Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B September

Open the Books has tracked the annual September spending bonanza for nearly a decade. Military spending has spiked every year, regardless of which party controlled the White House. However, there has never been anything quite like September 2025, when $93.4 billion was spent on grants and contracts. Since at least 2008 — and presumably in history — no federal agency has ever spent so much on grants and contracts in a single month.

Read More

Medicaid Data Dump: Billing Codes Explode Up to 10,000%

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services dropped an unprecedented amount of new data to improve public transparency and reduce fraud: over 270 million payments made by Medicaid from 2018-2024. They amount to over a trillion dollars worth of taxpayer funds. Open the Books broke down the data.

Read More

Pentagon’s Secret Teacher Training Reveals Defiance of White House DEI Directives

Open the Books has obtained teacher training materials used by the Pentagon’s k-12 school system from the most recent school year. The documents reveal contractors that continue pushing divisive far-left ideology that President Trump has attempted to root out through executive orders, and a bureaucracy loathe to take directions from the White House.

Read More