Joni Ernst Suggests A List Of ‘Billion-Dollar Waste’ She Aims To Stop
Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst recently indicated that she intends to target more “billion dollar boondoggles” now that the Trump administration has ceased funding for California’s high-speed rail projects. The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it will not provide any future grants to the project, which has a budget exceeding $100 billion and is […]
Report shows Grand Canyon National Park has billion-dollar economic impact
A new report says Grand Canyon National Park has a $1 billion impact on the local economy. Officials say more than 4.7 million people visited the park last year. They estimate that visitors spent more than $768 million in communities near the parks and supported more than 10,100 local jobs. Grand Canyon Superintendent Ed Keeble […]
Debt-Burdened Zambia Reaches Billion-Dollar Loan Restructuring Deal With China, Other Countries
The French government announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with China, of which Zambia is its biggest creditor, and other creditor countries for a $6.3 billion loan restructuring, according to the Associated Press (AP). The deal gave landlocked African countries concessions to facilitate debt repayments to China, to which Zambia owes $4.1 […]
Arizona’s billion-dollar water investment may soon be a mirage
Is that the end of that multi-billion dollar investment? Lawmakers last year touted the funding behind efforts to find new water sources and conserve existing ones. They agreed to split $1 billion over three years, most of which was allocated to import water from somewhere else. And passed a bill that fundamentally strengthens the Arizona […]