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In 2011, the National Science Foundation spent the equivalent of $430,000 on an interpretive dance program to teach origins science.
The Democratic New Mexico Senate delegation filed an earmark for a weird housing concept: trauma-informed housing.
California spent $450 million on a new 911 call center system with four regional centers, but emergency communications are fouled up.
Senator Cory Booker earmarked $350,000 literally to refurbish a statue of an elephant, after Elon Musk highlighted it and removed it.
Members of Congress can lease cars at taxpayers' expense, in addition to their staff salary and housing allowances.
The federal government is the largest single industry in America, with payroll expenses alone costing almost $1 billion a day.
Chicago Public Schools staff racked up millions in travel expenses over two years, taking advantage of poorly written travel rules.
California gambled nearly half a billion dollars on green energy, and the investment lost more than two-thirds of its value.
In 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent nearly two hundred thousand dollars studying hookah-smoking habits in Jordan.
A Maryland school district is keeping a teacher on its payroll even after he stands convicted of defrauding his previous boss.
