Different States have used the welfare program Temporaryh Assistance to Needy Families to finance many things other than needy families.
A high-school principal dined on steak and lobster and reimbursed himself with funds intended for a school club.
In Massachusetts, taxpayers shouldered $6.8 million in settlements with non-disclosure agreements that State guidelines forbid.
USAID financed pottery classes in Morocco in 2011 - with an American teacher, using clays from America and not available in Morocco.
HUD made several grants to state and local governments to remove lead from people's houses, but without oversight, this work's not happening.
The Washington State Department of Commerce awarded grants for equitable digital inclusion, grants they did little or nothing to oversee.
The Biden EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) made many improper payments that the most cursory glance would have flagged.
The United States Postal Service is losing money, in large part because it is paying the highest wages and salaries in history.
An airport that sees only one flight a month and has no aircraft in its hangars still gets a quarter of a million dollars in funding.
Los Angeles funded a left-wing advocacy organization which then sued the city over a dispute on two of their pet projects