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A Sample Of Gov't Waste Of Taxpayer's Money

          $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
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