Um, that’s a lot of waste of taxpayer funds: Construction of the massive, new William Beaumont Army Medical Center complex at Fort Bliss is almost two years behind schedule and at least $22 million over the original contract award. The $648 million contracted construction cost of the six-building hospital complex has swelled to about $670 […]
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More taxpayer dollars wasted. Thanks for nothing, IRS. Photo by BrookingsInst
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Well, at least the NFL is giving the money back for charging taxpayers to have military servicemen and women . Photo by U.S. Army Public Affairs, Midwest
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Um, okay then: The Food and Drug Administration is spending $36 million on an anti-chewing tobacco advertising campaign targeted at white male teenagers in the midwest. The federal agency announced Tuesday it is expanding its “Real Cost” anti-tobacco campaign to “educate rural, white male teenagers” and convince them to stop dipping. Photo by Ryan Ojibway
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Liz Harrington with a great write-up of the ‘science fair’ event: The reception seemed like an indictment of the numerous Free Beacon reports on wasteful spending on behavioral science studies from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For the next hour, I would come face to face with the well-meaning researchers […]
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Should we abolish or dismantle the U.S. Postal Service, after suffering huge losses like this? Photo by JLaw45
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From the Free Beacon: The Internal Revenue Service hosted events that exceeded cost estimates and often failed to meet requirements for their approval, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The report reviewed documentation for 650 events held by the IRS in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 and found that […]
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Wait, government wasting money on things that don’t work? Where have we heard about this before… Photo by U.S. Department of the Interior
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It’s really enraging news for the American taxpayer: The Department of Veterans Affairs is not demoting two executives who allegedly exploited a relocation program to obtain more than $400,000 in salary hikes and other benefits. VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson announced Monday that the Veterans Benefits Administration senior executives will keep their high-paying regional director positions despite […]
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The government probably won’t be able to recoup the money, which was erroneously sent to illegal immigrants as a result of ObamaCare subsidy payments. Photo by tedeytan
Continue Reading10/30/2016 - More Government Waste: Hospital at Fort Bliss is $22 Million Over Budget
5/25/2016 - IRS Paid Out $15.6 Billion Erroneously
5/20/2016 - NFL to Pay Back Federal Gov’t some $723,734 for Military Recognition Ceremonies at Games
4/20/2016 - $36 Million Spent by FDA to Combat Chewing Tobacco
4/19/2016 - Free Beacon Goes to a Science Fair to Highlight Government Waste
4/7/2016 - Postal Service has Lost $50 Billion since 2007
3/23/2016 - IRS Costs for Conferences Exceeded Estimates
3/22/2016 - Interior Dept Spent $50 Million on Crime Database that Doesn’t Work
2/23/2016 - Bureaucrats who Exploited Relocation Program for More Pay are Keeping Their Jobs
2/9/2016 - Report: $750 Million in Taxpayer Dollars Went to Illegal Immigrants thanks to ObamaCare Subsidies
2/5/2016 - $200,000 Spent by Feds to Use Food Trucks to Get Hispanic Construction Workers to Stop Smoking
12/22/2015 - IRS: $46 Million in Wrongly-Issued Tax Refunds Given Out
12/15/2015 - U.S. Can’t Keep Track of Spending in Afghanistan
12/9/2015 - Coburn’s Wastebook Tradition Continues, Passed onto Sen. Jeff Flake
12/8/2015 - ObamaCare Funds May Be Mismanaged by Administration
12/7/2015 - Government Waste in Afghanistan: Posh Villas for Task Force
11/16/2015 - Federal Gov’t Wasted $43 Million on a $500,000 Gas Station in Afghanistan that’s Rarely Used
11/4/2015 - More Gov’t Waste: Social Security Paid Employees who were Found Drinking, Sleeping on the Job
11/3/2015 - 10 of 23 ObamaCare Co-Ops have Failed, Costing at least $1.1 Billion
10/30/2015 - DHS Spent $1.8 Million on Employees on Administrative Leave
10/29/2015 - Expensive Blimp Gets Loose in Maryland and Causes a Stir
10/12/2015 - Watchdog Group: EPA is Running a $160 Million PR Machine
9/24/2015 - EPA Official Spent $69,000 of Taxpayer Dollars to Fly Home on Weekends
9/21/2015 - INFOGRAPHIC: 3 Ways the Government Wastes Your Taxpayer Dollars
9/18/2015 - Census Employees Billed Taxpayers $1 Million for Time Not Worked, Report Finds
9/13/2015 - Dept of Agriculture Barely Uses Over 1,100 Cars, Spending $6.2 Million on them
9/4/2015 - $572 Million in Extra ObamaCare Tax Credits Paid Out to Undeserving Recipients
8/19/2015 - Government ‘Creates Jobs’ by Buying Snowmobiles
7/29/2015 - Medicare Audit finds 23,000 Possibly Fake Addresses of Health Care Providers
6/8/2015 - Social Security Administration issued $16.8 Billion in Overpayments
6/1/2015 - Gov’t Waste: DOJ Spends $585,000 on Studying Far-Right Social Media Use
5/29/2015 - VIDEO: CBS reports on Hundreds of Millions of Gov’t Waste on U.S. Embassies
5/14/2015 - Earmarks Dead? Nope, $4.2 Billion Handed Out
5/14/2015 - Veterans Affairs Wastes $6 Billion a Year, says Top Official
5/8/2015 - John McCain Continues Coburn’s Wasteful Spending List
3/25/2015 - Hurricane Sandy Relief Money went to Underground Marijuana Lab
2/13/2015 - Solar Energy Subsidies cost Taxpayers $39 Billion a Year
2/12/2015 - Taxpayers paid for a Romance Novel Exhibit to the tune of $914,000
2/11/2015 - Feds spent over $390,000 to Teach Children Dog Safety
12/27/2014 - NIH is Spending $433,000 to find out Kids’ Thoughts on Fat Movie Characters
12/26/2014 - 12 Ways how the U.S. Government Wasted Your Money
