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.
Zohran Mamdani has many antisemitic allies, and he and/or others are wangling public funding for them from New York City and State.
Employees of the City of Houston are deliberately going to the nearest commercial gas station, though it costs much more.
Baltimore County spent more than one-eight of a million dollars building elevated crosswalks where the traffic didn't merit them.
In 2011 the government spend more than eight hundred thousand dollars tracking college students who volunteered for this Orwellian project.