San Francisco Spent Over $20,000 on a Trash Can
“We need to have a trash can that works for the city of San Francisco,” said city project manager Lisa Zhuo.
“We need to have a trash can that works for the city of San Francisco,” said city project manager Lisa Zhuo.
Poor accounting practices mean the Department of Defense can't even tell how much money or equipment it has lost.
A new paper reveals that the state and local bailout was not only unnecessary but incredibly wasteful.
Only 6 percent of Americans say the federal government is extremely "careful with taxpayer money," yet those same Americans consistently report that they want the government to do more.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that nearly $80 billion was paid out to ineligible beneficiaries or outright fraudsters.
A new GAO report finds that the government lacks a "national strategy with clear roles, goals, objectives, and performance measures."
The department lost nearly $2.4 million on data plans for iPhones and iPads that sat in storage.
Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.
Despite apportioning over $1 billion for homeless housing, cost overruns and sluggish pacing threaten to jeopardize the city project.
No wonder the federal budget is so out of whack.
A state watchdog concluded an office in the Georgia Department of Tax Revenue illegally kept $5 million in forfeiture funds and spent it partially on swag like sunglasses and engraved guns
There will likely never be a full accounting of the war's cost, but as much as $600 billion might have simply vanished due to waste, fraud, and incompetence.
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That's a first-class problem.
Congress approved $25 Billion in emergency rental assistance in December. Only 6 percent of that money has been spent so far.
It must be nice to have Washington's pile of taxpayer cash on your side.
San Francisco politicians are raising eyebrows at the high costs of an emergency program that provides secure camping sites to the city's homeless.
Enhanced unemployment benefits may have helped many Americans weather the pandemic, but they've also attracted the interest of some modern-day Willie Suttons.
Eliminating earmarks didn't make the government smaller. But reinstating them would facilitate legislative corruption.
At a time when supply is constrained and time is of the essence, medical providers in many states are throwing precious doses away.
Meanwhile a privately owned campground nearby works to bring in business
The horses used to belong to the Air Force, which makes only slightly more sense.
Do you appreciate the incompetence, in-fighting, obstructionism, authoritarianism, and waste that you pay for?
As much as $1.4 billion might have been paid to deceased Americans. The IRS says that money must be returned.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that information is confidential. Government watchdogs say that excuse is bogus.
Spending nearly 14 times as much on the CDC as we did in 1987 did not, apparently, help the agency combat the biggest disease threat America has faced in a century.
New funding and new powers haven't made government bureaucracies more competent.
He has no colleagues or staff, but he's supposed to provide oversight on $454 billion in coronavirus spending—nearly equal to the annual budget for Medicare.
When ritual is more important than reuse
Parts of Trump's expensive vanity project on the southern border have been blown over by stiff winds. Other sections will have massive holes in them, by design.
A recent Inspector General's report found the agency had serious problems tracking and managing its inventory.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health reportedly damaged monkeys' brains with acid before showing them pictures of fruit.
But at least they had enough tax dollars left over to buy a Bob Dylan-made sculpture for the U.S. embassy in Mozambique, and to get zebrafish addicted to nicotine in London.
Despite the failure, Pentagon officials are spinning the audit as a step in the right direction.
No single spending item is going to solve America's $22 trillion national debt, but every little bit of wasteful spending makes the tough problems more difficult to solve.
Milton Friedman famously observed that "nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." The rare demise of a government program, it seems, is temporary too.
A damning new audit of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority finds that subway improvement projects are plagued by delays and cost overruns.
A new report from Metro's Office of the Inspector General details the agency's waste when dealing with riders' waste.
Demanding that members of Congress be in town to vote on spending huge sums of money seems reasonable.
"When you bow to these woke scolds, they accept it as weakness."
Surprised? Yeah, neither are we.
The squabbling over federal disaster assistance reveals the bipartisan nature of wasteful spending.
The Agricultural Research Service announced that it would no longer be using cats for research purposes.
Recycling waste streams is supposed to be economical, but many jurisdictions are discovering that's not always so.
Chalk it up to use-it-or-lose-it spending.
He brought out some fake bills to drive his point home.
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