State governments across the USA have $811 billion in debt that exceeds their assets, mainly from unfunded pension liabilities.
NASA must start tracking how many people come to its headquarters to work, and how many work online and at a distance.
New York State insists that small towns and some counties share government services, like courts - and everything ends up costing more.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
Members of Congress have demanded a record $31 million in earmarks, more than three-quarters of them from Republicans.
Spending is out of control at a Florida state college where Governor Ron DeSantis appointed most of its trustees.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson returned trifling sums to campaign contributors who then got multimillion-dollar city business.
A detective convicted of multiple fraud counts will still keep his pension, though he used his position as part of his frauds.
The Census Bureau spent $2.5 mllion in 2010 to advertise on the Super Bowl, and the ad laid one of the event's biggest bombs.
The Biden administration is on track to make more than a trillion dollars, a new four-year record, in improper payments.