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In 2011, the Agriculture Department made $75,000 worth of federal grants for a program to remind people to buy a real Christmas tree.
Federal buildings received record spending in September of 2025, with $4.5 billion in spending on incidentals – including toiletries.
Plainedge UFSD must pay a severance of over nine hundred thousand dollars to its recently resigned superintendent of schools.
Government spending has increased far faster than either inflation or population growth, with spending per person up 100 times in 100 years.
Lawyer Ramzi Kassem received over a million in salary from the State of New York, though he has defended terrorists.
In 2011, the federal government spent nearly half a million dollars on a grant to study politics in India.
Government auditors set up 24 fake accounts to see whether the agency administering Obamacare would detect them - and the agency flunked.
College football coaches commonly receive generous severances from universities at indirect taxpayer expense.
Federal regulatory agencies routinely pay attorneys' fees for nonprofits that practice sue and settle to get draconian regulations in place.
A new meaning for the phrase university alumni support: Senators earmarking federal cash for their former schools.
