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POGO’s experts push policymakers to enact commonsense reforms that tackle waste, corruption, and abuse of power; hold those who’ve violated the public trust accountable; protect our constitutional rights; and make the government work for all people.

  1. Collage of the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the seal of the U.S. president, and a group of soldiers.
    Analysis

    Congress Must Reclaim and Reassert War Power

    The Constitution is clear: Congress, not the president, should be the branch deciding when our nation goes to war. 

  2. Collage of an F-35, the Pentagon, a businessman fixing his tie, and a hundred dollar bill.
    Analysis

    Congressional Oversight of Defense Spending

    The 119th Congress can improve the way it oversees the development and acquisition of major weapons and other systems.

  3. Collage of a lineup of broken down F-35s, the Pentagon, and the cover of the DOT&E assessment report of the F-35.
    Analysis

    F-35 Testing Report Reveals Problems with Production Decisions

    The decision to enter full rate production on the flawed F-35 shows that current statutes do not support sufficient congressional oversight.

  4. Collage of a map of the U.S., a handcuffed person, an inmate, and sets of numbered data.
    Analysis

    How States Are (and Aren’t) Collecting Death-In-Custody Data

    What we learned reviewing states’ plans for complying with the Death in Custody Reporting Act.

  5. Collage of a menacing eye, protestors with hands raised, riot police, a drone, security cameras, a blurred man's face, a social media post, a protestor holding a megaphone, and the Constitution.
    Analysis

    Protest Under a Surveillance State Microscope

    Modern surveillance technology allows the government to target protests in new and alarming ways.

  6. Collage of a surveilling eye, an upset woman, security cameras, the Supreme Court, cuffed hands, a phone, a frustrated doctor, and location trackers on a map.
    Analysis

    Surveillance & Policing Bodily Autonomy

    After Dobbs, states can use the tools of the surveillance state to enforce anti-abortion laws. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

  7. Collage of a businessman with a small Pentagon peeking out of his pocket fixing his tie while standing in a waist-high sea of money.
    Analysis

    Loopholes for Military Contractors Are Costing You Money

    Unchecked loopholes in the law help military contractors overcharge the Pentagon — and taxpayers. 

  8. Collage of menacing eye, blurred face, security cameras, an airplane, a phone, a computer, the capitol building, an obscured agent, a family walking, and a patient in a doctor's office.
    Analysis

    We Built a Surveillance State. What Now?

    For decades, Republicans and Democrats have greenlit a massive surveillance apparatus. What happens when this powerful tool is in the hands of the wrong person?

  9. A collage shows a fishing trawler deckhand, a small business owner, a couple working on a tractor, and an aerial view of a small town.
    Analysis

    Schedule F Would Turn Its Back on Rural Communities

    A looming policy proposal, Schedule F, would leave historically disinvested rural communities even further behind.

  10. Collage of various U.S. veterans and servicemembers, a caduceus, and documents, in the shape of a red letter F
    Analysis

    Schedule F Betrays Veterans’ Service to Our Country

    A little-known policy proposal called Schedule F would, if enacted, threaten veterans’ health and the benefits, services, and care they receive from the VA. 

  11. Collage of an immigrant family standing in front of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and five obscured Customs and Border Protection officials on the other side.
    Analysis

    Leadership Crisis at Customs and Border Protection

    A pattern of high-level misconduct has enveloped Customs and Border Protection, but will the public ever know what happened?

  12. Analysis

    “Schedule F” Plan to Gut Civil Service Puts Seniors at Risk

    Mass firings and purging the federal civil service would threaten the health and lives of older adults. 

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