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Federal employees and anyone else who chooses to steal from the public fisc will be held accountable.—Dan Raby, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026 This poor selection process isn’t only bad for the public fisc, but costs an unnecessary number of compliant partnerships the time and money required for an audit to merely confirm that everything is in order.—Joshua D. Smeltzer, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 The lawyers tend to see themselves as guardians of the public fisc, pitted against those who would drain the coffers: criminals looking for a payday, greedy lawyers, bleeding-heart juries.—Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2022 One of the most discouraging recent events for those who favor limited constitutional governance—not to mention restrained inflation and a sound public fisc—has been the outrageous attempt by the President to bail out the price gougers in higher education.—James Freeman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for fisc