$400,000 to determine whether lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats
$3 million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil
- $10 billion in maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty government buildings.
- $12 million on a pickleball complex in Las Vegas.
- $4.8 million for “influencer staff” for Ukraine’s Public Affairs.
- $20 million on teaching Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil how to use fertilizer properly.
- $2 million to New York University to study kids looking at Facebook ads about food.
- Giving ineligible citizens COVID Economic Injury Disaster Grants (SBA)…..$4,500,000,000
- Using COVID relief funds to construct an 11,000 square foot spa $140,000,000
- Using COVID relief funds to purchase luxury cars ……$31,500,000
- Wisconsin school using COVID relief funds to upgrade turf fields……...………..$1,600,000
- Camouflage uniforms that do not fit the Afghanistan environment (DOD)….….$28,000,000
- Funding a 1.5-mile park in Austin, Texas, used for yoga and concerts (DOD)…....$9,000,000
- Starbucks espresso machines (DOD)…………$192,592
- Interest Payments on the Debt (Treasury)…......$475,000,000,000
- Maintaining 77,000 empty Federal buildings (GSA).......$1,700,000,000
- “Basic education” projects in Jordan (USAID……….………...$210,069,000 Expanding the Washington, D.C. Streetcar that’s rarely used and unreliable…....$175,000,000
- Helping illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)…… $168,000,000
- Mismanaged and un-tracked fuel purchases (State)…… $77,000,000
- Subsidizing the free New York Staten Island Ferry (DOT)…$70,000,000
- Overpaying government contractors for a terminated contract (GSA) .....$69,000,000
- East Baton Rouge unused federal housing grants (HUD)…$13,400,000
- Boosting the Tunisia travel sector during COVID-19 (USAID).......$50,000,000
- Unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants (DHS)…………$17,000,000
- Constructing a Gandhi museum…………………...…$3,000,000
- Watching hamsters fight on steroids (NIH)……$3,000,000
- Super Bowl commercials telling you to fill out the Census (Commerce)………$2,500,000
- Injecting 6-month-old beagle puppies with cocaine (NIH) ………..$2,300,000
- Encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes (NIH)…...........................$2,100,000
- Training mice to binge drink alcohol (NIH)…………………………$1,100,000
- Studying the romance between parrots (NSF)……………..………$689,222
- Studying the social life and collective intelligence of ants (NSF).........$675,000
- Using mice to study racial aggression (NIH)……...……………$519,828
- Redeveloping the United States hard cider market (USDA)…… $491,794
- A radio campaign telling drivers to stop at railroad crossings (DOT)…$200,000
- Verifying that kids love their pets (NIH)…………………$187,500
- Researching if Thanos could snap his fingers wearing the infinity gauntlet (NSF)…..$118,971