From the linked article:
All told, federal taxpayers were on the hook for $2.7 trillion in payment errors between 2003 and 2023, according to the GAO.
As government spending watchdog Open the Books (OTB) tracks in a new report, 75 of a total of 441 federal agencies listed in the Federal Register are defunct, many for decades.
That’s the essence of government dysfunction.
“Record keeping within the Federal Register, which is supposed to be the definitive guide to government policy, is shockingly bad,” the report states. “Not only are agencies listed that are long-defunct, but records of those agencies are often not updated, so members of the public must conduct deep research to ascertain the composition of their own government.”
[One example of unnecessary spending of US tax-payers’ money - there are 11 more in the article:]
The State Department — $100,000 to Free to Run, Inc. The grant, which is set to expire at the end of May, was sold as a program for “Building Palestinian girls’ and young women’s resilience through … weekly running and wellness sessions". Free to Run’s founder, Stephanie Case, is a division chief for the the terrorist-tied United National Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Comment:
The US needs to pay for that? Why? And why all the others?
Trump will put a stop to it.