The U.S. Army paid Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson $11 million without realizing a single new enlistment and arguably lost enlistments.
Santa Clara County will buy 48 new rail cars - that they can't use until 2037 because they don't have a track to run on.
Texas pregnancy-center contractors might be gaming a program set up to help them, without helping those the State wants to help.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) squandered money on a deserted monkey house and over 300 vacant buildings.
New York City spent $350,000 on a flawed study for planning a preschool program, then sited many schools in the wrong places.
The Disaster Relief Fund might run dry next time, after the government spent $104 billion on COVID relief, some of it unnecessary.
Memphis, Tennessee fell for a phishing scam because COVID-19 protocols allowed transaction settlement by email rather than in-person.
New York City spent $1.6 million to study whether the city should place trash cans outside residents' apartments.
The National Park Service celebrated its centennial – in the wrong year, 2008 instead of 2016. Some of the spending projects were silly.
As much as $293 million of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan might have gone to the Taliban because it was not properly tracked.