Massachusetts has a program for free unlimited phone calls by its inmates, and local sheriffs already say it's facilitating criminal acts.
Florida mistakenly gave vouchers to more than 37,000 students still in the public schools, and has made little effort to get the money back.
California has, at least since 2020, funded the Council on American-Islamic Relations, part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes HAMAS.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation spent the equivalent of $430,000 on an interpretive dance program to teach origins science.
California spent $450 million on a new 911 call center system with four regional centers, but emergency communications are fouled up.
Senator Cory Booker earmarked $350,000 literally to refurbish a statue of an elephant, after Elon Musk highlighted it and removed it.
Members of Congress can lease cars at taxpayers' expense, in addition to their staff salary and housing allowances.
The federal government is the largest single industry in America, with payroll expenses alone costing almost $1 billion a day.
Chicago Public Schools staff racked up millions in travel expenses over two years, taking advantage of poorly written travel rules.
California gambled nearly half a billion dollars on green energy, and the investment lost more than two-thirds of its value.