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Weekly Brief

Jul 30, 2026

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Weekly Brief: Swing states set up fight for Congress

Plus: Illinois' $47M phone ban and and Fauci's contempt vote

The Center Square

Weekly Brief

Jul 23, 2026

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Weekly Brief: $1B Medicaid freeze hits 2 states

Plus: WA budget up 230%, a 14-state grid order, and Mamdani's reversal

The Center Square

Inside the Newsroom

Meet The States, your new weekday briefing on YouTube

Jul 21, 2026

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1 min read

Meet The States, your new weekday briefing on YouTube

Host Greg Bishop follows the records, the spending, and the decisions made on your behalf. Weekdays on YouTube.

Chris Krug

Weekly Brief

Jul 16, 2026

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3 min read

Weekly Brief: The $1.8 trillion student loan question

Plus: A Senate race tightening in North Carolina and Pennsylvania's $50.8 billion budget

The Center Square

Impact

$42 billion in Medicaid spending. A reporter followed it. Congress responded.

Jul 14, 2026

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$42 billion in Medicaid spending. A reporter followed it. Congress responded.

The U.S. House cited our reporting in a formal oversight inquiry.

Chris Krug

Weekly Brief

Jul 9, 2026

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3 min read

Weekly Brief: Who's checking on daycare money?

Plus: Feds buy California detention centers and Wisconsin's Microsoft data center lawsuit

The Center Square

Impact

Jul 7, 2026

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1 min read

The foundation behind The Center Square has a new home

Explore our new website and see how America’s accountability newswire delivers taxpayer-focused journalism nationwide.

Chris Krug

Weekly Brief

Jul 2, 2026

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3 min read

Weekly Brief: Bodycam contradicts former NFL reporter's story

Plus: Statehouses wrestle with budgets and the Supreme Court rules on birthright citizenship

The Center Square

Impact

We got the footage The New York Times didn’t

Jul 1, 2026

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1 min read

We got the footage The New York Times didn’t

They spent months on this story. Our reporter got the proof in days.

Chris Krug

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