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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.
In 1983 the Federal Aviation Administration bailed out several bankrupt airlines by letting them default on $47 million in loans.
In 1986 a contractor fleeced the Agriculture Department of $3 million (2023 dollars) in funds intended for needy children's lunches.
In 1983, the U.S. Army spent $61,650 printing color pamphlets describing the rules of the boys' game King of the Hill.
