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Instead of infrastructure funds going to roads, highways and bridges, it is being diverted to waterfowl and fish in a basin shared by Oregon and California.
The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just The News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
This weekâs Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is spending an estimated $15 million in infrastructure funds on how to restore waterfowl, native fish and wildlife species habitats in the Klamath Basin.
The grant opportunity, âYear 1 Klamath Funding Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,â was posted in early March and is the first such project for the basin being funded from the Infrastructure Law through 2026, according to a grant opportunity listed on Grants.gov..
