Calling it a “billion-dollar boondoggle,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) named a chronically over-budget and behind-schedule public transportation project in the nation’s capital as the winner of her latest Squeal Award highlighting waste and fraud in government spending.
“The National Capital Purple Line, which was supposed to connect Washington D.C.’s subway lines in the Maryland suburbs, is on track to being yet another billion-dollar-boondoggle. It was over budget and behind schedule before it even started,“ Ernst said in a statement made available to The Epoch Times on June 29.
