Chris Edwards America’s air traffic control (ATC) needs restructuring. ATC has become a high-tech business, but we run our system as an old-fashioned bureaucracy inside of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The system is antiquated, mismanaged, and is headed for a crisis as aviation demands continue to rise. The solution is privatization, which President Trump supported during his first term. ...
Vanessa Brown Calder A variety of Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs could use immediate attention from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and public housing and other supply-side housing subsidies are high on the list. Public housing has a history of failure, and over the years, government spending on public housing has declined in favor of other programs, ...
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia As part of the Cato Institute Report to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), we submitted the following recommendations to address the looming Social Security insolvency and its impact on the federal budget. Social Security is not a savings system but a pay-as-you-go scheme, where taxes collected from today’s workers fund the benefits of today’s ...
Michael F. Cannon Via this Cato white paper, I submitted the following recommendations to the Department of Government Efficiency, a private-sector organization that will advise President-elect Donald Trump on how to reduce inefficiency in the federal government. The following recommendations would make health care more universal by reducing regulatory barriers to lower-cost, higher-quality health insurance and medical care. I further ...
Romina Boccia Below are interactions with members of the US House Committee on the Budget following my testimony on December 11, 2024. You can find my oral remarks here and watch the full hearing here (my remarks: 20:15–25:55). These discussions delve deeper into the fiscal challenges and potential solutions discussed during the hearing, offering a closer look at key concerns ...
Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, promising to revolutionize industries, amplify productivity, and unlock innovations unimagined a decade ago. However, as with every disruptive technology, AI presents new demands on the resources that enable its growth—and none is more ...
Chris Edwards “President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the US Postal Service [USPS] in recent weeks,” reports the Washington Post. The article discusses Trump’s long-standing complaints about the postal agency and possible reforms in the spirit of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The article mentions hurdles to privatization, but ongoing declines in letter volume mean ...
Thomas A. Berry Today, the Supreme Court granted review of TikTok v. Garland, a case that could determine whether TikTok will continue to operate in the United States. In this post, I’ll explain how we got here and why the Supreme Court should not take the same deferential approach that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals took in this case ...
Walter Olson The Equal Rights Amendment failed when its time limit expired before it could be ratified by 34 states; several states have also moved to rescind their previous approvals. But in recent weeks, advocates, including 46 senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand (D‑NY), 100 members of the House of Representatives, the League of Women Voters, and 23 state attorneys general, ...
David Inserra This blog is part of a series on technology innovation and free expression. US tech policies have allowed innovation and speech to flourish in the United States, with large titans of industry, a vibrant culture of tech start-ups, and consumers who have benefited immensely from the constant improvements. And the benefits of this flourishing have spread across the ...