#wastefulspending — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wastefulspending, aggregated by home.social.
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Finally, I learned that NZ Defence forces routinely buy missiles that might expire before they can be used;
"... purchasing those more precise ammunition systems is
quite tricky ... they have a shelf life."Brigadier #MattWeston, 2025
The cost of each missile can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the "low millions" (Weston's estimate for a complete Javelin missile kit).
(30/?)
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"Trump Is Pressuring John Thune to Fire the Parliamentarian Over Ballroom Funding
The nonpartisan Senate adviser determined that the ballroom funding, as written, could not be included in the party-line budget bill":
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/reconciliation-senate-parliamentarian-pressure
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Barbara Comstock: "I saw the preparations for the Trump Arch today. Trump is trying to start another illegal project - his unsightly 'Trump Arch' which will be a huge eyesore and block the view from Arlington Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial, and be a danger to National Airport. STOP this now. And STOP the lying and grifting of our tax dollars."
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #WastefulSpending #politics -
Rep. Brendan Boyle: "Republicans always say America can't afford child care or affordable housing. But they always find the cash for whatever Trump wants — like the #IranWar or a vanity ballroom. Let's call this Republican spending package what it is: The Billion Dollar Ballroom Act."
#WastefulSpending #FraudWasteAndAbuse #corruption #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
"The political risk of spending taxpayer dollars on parts of a new White House ballroom has unsettled congressional Republicans who are questioning whether they can approve $1 billion:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/white-house-ballroom-blitz-00922587?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
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Rep. Joe Neguse: "As Americans struggle to afford groceries, the Trump administration is awarding millions of taxpayer dollars in no-bid contracts for the President’s vanity projects."
Examples include a billion dollar ballroom and the #IranWar.
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A one billion dollar ballroom? "When recent data reveals that inflation is at the highest level in three years and grocery prices are at the highest level in nearly four years, the last thing on any working person’s mind is funding a vanity project that most Americans don’t want. You know what else lawmakers shouldn’t be funding? The unchecked mass deportation machine that already got $190 billion in funding last year":
https://americasvoice.org/blog/1-billion-vanity-ballroom-for-me-costly-mass-deportations-for-you/
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Jesse Lee: "Trump’s first Defense budget, for fiscal year 2018, was $695 billion, and now they are asking for literally TWICE AS MUCH MONEY. Meanwhile, Hegseth is taking Kid Rock on helicopter joy rides, Trump is starting wars for fun, and we’re told we can’t afford healthcare anymore."
#WastefulSpending #values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics -
Burgess Everett: "Sen. Lindsey Graham's opponent, Annie Andrews, goes after him in interview on his support of taxpayers paying $1 billion for an East Wing ballroom. She said: 'That will go over like a lead balloon in South Carolina, and we will use that in our campaign every single day between now and the general election'."
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"CNN Ends Trump Ballroom Supercut With Brutal 2-Word Punchline":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-donald-trump-ballroom-supercut_n_69fae490e4b002c4c4a091b0?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#TrumpLiedAgain #FraudWasteAndAbuse #WastefulSpending #politics -
"Takeaways From Hegseth’s Testimony on Iran War and His Tenure. It was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first public appearance before Congress since Operation Epic Fury began in late February":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/hegseth-congress-hearing-takeaways.html
#military #incompetence #WastefulSpending #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure -
Using #taxpayers’ money to stay dependent on #FossilFuels & continue contributing to #ClimateChange
#Trump Admin to Pay $1 Billion to #Energy Giant to Cancel #WindFarms
In exchange, the French company #TotalEnergies would invest in #oil & natural #gas projects in Texas & elsewhere.
#WastefulSpending #law #ClimateSolutions #WindPower #wind
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Neera Tanden: "We are bailing out farmers because of Trump's inane tariff policies.
So we pay twice - for the tariffs, and for the government bailout they create."
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is requiring so much security,
it’s taking officers off of criminal investigations":
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/pete-hegseth-requiring-much-security-125845573.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANseOc6umFAAPb-Z6nX8SpeytAQctTRTWZK2GkXE4PgXiIiNJep_nLdpd4NuAaX40EkBjD4AHY5vw5ggcal-gXx8Eba5YnWSm4zpevWBs_Cx71fYOSNHxQ3MAPjyjBxTbiro-7OmDO7_0Dd9eaDdvyxkGlHebJ7JJ0awRVQx5rcD
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Christina Henderson: "These Governors (of West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina) pulling their National Guard troops away from their full-time jobs and their families, just to have them standing around being hot and bored in Washington DC for a photo-op is wild."
#Trump #incompetent #extremism #WastefulSpending #politics -
"The outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police issued an unusual public statement criticizing a reported settlement between Justice Department and the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed on #January6th 2021, by an officer guarding the House chamber. 'I am extremely disappointed and disagree with this settlement,' Chief Thomas Manger said":
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/19/congress/thomas-manger-blasts-jan-6-settlement-00357161
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I thought maybe that was $200 million each, but they're about $33m each per Wiki.
And who are we kidding? Those cost is maybe $100 in component parts, maybe as much as $1000 in labor. But the military industrial complex is fleecing taxpayers for $33 million each. (And they probably run on open source software forks.) That's ridiculous.
Grandma's social security & MCare are not bankrupting this country.
War profiteers are.
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Slipknot, Korn + More Included in U.S. Senator's 'Festivus' Report on Wasteful Government Spending
It's time for Senator Rand Paul's annual airing of grievances.#Festivus
#USSenators
#GovernmentSpending
#WastefulSpending
#USTaxpayers
#Slipknot
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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives:
https://lailluminator.com/2023/07/28/new-orleans-police-use-of-facial-recognition-nets-zero-arrests-in-9-months/