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In 2006, a federal grant program for fire departments ended up funding many projects having nothing to do with fighting fires.
Government grants for paying indigent people's heating bills went instead to the operating expenses of the grant recipient.
The Trump administration doesn't want to cut off research, but rather to contain out-of-control indirect cost financing.
The Small Business Administration made several COVID era grants in error, violating procedures - and won't even try to get its money back.
In 2011, the Agriculture Department made $75,000 worth of federal grants for a program to remind people to buy a real Christmas tree.
In 2011, the federal government spent nearly half a million dollars on a grant to study politics in India.
In 2011 an upstate New York dairy farmer received a grant for a new butter packing machine. Cost: $66,000 in 2011 dollars.
In 2011 the federal government gave the Oregon Cheese Guild a $50,400 grant to promote an Oregon Cheese Trail.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a federal grant to a California university to develop a video game to teach evolution.
In 2011, the Milwaukee Public Museum used a federal grant to make 3-D renderings of Egyptian mummies, in a display available for five months.
