Former Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) brazenly regarded federal grants as “free money” and didn’t care how it sounded when he said so.
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.