The National Drugs Intelligence Center (NDIC) took millions of taxpayer dollars, and everyone knew every dollar was wasted.
Topline: An instance of San Diego Unified school district spending a $3 million federal grant on employee bonuses instead of low-income students was just the start...
The National Science Foundation doubled down on a wasteful Chinese video game research project by spending nearly three times as much.
In 2008, Capitol restaurants ran $2 million in the red and forced taxpayers to balance their books, according to a now-decased Senator.
The FCC spent $350,000 in 2008 on an ad on a NASCAR race car to announce the all-digital transition of live TV - and the car...
In 2008, the Justice Department paid a windfall to the Cleveland Botanical Garden to teach teens to make and sell salsa and salad dressing.
A Texas school district actually bought a water slide and other luxuries with federal funds, then claimed these enhanced reading instruction.
In 2008, a Congressional junket to the Galapagos Islands cost the taxpayers $31,100, adjusted for inflation to 2024.
On Sept. 10, 2001, then SecDef Donald Rumsfeld promised to account for $2.3 trillion in Pentagon spending. The accounting hasn't happened.
The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute got $9.4 million to look for aliens no one has ever found.