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In 2011 an upstate New York dairy farmer received a grant for a new butter packing machine. Cost: $66,000 in 2011 dollars.
Massachusetts has a program for free unlimited phone calls by its inmates, and local sheriffs already say it's facilitating criminal acts.
Florida mistakenly gave vouchers to more than 37,000 students still in the public schools, and has made little effort to get the money back.
California has, at least since 2020, funded the Council on American-Islamic Relations, part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes HAMAS.
An NYC city councilwoman has introduced a bill to give raises to Council members, the mayor, and other top city officials.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation spent the equivalent of $430,000 on an interpretive dance program to teach origins science.
The Democratic New Mexico Senate delegation filed an earmark for a weird housing concept: trauma-informed housing.
California spent $450 million on a new 911 call center system with four regional centers, but emergency communications are fouled up.
Senator Cory Booker earmarked $350,000 literally to refurbish a statue of an elephant, after Elon Musk highlighted it and removed it.
Members of Congress can lease cars at taxpayers' expense, in addition to their staff salary and housing allowances.
