There’s one bloated federal government agency that routinely hands out money to millionaires, billionaires, insurance companies and even members of Congress. The handouts are supposed to be a safety net for certain rural business owners during tough years, but thousands of them have received the safety-net payments for 39 consecutive years. And tens of thousands of those recipients are actually city dwellers, including a resident of a Palm Beach mansion down the street from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

 

Elon Musk Should Take a Hard Look at One Agency Truly Wasting Taxpayer Dollars

By Michael Grunwald

Mr. Grunwald is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book “We Are Eating the Earth.”