Author: Robert Schmad

Nonprofit hospitals responsible for performing thousands of sex change operations on children have been raking in billions of dollars in public funding every year, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found. The Washington Examiner identified 15 hospitals performing a considerable number of transgender surgeries and prescribing large quantities of “gender-affirming” hormones using a…

The Department of Defense set aside millions of dollars under the Obama, first Trump, and Biden administrations to provide services to transgender people, a Washington Examiner review of grant records has found. The Washington Examiner identified over $5.4 million in Pentagon grants and contracts earmarked for transgender accommodations and research, with a significant portion of…

EXCLUSIVE — A web of closely linked nonprofit groups funded by the premier dark money networks of the Left are working in the shadows to insert pro-Palestinian materials into their massive network of public school classrooms dotted across the country. The trio of liberal education groups, able to conceal key information by exploiting nonprofit laws,…

Although the Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that it has saved American taxpayers $55 billion, data reporting procedures at the federal government make it impossible to know precisely how many taxpayer dollars DOGE has actually saved. Critics quickly accused DOGE of inflating the value of contracts it deemed wasteful after the office claimed…

The Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid could provide China with an opening to expand its global sphere of influence, some policy experts representing anticorruption, national defense, and conservative organizations told the Washington Examiner. Others, however, agree with the president’s position that waste is a problem in U.S. foreign aid worth addressing with cuts. On…

Elon Musk, who has significant business ties to China, has directed operatives working for his Department of Government Efficiency to cut funding to the National Endowment for Democracy, a federally funded nonprofit group that does extensive work countering Chinese influence. NED has long funded groups working to combat the Chinese Communist Party by exposing its…

A shadowy organization that Republicans have long accused of laundering foreign money into the American electoral system poured tens of millions of dollars into liberal groups during the 2024 election, new tax filings show. The Berger Action Fund, a public advocacy group founded by Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, transferred $34.4 million to the Sixteen Thirty…

Joe Manchin is headed to K Street. The former West Virginia senator, who switched from Democrat to Independent in 2024, has agreed to join Bondi Partners, an Australia-based consultancy and lobbying firm, the company announced on Friday. Manchin will be joining the firm, whose clients include an array of trade associations and Australian companies, as…

A constellation of nonprofit organizations collectively receiving billions of dollars from government agencies such as U.S. Agency for International Development shower their executives with lucrative compensation, luxury travel, generous contracts for family members, and top-tier office spaces, a Washington Examiner review of public records found. The government has tasked prominent nongovernmental organizations such as ACDI/VOCA,…

President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government and rein in wasteful spending have been stymied by a slate of judges with long histories of liberal judicial activism. As part of its effort to improve government efficiency, the Trump administration has moved to restrict grant disbursals through the Treasury Department payment…