10 Outrageous Examples of Government Waste

10 Outrageous Examples of Government Waste

By Staff  //  October 24, 2014

$638,910 on sending coal to military bases in Germany

A decades-old earmark requires the Air Force to use American anthracite coal to heat its military bases in Germany. The law has yet to be changed and taxpayers are left with an expensive and unnecessary tab. 

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<p>A Cold War-era program called the Initiative for Proliferation Prevention has in many years been appropriated far more than it can spend, according to Coburn's report. The Department of Energy (DOE) has admitted that the program overlaps with other g

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