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Federal earmark funding came to almost $16 billion in the 2026 federal budget, but Republicans collectively got more than Democrats.
The government is directly subsidizing EV construction and sales to the tune of millions of dollars - and seeing no payoff.
In 2012 the US Department of Agriculture awarded $300,000 to an Idaho fish company to boost the sales of caviar.
Robosquirrel - a stuffed squirrel with a robotic tail - came about from a $325,000 federal grant to two California universities in 2012.
HUD made several grants to state and local governments to remove lead from people's houses, but without oversight, this work's not happening.
Universities are abusing an obviously flawed grant process to charge the government billions of dollars for overhead.
in 2012, two colleges won a federal grant to study primates who throw feces at their handlers and spectators.
The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing all federal funding sent to thirteen blue States, with Minnesota as the trigger.
Taxpayers found themselves forced to pay for a 2011 study of sexual hookups online, using Tinder and other social media.
In 2006, a federal grant program for fire departments ended up funding many projects having nothing to do with fighting fires.
