While the U.S. Senate, for the first time in years, has adopted a budget, it includes $1 trillion in new taxes, adding to the record deficit.
The budget also doesn’t align with a House plan that spends hundreds of billions of dollars less. Both, however, project spending more than the government receives far into the future.
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But even so, frogs, Uganda and pine cone projects apparently are so important to the Obama administration that it’s worth borrowing money and paying interest to fund them.
Also, there’s high-priced construction of a new embassy in Mexico and the need to prevent crime – in El Salvador.
Despite the looming threats from overspending that has put the U.S. more than $16 trillion in debt, questionable spending priorities were found in database searches of federal documents.
Notable among recently launched initiatives is a State Department plan to design and build an embassy compound on 5.6 acres in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico – a venture that might cost close to $100 million.
“Continuing a legacy of outstanding diplomatic architecture, OBO [Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations] seeks to commission our nation’s top designers and constructors to create facilities of outstanding quality and value,” State said in a Request for Proposals, or RFP.
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