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Belt & Road Watch is The Investigative Journal’s monthly tracker of China’s overseas infrastructure, lending, and influence activity. Figures and financing terms are drawn from public records, academic datasets, and…
Federal lobbying hit a record $1.4 billion in the first quarter of 2026 after an unprecedented $5.08 billion in 2025, with Trump-aligned firms like Ballard Partners dominating K Street.
A USPS inspector general audit estimates counterfeit stamps cost the Postal Service more than $349 million in fiscal 2026, capping a year of escalating fraud warnings.
GAO says U.S. debt now rivals the economy — and an audit found the watchdog over inspectors general missing nearly every legal deadline this week.
EPA Watch is TIJ's weekly enforcement review: Union Pacific's $155,234 PCB settlement, a proposed $308,173 penalty against Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, criminal guilty pleas over falsified Texas wastewater data, two…
Brookings on Social Security, Cato on Trump Accounts, Tax Foundation on tariffs and Heritage on the FY2027 defense budget—this week in policy research.
TIJ tests four claims from the past week — on inflation, the Iran strikes, the border and ACA premiums — against BLS, IAEA, CBP and CBO data.
TIJ's weekly Watchdog Roundup: Russia's shadow-fleet 'watchmen,' an EPA methane rollback tied to a donor, 770,000 children off SNAP, and a 42-state OpenAI subpoena.
The SEC moves to repeal its 2005 Order Protection Rule and CMS codifies Medicare drug-price negotiation in a deregulation-heavy week of federal rulemaking.
GAO found the Integrity Committee that polices inspectors general missed nearly every legal deadline, as the CFTC paid $8M to whistleblowers and the SEC penalized Foot Locker over award-waiver clauses.