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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.
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.
