Ravi Govind.
Public finance and governance. Austin, Texas.
Recent writing
- Federal News NetworkTRICARE's new budget line needs the oversight infrastructure it never got
- Austin Ledger 18Texas scores the data center tax break to the dollar. The grid bill gets a zero.
- Austin Ledger 17Texas asked Washington for $11.1 billion in border costs. It got paid $7.5 billion, against a number no outside auditor has ever checked.
- Austin Ledger 16Texas said a data center tax break would cost $14.6 million. It's now $3.3 billion, and a tenth of the companies claiming it have ever been checked.
- Austin Ledger 15Congress's own scorekeeper said a Medicaid provider tax rule would save $183 billion. The agency enforcing it now says $246 billion.
- Austin Ledger 14Texas hospitals are about to lose $27 million a day, and CMS won't say why.