The federal government spent millions of taxpayer dollars studying if women can pick Barbie out of a lineup, creating robot flowers, and building a computer that binge watches Desperate Housewives , according to a new report on wasteful spending. Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday released Wastebook: PORKemon Go , the latest chronicle of waste in a series started by former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn .
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Commentary: Trump should target defense waste
Donald Trump has an opportunity to chart a new course for Republicans on defense spending — a course that would combine GOP hawkishness with a budget-cutter’s approach to Pentagon waste. Although falling as a percentage of the federal budget, defense is still the federal government’s largest single non-entitlement spending item — about 16 percent of the budget in 2016.
Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks
Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon. Her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all.
Tangled in fraud probe, 100s face loss of disability checks
Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon. Her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all.