Over 40,000 federal workers have taken the Trump administration’s buyout option — meaning they chose to leave their post and receive roughly eight months of salary and benefits — according to recent reports.
Over 24,000 federal employees have accepted the buyout option offered by the Trump administration — to resign by February 6 with extended pay and benefits or return to work in-person with new “performance standards” — according to reports.
The Biden administration wasted $236 billion in improper payments throughout 71 federal programs in 2023, according to Government Accountability Office.
Auditor-general warns public services are “not good enough and cost too much” and the present approach is “not sustainable to carry on”.
Ben & Jerry’s cofounder, Ben Cohen, launched a meme contest to find and highlight the most egregious waste at the Department of Defense.
The government has wasted $10 billion maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost empty buildings, according to Sen. Rand Paul’s report.
The U.S. government spent millions of dollars on a experiments torturing cats, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers.
The federal government wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on a number of absurd and bizarre projects.
A whistleblower’s claims are drawing attention to the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The soon-to-be-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, shared some examples of obscene government waste on Monday so Americans can have some clear examples of what needs to be cut.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk pitched a “government efficiency commission” to cut government waste while speaking with former President Donald Trump on Monday, and offered to “help out” with such an endeavor.
Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday evening that he will never touch Social Security or Medicare.
Slamming the Biden-funded South Bay rail extension plan as a “boondoggle,” Sen. Joni Ernst announced she is working hard to bring down Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s pork project.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) releases his annual “Festivus Report” every year, highlighting some of the most absolutely egregious forms of government waste that year.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) shared his annual “Festivus” report Friday showing Americans how their tax dollars were wasted in 2023.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for the closure of the recently renovated Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in Democrat-run San Francisco. She cites severe public safety concerns amid a spike in crime and drug activity in the area and describes the “haunted house” as a “far-left failure” and “symbol” of government dysfunction.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a bill to reduce spending by nearly $1 billion a month by lessening taxpayer expenses for payment errors under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as Food Stamps.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Tuesday unveiled the latest examples of egregious government spending and waste, which includes taxpayer dollars used to train pigs to play video games, provide dolphins with an underwater touch pad with “dolphin friendly apps,” and establish a comedy center in New York.
London’s so-called Vagina Museum has marked Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by lecturing social media followers that not all victims of the deadly disease are women.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and 22 House Republicans on Wednesday demanded transparency from federal agencies on billions of taxpayer dollars flowing to Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, after a delegation of Republicans on Tuesday renewed “support to give Ukraine everything that it needs” to fight Russia.
Canadian PM Trudeau has admitted it was “illogical” to give millions to a firm to develop a Covid travel app that subcontracted the work
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said that there is waste that is spread throughout the federal budget. After viewing a clip of Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) saying that there is waste in the
Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) is spending nearly $10 million a year on “woke warrior” diversity roles, a report suggests.
Nearly $690,000 in taxpayers’ money went toward studying “romance” between parrots, according to Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) annual Festivus report.
This year’s annual Festivus report from Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) highlights billions in government waste, including wasteful expenditures at the hands of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which spent millions of taxpayer dollars on watching hamsters fight on steroids and millions more on campaigns encouraging individuals in other countries to wear shoes.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday continued the annual tradition of celebrating “Festivus,” airing out his many grievances as it relates to government waste.
An investigation from a British newspaper has found the government has wasted at least £14 billion on frivolous expenditures.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) this week released his annual Festivus Report detailing egregious, wasteful government spending over the last year. This year’s list includes money spent on “a study of pigeons gambling on slot machines, giving kids junk food, and telling citizens of Vietnam not to burn their trash.”
The U.S. government spent millions of dollars on a range of bizarre projects, including grinding up ferrets to develop vaccines and constructing walls in the Middle East, Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) annual Festivus Report reveals.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) proposed Thursday to axe unused government programs in her latest proposal to eliminate federal waste, fraud, and abuse.
The UK’s £37 billion coronavirus Test and Trace scheme showed “no clear evidence” that it has been effective in combatting the coronavirus.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his annual report this week detailing government waste in honor of the parody holiday “Festivus,” highlighting over $54 billion in taxpayer dollars spent on items including a study examining eating ground-up bugs, spraying alcoholic rats with bobcat urine, and walking lizards on a treadmill.
The Swedish public has voted that climate change spending has been the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019, according to a poll by the Swedish Taxpayers’ Association.
Both Democrat and Republican political establishments have decried the cost of President Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall while $115 million in American taxpayer money has funded the Somali National Army, tourism in Egypt, quails on cocaine, and more.
Canadia Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official trip to Canada has been a subject of controversy yet again after it was revealed he flew a Canadian celebrity chef to India with taxpayer money and invited a known terrorist to dinner.
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) released the annual report on government waste, digging up an estimated total of $473 billion.
German auditors have slammed the government’s German language courses for asylum seekers saying that it is likely that millions of euros have been wasted on programmes where no measure of success could be found.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government will spend $1.34 trillion on ObamaCare over the next decade, if it’s not repealed. 2016’s ObamaCare spending was estimated at $110 billion.
President Barack Obama’s Pentagon discredited and suppressed an internal probe that uncovered $125 billion in wasteful spending on the enormous administrative operations primarily ran by civilians and contractors.
Members of the European Parliament spent more than $6.2 million on luxury trips abroad in the first half of 2015 alone, it has been revealed. The taxpayer cash was splurged on five-star hotels and first-class travel to exotic destinations, and
