26,000 Kids Just Lost Their Lawyers. Nobody Voted On That.
A federal contract funding legal help for unaccompanied immigrant children quietly expired on a Friday, and more than 25,000 kids lost representation by Monday. This is what happens when accountability fights get settled by procurement paperwork instead of a vote.
The Government Lost a $23 Billion Case. Most People Still Haven’t Heard About It.
A federal court just forced the Department of Education to honor the largest class-action settlement against the U.S. government in history — $23 billion in student debt relief for roughly 450,000 borrowers. Here’s why that’s an accountability story, not a partisan one.
Everybody Suddenly Cares About Corruption. Convenient Timing.
Democrats are pushing anti-corruption reform as a check on the administration while Congress hauls Anthony Fauci back for a COVID-19 accountability hearing. Marcus Hart on why real accountability can’t be selective — or seasonal.
Georgia Spent $54 Million Proving a Point About Medicaid Work Requirements. It Only Spent $26 Million Helping People.
A federal watchdog report found Georgia’s Medicaid work-requirement experiment spent more than twice as much on bureaucracy as it did on actual medical care — and Washington just extended it anyway. This is what accountability looks like when nobody’s actually watching.
Five Thousand Troops, No End Date: What the National Guard’s Permanent D.C. Presence Actually Costs
The Pentagon has confirmed National Guard troops will stay in Washington, D.C. through Inauguration Day 2029 — at more than $3 million a day. Marcus Hart asks the question neither party wants to answer: what is the actual return on that investment, and who decided a “temporary” deployment gets to last four years?