U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that its new verification process found $99 million in payments for deceased recipients.
The department said that it screened over 885 million payments totaling approximately $2.77 trillion, and discovered more than 4,900 payments worth approximately $99 million that were intended for deceased payees. Those 4,900 payments were returned to the federal agencies they came from for review before any funds were disbursed.
“Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s mandate to stop improper payments and fraud before money leaves the Treasury, and strengthen the integrity of the federal payment system,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. Continue reading
Parents and caregivers raising a child with disabilities often carry the emotional challenges of caregiving alongside constant decisions about safety, schooling, and services. The core tension is simple and heavy: parental incapacity or death can transfer responsibility overnight, and without special needs child care planning, critical supports can be delayed, disputed, or lost. Long-term care provisions and future legal planning are not about expecting the worst; they are about reducing uncertainty and protecting a child’s day-to-day stability. Understanding the special needs guardianship importance is a first step toward making care enforceable rather than informal. 
The United States recorded a $1.373 trillion federal budget deficit during the first nine months of fiscal year 2026, averaging approximately $153 billion in new borrowing each month. Revenue climbed to $4.151 trillion, but federal spending rose faster, reaching $5.523 trillion between October and June.
Every few months, gold or silver rips higher, and every few months the Wall Street Journal runs the same piece: a skeptical think-tank economist explaining why “this time isn’t different,” a chart showing gold’s “poor risk-adjusted returns” versus the S&P 500, and a closing paragraph reminding readers that metals pay no dividend. Rinse, repeat. It’s not an accident. 
Did you know that the number of Americans that are out of work right now is far higher than it was at any point during the Great Recession? I know that sounds crazy, but I will prove it to you in this article. A whopping 111 million Americans do not have a job, and we are spending more than a trillion dollars a year on the social safety net that supports them. Of course we cannot afford to do this, because the national debt has already reached 39 trillion dollars and it is growing at an astounding rate.
