Below are a few outrageous ways the federal government has wasted taxpayer money:
- The State Department spent $18.5 million to renovate an unused prison in Afghanistan
In November, Judicial Watch detailed an extravagant waste of taxpayer funds under Hillary Clinton’s State Department to renovate an Afghan prison. The State Department utilized Uncle Sam’s wallet to update Afghanistan’s Pol-i-Charkhi prison so it could house a larger population– a population that actually doesn’t even exist. Even worse, the State Department officer overseeing the multi-million dollar project was convicted for accepting bribes from an agency contractor. The project was then determined to be defective by an independent firm.- $182 million to house illegal alien children
Judicial Watch received documents in September revealing the Department of Health and Human Services paid $182,129,786 to provide “basic shelter care” for 2400 unaccompanied alien children.
- Six figures to film mountain lions running on treadmills
Yes, you read that correctly. The $856,000 study funded by a National Science Foundation grant taught three mountain lions to use a treadmill. According toFederalist, “It took eight months of training before the cats were comfortable on the treadmill.”
“People just didn’t believe you could get a mountain lion on a treadmill, and it took me three years to find a facility that was willing to try,” one of the project’s key researches said.
- $10,000 to watch grass grow
The Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spent $10,000 to monitor the growth of saltmarsh grass.
- $387,000 on Swedish massages for rabbits
The National Institute of Health’s Center for Alternative and Complimentary Medicine spent $387,000 to study the effects of Swedish massages on rabbits.
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