wasteful

Indeed, it comes as the SBA claims to be putting a stop to political favoritism and wasteful spending.

But instead of facilitating this effort at greater efficiency, Coulter told Dudek to close the office, according to Dudek, claiming it was wasteful.

Hundreds of women wearing pink and wielding broomsticks marched to parliament in Indonesia's capital on Wednesday to protest against police abuses and wasteful government spending.

Administration officials have defended the cuts by pointing to what they call wasteful allocations, with their ire particularly focused on climate programs and projects promoting what they call liberal social values.

They swapped war stories about the government fraud they had exposed and the wasteful bureaucrats they had brought to heel.