeding Without Subsidies
Adding to the Climate Tab
Biofuels Subsidies: Climate Nightmares Masquerading as Climate Solutions with author & journalist Michael Grunwald
Paying the Price
Debt Limit
Wendy Jordan: Budget Hero
Suspend, Raise or Default
Clearing the Smoke
Moral Hazard and F-35 Alternate Engine
Budget, Oversight and Transparency
CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: 2023 to 2033
Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule
Farm Bill Field Trip
Taxpayers Guide to the 118th Congress
Year-in-Review
Best Bad Option
Budgetary Wildcard
Lame Duck a l'Orange
Halloween Special
CBO Report on FY22 Federal Budget Deficit
Why CRs Are Bad for Taxpayers
Venting & Flaring
Why Disaster Dollars Are Different
Oil & Gas Leasing and the IRA
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
National Defense Authorization Act
Fireworks, Beaches and Bridges
Combating Inflation
The Farm Bill with Special Guest Dr. Joe Glauber
America's Gold Giveaway
Gas Prices & Common Sense Climate Solutions
President Biden's Budget
Omnibus and Earmarks, Oh My!
SOTU (aka Super Bowl of Politics)
Sweet Talk
Doubling Down on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors and Truth About the DOD Budget
State of Play 2022
Oil & Gas Lobbying Report
ABCs of the BCA
Fiscal Illusions, Fuzzy Math and All Aboard!
Extra Money and More Credit
Taxpayers' Fair Return
Earmark Renaissance | Preview of Biden's FY '22 Budget
Wading Through Federal Disaster Policy and Programs
Climate Change Special
Biden's Skinny Budget Request
Infrastructure and the American Jobs Plan
Legacy Weapon Systems and Biden's Pentagon Budget
American Rescue Plan & Budget Justification Transparency Act
Federal Oil and Gas Leasing