The federal government ran a $1.8 trillion budget deficit, the largest since the coronavirus days and deepening the national debt further.
China got in on several military research projects of the U.S. Defense Department, thereby enhancing their ability to make war.
Police in Irvine California bought a Tesla Cybertruck as an attention-getter for its Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.
A Texas school superintendent scored a million-dollar remittance after having to resign after student performance remained abysmal.
The Federal Aviation Administration spent $5 million on a three-week-long Christmas party in 2009 and called it a conference.
The Orange County (California) supervisor used his job to get a sweetheart deal for a friend, worth $275,000.
The chief revenue raiser in the Mississippi House of Representatives takes pork barrel spending to an absurd and outrageous new level.
A Chicago nonprofit received $50 million while an abused foster-child center allowed sexual assault and even trafficking to go on.
The Sawyer Bridge in New Hampshire got hundreds of thousands in Obama stimulum money in 2009, yet no one can cross it.
Improper payments to non-entitled persons and entities set a record in numbers and total volume – a sorry record of waste and abuse.