Congress pushes a fighter jet engine the military says it doesn't want or need. May 21, 2010 — -- President Obama says Congress has sunk billions into a military jet engine that the Defense ...

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Congress may spend billions more on a jet engine the Pentagon doesn't want. Jan. 21, 2011 — -- Despite vocal cries for austerity and belt-tightening on Capitol Hill, Congress and the White House, ...

Senator Ashley Moody co-sponsored the Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act to highlight over-budget federal projects, promoting transparency and fiscal responsibility.

President Joe Biden has rolled out his Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) plan, which will be subsidized by $42 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. That is an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global business and investing in emerging markets. And over the last couple of years, GameFi has become the newest ...

It’s billions of dollars over budget and seven years behind schedule, and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. Welcome ...

Last November, the Biden Federal Railroad Administration said that the nine components of Amtrak’s Gateway boondoggle would cost $40 billion, which didn’t include another $7 billion for fixing Penn ...

The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island. The $3.4 ...

The only good thing to be said about President Joe Biden‘s boondoggle of a 2025 budget proposal is that so long as House Republicans do not continue to immolate their own razor-thin majority, it will ...

Shocker alert: California’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco has been a monument to massive cost overruns and delays. And the situation continues to ...

Prompted by an email from Miriam Gross of Brighton, I look up “boondoggle.” Webster confirms that the word was coined by Robert H. Link. I hadn’t known that until Miriam wrote. She had been alerted to ...