Congress funded 1,264 programs with no legal mandate, amounting to almost 8 percent of the total federal budget.
The GSA (General Services Administration) spent $5.3 billion in one month – last of the fiscal year, including use-it-or-lose-it spending.
In 2010, the government paid a leftist professor 3/16 of a million dollars to create a video game in protest of capitalism.
Many New Yorkers using Medicaid are gaming the system, costing New York $20 billion that the government shouldn't have to spend.
Federal office workers are not using their offices, which the government is spending billions per year to maintain.,
The $50 billion opioid settlement is not doing what its proponents promised, because the money is poorly managed.
Minnesota bought luxury Rocket Rider buses for a private bus shuttle company, using some of Obama’s stimulus money.
FEMA refused to pay for a broken window in the Hurricane Helene area, but offered a luxury hotel stay for sixty times the repair bill.
Improper payments consume an unacceptably large portion of the federal budget, though that portion has declined recently.
The federal government has spent $267 million on grants to fight what it calls misinformation - a high price for censorship.