Colorado has many oil wells that are not profitable enough to cover costs of cleanup and final decommissioning.
Shreveport, Louisiana cleaned mold and mildew from a building - an abandoned housing project - then demolished it anyway.
The U.S. Army paid Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson $11 million without realizing a single new enlistment and arguably lost enlistments.
Six thousand Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees - five percent of the agancy's workforce - owe $50 million in unpaid taxes.
Santa Clara County will buy 48 new rail cars - that they can't use until 2037 because they don't have a track to run on.
Texas pregnancy-center contractors might be gaming a program set up to help them, without helping those the State wants to help.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) squandered money on a deserted monkey house and over 300 vacant buildings.
New York City spent $350,000 on a flawed study for planning a preschool program, then sited many schools in the wrong places.
The Disaster Relief Fund might run dry next time, after the government spent $104 billion on COVID relief, some of it unnecessary.
Memphis, Tennessee fell for a phishing scam because COVID-19 protocols allowed transaction settlement by email rather than in-person.