In 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent nearly two hundred thousand dollars studying hookah-smoking habits in Jordan.
Zohran Mamdani has many antisemitic allies, and he and/or others are wangling public funding for them from New York City and State.
Employees of the City of Houston are deliberately going to the nearest commercial gas station, though it costs much more.
Baltimore County spent more than one-eight of a million dollars building elevated crosswalks where the traffic didn't merit them.
In 2011 the government spend more than eight hundred thousand dollars tracking college students who volunteered for this Orwellian project.
The Mayor of Baltimore insists that taxpayers continue to spend tens of thousands on a charity that happens to employ his wife.
Advocates against abortion wait for word from Trump in the eventual battle over the Affordable Care Act subsidy extensions.
Ghost college students collected a billion dollars in financial aid to which they were not entitled, according to one DOEd estimate.
The Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's Office apend $163 million, intended for fighting racial discrimination, on golf carts and such.
In 2011 the federal government gave the Oregon Cheese Guild a $50,400 grant to promote an Oregon Cheese Trail.