Agencies & Regulation – The Washington Inquisitor

The U.S. Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.

Nine months in, the Treasury account holding Venezuela’s oil money has no public accounting

An executive order put Venezuelan oil royalties in Treasury custody, with the secretary of state directing payouts. Congressional Democrats say they still cannot learn how much is there or where it has gone.

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Sign outside the Internal Revenue Service Building at 1111 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington

Treasury is sitting on the IRS numbers that show who got the tax cuts

The IRS’s first filing-season tables under the 2025 tax law were due in July and September. The agency says it is waiting on Treasury, though federal rules give statisticians control of release timing.

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Judge orders HHS to begin producing Fauci records in Judicial Watch lawsuit

WASHINGTON, DC – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin producing communications and other records of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and Deputy Director H. Clifford Lane about the World Health Organization (WHO), China, and […]

The FCC’s toll-free number auction, an experiment in market solutions

BY DANIEL LYONS Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a novel experiment to improve the telecommunications network. To meet growing demand, the agency has opened a new area code, 833, for toll-free numbers. But unlike previous area code openings, the FCC will auction off 17,000 popular numbers […]