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The Organ Acquisition Loophole: How CMS’s Own Guidance Cost Medicare $380 Million for Transplants That Never Happened

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A federal audit found CMS’s own guidance let Medicare pay $380 million over six years for organs never transplanted into Medicare patients. Sixteen months after being told its rule conflicts with federal law, the agency still hasn’t said whether it will fix it.

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The Bus to Nowhere: How Washington Spent $2.7 Billion and Still Couldn’t Get Schoolchildren a Ride

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A federal watchdog warned in 2024 that EPA couldn’t account for $836 million in school bus grants. Two years later, the agency’s own numbers show what came of it: a bankrupt manufacturer, thousands of undelivered buses, and a program its own administrator calls a disaster.