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The Census Bureau spent $810 million to invent computers for its crews to use in the 2010 Census – and all that money was wasted.
Topline: The federal government spends money to maintain over 1,300 national hiking trails that are easily accessible to all Americans — but it also spent hundreds...
Topline: In 2005, the federal government gave a $500,000 grant to music education group B InTune and directed them to report back a year later on...
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.
