11 Outrageous Ways Federal Government Wasted $473 Billion in Taxpayer Money
by PENNY STARR
BreitBart.com
31 Dec 2017
The federal government wastes or ineffectively uses billions of taxpayer dollars every year. In late November, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) released the annual waste report: “Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Government Dropped the Ball.”
The report provides examples of waste and mismanagement that took place over eleven months, including newly documented past waste and ongoing wasteful practices.
The total wasted dollars dug up for the report: $473 billion. Lankford wrote in the introductory remarks in the report:
Included in ‘Federal Fumbles’ is just a sampling of instances where federal agencies or departments have wasted or inefficiently used billions of your dollars. The program and grant funding discussed in this book has already been allocated or spent and cannot be recovered. But highlighting it here provides lessons for agencies and hopefully encourages Congress to utilize its oversight and legislative authority to prevent future waste and misuse of federal tax dollars.
Lankford said the report should be utilized by members of Congress to curtail the waste and make sure federal agencies “are doing the right thing, the right way.”
“Americans rightly expect great things from their leaders in Washington,” Lankford said. “I offer this book as a guide for elected officials of both parties to identify areas of improvement so we may come together to do the work our constituents expect and our country deserves.”
“There are certain things we wanted to be able to put into perspective with this,” Lankford said at the time the report was released. “This is the to-do list for next year.”
The report is based on government oversight agencies, including inspectors general for each federal agency and the Government Office of Accountability (GOA).
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