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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.
In 2011 the Department of Agriculture awarded grants to bed-and-breakfast inns in New York so they could buy locally grown produce.
The Trump administration will end grants to Hispanic-serving institutions of higher learning, because they discriminate on race.
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute paid out $10.4 million to its executives, yet still complains of losing $4 million in federal funds
In 2011 the United States government spent over twenty million dollars subsidizing cotton and its marketing abroad.
