{"id":1453587,"date":"2022-04-26T07:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453587"},"modified":"2022-04-26T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:15:28","slug":"federal-fumbles-sen-lankford-unveils-latest-version-of-government-waste-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-fumbles-sen-lankford-unveils-latest-version-of-government-waste-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Fumbles: Sen. Lankford Unveils Latest Version of Government Waste Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-fumbles-sen-lankford-unveils-latest-version-of-government-waste-watch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Former White House senior policy adviser provides insight on the Trump tax cuts, the border crisis and the 2024 elections on &#8216;Kudlow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma on Monday released his latest report detailing what he sees as the worst examples of wasteful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/government-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spending<\/a> by the federal government, unveiling Volume 6 of his &#8220;Federal Fumbles&#8221; report as the national debt sits at a record $30 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Federal Fumbles is a to-do list for me and my team, and it\u2019s also a status update for Oklahomans who are concerned about waste, fraud, and abuse of their tax dollars and what is being done to stop it,&#8221; said Lankford, whose most recent edition of his football-themed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Federal_Fumbles_Vol_6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">publication<\/a> points to more than $10 trillion in examples of wasteful or duplicative spending.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/931\/523\/lankford.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Sen James Lankford\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>UNITED STATES &#8211; SEPTEMBER 22: Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks during the Senate Republicans press conference on the debt limit in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span> (Photo by Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lankford highlighted the top ten examples of government spending he found most egregious, beginning with what he called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;border boondoggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/entertainment\/chippendales-strippers-retain-dc-lobbyist-help-secure-pandemic-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHIPPENDALES STRIPPERS RETAIN DC LOBBYISTS TO HELP SECURE PANDEMIC AID<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden was so determined to leave the border open, he spent (read: wasted) well over $2 billion to not build fencing,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;Career professionals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/government-and-institutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS) had studied and recommended the wall system on our border, but Biden paid Department of Defense (DOD) contractors millions a day not to build the wall but to babysit the fence materials on the ground ready to be installed. Then after a year of public pressure, Biden agreed to \u2018close the gaps\u2019 in the border fence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/931\/523\/Biden-CC.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Joe Biden\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/span><span> (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci \/ AP Newsroom)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The report goes on to note that DHS now plans to deploy &#8220;robot dogs&#8221; that cost anywhere from $90,000 to $150,000 a piece to assist in patrolling America&#8217;s border with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/location-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lankford also decried the National Institutes of Health&#8217;s decision to award millions in funds to Peking University and the Chinese Center for Disease Control &#038; Prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the National Endowment of the Humanities&#8217; move to give $120,000 to two authors who write books on Russian art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/student-loan-cancellation-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CANCELING STUDENT LOAN DEBT \u2018STILL ON THE TABLE,\u2019 WHITE HOUSE SAYS: WHAT TO KNOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other wasteful spending examples included $15,000 in taxpayer dollars toward funding an opera about monkeys, $500,000 to revamp a New Hampshire ski club, $3 million for a fisherman&#8217;s co-op in Guam, and the Biden administration&#8217;s infamous $30 million grant program offering &#8220;safe smoking&#8221; kits that would help reduce the risks of smoking illicit substances such as crack cocaine or crystal methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/931\/523\/lankford-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Sen James Lankford\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing May 13, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.<\/span><span> (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool\/Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Lankford first launched his &#8220;Fumbles&#8221; report in 2015, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/fox-news-growing-the-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national debt<\/a> stood at roughly $18 trillion. Six years later, that number has nearly doubled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to identifying wasteful spending, his report offers ways the federal government can return to fiscal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need solutions to the issues we face, so Fumbles also focuses on recommendations for how to actually make the tough decisions, not just talk about them,&#8221; Lankford says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House senior policy adviser provides insight on the Trump tax cuts, the border crisis and the 2024 elections on &#8216;Kudlow.&#8217; Republican Sen. 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