The Caring for Denver Foundation billed taxpayers $28,200 for meals and alcoholic drinks, and its board pretends not to know about it.
West Virginia bought over 1000 oversized Internet routers, each capable of handling tens of thousands of users - to handle one machine each.,
The cost to renovate Boston's White Stadium, which belongs to Boston Public Schools, has almost tripled in two years.
The federal debt held by the public will soon exceed 108 percent of Gross Domestic Product, thus setting a record.
Prison guards in Rhode Island often make nearly $300,000 in overtime, per their ultra-favorable labor contract.
The Department of Defense Education Activity, which runs K-12 schools for military families, still uses DEI contractors.
In 2011 the United States government paid service fees of $2 million for bank accounts that had lain empty, some for three years or more.,
Federal earmark funding came to almost $16 billion in the 2026 federal budget, but Republicans collectively got more than Democrats.
Florida spent $405 million to address illegal immigration, but nearly one-fourth went to porta-potties and DeSantis donors.
In 2025, Pentagon personnel spent record amounts of money dining on lobster, Alaskan king crab, and other expensive seafoods.