The Waste List

The Waste List > Total Value of Government Waste: $57,322,568,479

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WASTE: Free (taxpayer-funded) bus rides for Super Bowl attendees - $142,419

WASTE: $1.1 Million Puppets - $1,188,382

WASTE: Toy exhibit - $150,000

WASTE: Duplicate magazine preservation - $270,000

WASTE: Professional sports tax loopholes - $91,000,000

WASTE: New NASA visitor center built next door to old NASA visitor center - $12,400,000

WASTE: $1.5 Million For Hollywood TV Shows - $1,500,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded booze - $99,000

WASTE: Robot Squirrels - $325,000

WASTE: Lego city - $3,700

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded smartphone research - $1,300,000

WASTE: Missile Defense Agency’s research problems - $1,000,000,000

WASTE: Improper food stamp payments - $4,500,000,000

WASTE: Arcade-style floor mats for gym class - $90,750

WASTE: $400,000 To Promote “Pickleball” - $400,000

WASTE: Overseas vacations for athletes - $5,500,000

WASTE: $76 Million To Round Up Wild Horses - $76,000,000

WASTE: Celebrity chefs and healthy food vending machines - $612,808

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded online lawyer training - $500,000

WASTE: $3 Million In Taxpayer Money To Lobby For Soda Tax - $3,000,000

WASTE: Job contractors pay highest bidder - $4,600,000

WASTE: Paying for veterans’ health care twice - $1,000,000,000

WASTE: NASA video games and entertainment programs - $1,600,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded comedy group tours India - $100,000

WASTE: Postal Service overprints commemorative stamps - $2,000,000

WASTE: USDA caviar promotion - $300,000

WASTE: $165 Million Unused Prison - $165,000,000

WASTE: Old-fashioned x-rays for prisoners - $1,300,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded phone app - $1,000,000

WASTE: Video game study on memory loss - $1,200,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded house renovations lose money - $18,410

WASTE: Faulty FEMA calculations lead to unnecessary building replacement - $75,400,000

WASTE: Department Of Interior Expanded Use Of Sheep Counting Drones

WASTE: Government-subsidized cell phones - $1,500,000,000

WASTE: Government overpays for products and services - $1,000,000,000

WASTE: Video game controller design - $1,500,000

WASTE: Speed reading faces - $30,000

WASTE: A Painting Commissioned for the SAMHSA - $22,500

WASTE: Black liquor tax loophole - $268,000,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded potato chips - $49,990

WASTE: National Science Foundation “Prom Week” video game - $516,000

WASTE: Rubber tire subsidy to billion-dollar tire company - $6,900,000

WASTE: Philosophy booth and “academic” happiness course - $24,995

WASTE: Taxpayer dollars go to a brewery - $750,970

WASTE: Department of Energy award for App that already exists - $100,000

WASTE: $3 Million To Boost Bike Clubs - $3,000,000

WASTE: $1 Million For Empty Bank Accounts - $890,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded pet shampoo and toothpaste - $505,000

WASTE: Circus classes - $20,000

WASTE: Video game based on author Henry David Thoreau’s writings - $40,000

WASTE: Smokey Bear balloons - $49,447

WASTE: Sidewalks to nowhere - $1,100,000

WASTE: Fruit fly sexual attractiveness study - $939,771

WASTE: Talking urinal cakes - $10,000

WASTE: Old-fashioned trolley car - $35,600,000

WASTE: Failed healthy food initiative - $32,000,000

WASTE: Powerful internet routers installed in tiny rural libraries and schools - $24,000,000

WASTE: Book club funding goes to ghost tours, fishing lessons, and movie screenings - $1,000,000

WASTE: Unconstitutional courthouse cameras - $500,000

WASTE: $235,000 Spent On Massage Therapy, Kickboxing, Kayaking, And Zumba - $235,000

