You Name the Federal Agency and They are Targeted in Senator Lankford’s Latest Federal Fumbles Report

 

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It would seem that no federal agency escaped the wrath of U.S. Sen. James Lankford’s latest “Federal Fumbles” report where he cites 100 examples of what he calls wasteful federal government spending.

From the USDA to the EPA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the FAA, the DEA and to the Defense Department—–they made his list of $105 billion in bad government spending.

And he vowed that whether there is a Republican or Democrat in the White House, he will continue to publish his annual report.

For example, there is  the millions spent by the Interior Department reorganizing its oversight offices for offshore oil and gas production following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet it still utilizes policies and procedures that were created before the explosion.

Or how about the $180,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to count the sea duck population, when for 20 years it used a method that it knew or suspected as ineffective. There is the $2 million National Science Foundation grant to Michigan State University to assess any possible climate change impact on China’s giant panda population. That was two years ago and so far, it has only resulted in an 8-page report in Science magazine.

The Senator’s report cited President Obama’s War on Coal Miners, charging the unprecedented move to cripple American coal development “will cost Americans their jobs and harm our nation’s energy security.”

The Environmental Protection Agency was taken to task for using a $3 million five year grant to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission to lobby legislative changes of farming practices in Washington State.

The Obama administration was criticized in the report for not following through with any oversight of how the President’s pledge of more than $10 billion to the UN Green Climate would be spent.

The DEA and Defense Department were chided for spending more than $76 million on an ATR 500 aircraft over the past 8 years, originally with intentions of using it in counter-narcotics work in Afghanistan. The plane, purchased for $8.6 million but now valued at only $6 million,  has yet to fly and is still sitting on jacks in a hangar in Kabul.

Listen to part of the Senator’s news conference held on Monday.