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The Antarctic Program today spends less than 20 percent of its budget supporting scientific research, and the rest on overhead.
NASA recently canceled a launcher development project after spending $1.4 billion on it, with more money still owed the developer.
The successors to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) share their plans for the path forward.
USAID stored $2.9 million worth of super cereal that turned out to be rotten, and $10 million of food that was due to expire.
Federal employees and retirees owed more than six billion dollars in unpaid taxes as of 2024. House Oversight Chairman James Comer is on it.
In 2012, the government spent nearly a million present-day dollars studying those who watch a lot of reruns on television.
In 2012 the US military actually spent over a million dollars researching how to create beef jerky at a low price.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) handed a contract to run its largest detention center to a "firm" of 39 working out of a house.
The Department of Justice has unspent money for anti-violence grants, at least $77.5 million worth, sitting idle from bureaucratic failure.
Medicaid has provided vast questionable reimbursements to health care providers who turn out to be delinquent on their taxes.