WASTE: Capitol Gift Shops, Hair Care, Sleep Classes and Excessive Printing

WASTE: Science dollars wasted on Antarctica projects - $20,500,000

WASTE: Luxurious bus shelters - $388,000

WASTE: Taxpayer dollars fail to reform struggling schools - $7,300,000

WASTE: California towns sell federal grants to neighbors - $206,426

WASTE: Student field trip to watch the movie Red Tails - $57,000

WASTE: Phantom and unused grant account fees - $2,000,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded study finds golfers are better when they envision a larger hole - $350,000

WASTE: Moroccan pottery classes - $27,000,000

WASTE: $1 Million For Urban Gardening - $1,000,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded yacht engines - $489,000

WASTE: Highway funds pay for sculpture garden - $145,000

WASTE: Corporate welfare for world’s largest snack food maker - $1,300,000

WASTE: Russian weapons institutes recruiting new scientists with U.S. taxpayer funds - $15,000,000

WASTE: Alabama Watermelon Queen Tour - $25,000

WASTE: Government-backed business loan losses - $3,400,000

WASTE: Video game festival - $50,000

WASTE: $3.3 Billion Lost In Unemployment Fraud - $3,300,000,000

WASTE: Abandoned homes in New Orleans receive federal funds - $21,600,000

WASTE: Unused airport in Oklahoma - $450,000

WASTE: Electric vehicle tax credit - $74,000,000

WASTE: Navy picks two companies to build new ships increasing costs by $148 million - $148,000,000

WASTE: Medicaid audit program costs more than it saves - $30,000,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded Star Wars party - $365

WASTE: $100 Million On DOJ Conferences - $100,000,000

WASTE: Vineyard grape-growing subsidies - $1,500,000

WASTE: Study on heavy drinking in thirties linked to immaturity - $548,731

WASTE: Television rerun study - $666,905

WASTE: Mars Menu - $947,000

WASTE: $8 Million PR Contract To Promote Obamacare - $8,000,000

WASTE: Fruit and veggies YouTube video contest - $106,000

WASTE: Medicaid payments to tax evaders - $330,000,000

WASTE: Oil Paintings For Obscure Officials - $400,000

WASTE: Study on Idaho firearm industry - $24,877

WASTE: $7.5 Million To Promote Free Pet Neutering - $$7,500,000

WASTE: $400k Taxpayer-Funded Condom Study - $423,500

WASTE: $11 Billion In IRS Faulty Refunds - $11,000,000,000

WASTE: Pentagon weapons funds buy beef jerky - $700,000

WASTE: Climate change musical - $697,177

WASTE: $7.8 Million On Department Of Interior Conferences - $7,800,000

WASTE: Unused and outdated NASA database - $771,000

WASTE: Abuse of college tax credits - $3,200,000,000

WASTE: Cartoon school receives $225,000 - $225,000

WASTE: Alaskan sightseeing trains - $38,800,000

WASTE: Unnecessary courthouse design - $322,000,000

WASTE: Book vending machine - $35,000

WASTE: Contracts for trophies and typewriters - $24,000,000

WASTE: $10,000 DOJ Pizza Party - $10,000

WASTE: Bizarre and wasteful “academic” summer studies - $498,000

WASTE: Taxpayer-funded tour boat - $3,300,000

WASTE: Failed Iraqi police training program - $400,000,000

WASTE: College anti-trash poster contest - $67,926

WASTE: 100 Year Starship Initiative - $300,000

WASTE: Dancing robots as iPhone disc jockeys - $547,430

WASTE: Taxpayer-subsidized cupcakes - $2,000,000

WASTE: Taxpayers fund graffiti mural to combat obesity - $13,000

WASTE: Motorsports museum - $300,000

WASTE: $11 Million On Luxury Private Jets For DOJ Political Appointees - $11,000,000

WASTE: Penny production - $70,000,000

WASTE: Another bridge to nowhere - $520,000

WASTE: Identity thieves steal billions from IRS - $3,900,000,000