In 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation spent over half a billion dollars on highway beautification instead of repairs.
Some officials at FEMA are not properly trained to do their own jobs, including checking up on contractors providing disaster relief.
The Inflation Reduction Act costs three times as much as originally projected and has not achieved its stated environmental goals.
Would-be immigrants have a powerful cash incentive from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which spent billions over five years on very controversial programs. Worse, the former...
Taxpayers paid millions to help develop a cancer drug, but that drug still costs nearly $200,000 per dose, which Medicaid and insurers have to cover. (Shades...
Wasteful and silly government spending didn't start recently. In 2010, the federal government awarded Columbia University the equivalent of $675,000 to study monkey poop in a...
New York City angered its drivers with congestion tolls, yet they lose billions to toll dodging and hundreds of millions to subway fare dodging. If they...
Politico was getting $44 million a year from premium subscriptions which it sold to executive agencies (not USAID alone, by the way) and to Congressional offices.
Open the Books breaks down the costs of using a C-17 or other military aircraft for deportation of large numbers of illegal aliens.
In a story that adds new meaning to the question, "What color is your parachute?" Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) earmarked $60,500 of taxpayers' money to fund...