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Congress actually banned earmarks once, and saved $141 billion over the ten years of the ban. That ban should return.
The city of Baltimore spent nearly $3 million in a year without seeking or logging proper authorization for all spending projects.
Why did the Department of Housing and Urban Development pay $60,000 to build a rear-entrance garden for a pizza parlor?
In three separate bank failures, the CEO collected millions while the U.S. taxpayer had to make whole $31.6 billion in insured deposits.
The Biden administration overpaid a Canadian electric bus maker to build clean-running school buses - and most of them never arrived.
The Department of Education has increased its spending eightfold since 2000, but student grades have slid across the board.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo received $1.3 billion in foreign aid from USAID - and spent it on lavish travel for its leaders.
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.
