The Essential Air Service costs $200 million a year and has long outlived its usefulness following airline deregulation.
Citizens Against Government Waste identified $287 million worth of duplicative federal commissions, all of it wasteful.
The General Services Administration (GSA) has tried to deal with unnecessary federal buildings since 1976. (It still faces that problem.)
The Pentagon, with a budget of $832 billion, once again failed an audit, the sixth such failure in as many years.
Florida prison officials spent $3.6 million of federal taxpayers' money to repair their roofs, but ignored inmates' needs.
Oklahoma colleges spent $83 million in the last decade on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, officers - and lawsuit settlements.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish: Nevada mistreated eight inmates by sending them to fight a fire without training. Cost: $340,000
In 1982, the U.S. Commerce Department spent $440,000 holding training sessions in three-star hotels. Another Golden Fleece.
The Saucon Valley school district paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit by the Satanic Temple and allow a club that doesn't yet exist.
The Maryland Healthe Department lost track of $1.4 billion in federal funds related to the COVID-19 epidemic.