The WasteBasket: A Weekly Bulletin on Government Waste

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Welcome the Waste Basket Issues Archive. Every issue since 1996 is available here, conveniently organized into one of the issue areas below:

• Agriculture: Read about a variety of agriculture-related federal spending issues.
• Budget: Read about general issues surrounding the federal budget and find examples of government waste.
• Space Policy: Learn more about space waste.
• Natural Resources : Find out about environmentally harmful spending, subsides and tax breaks.
• Transportation: Educate yourself on wasteful highway spending.
• National Security: Read about wasteful defense spending and accounting practices.
• Forest Service: Learn more about corporate welfare in our national forests.
• Water Policy and Army Corps of Engineers: Find out more about wasteful water projects, the Army Corps of Engineers and more.
• Snake River Dams: Read about four Lower Snake River dams, their effect on Pacific Northwest Salmon, and their heavy costs to federal taxpayers.