He has called it a "boondoggle" and wants it stopped.
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Did the company gain anything at all by this boondoggle?
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However, along the way, it got turned into a federalized boondoggle.
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Honestly, there's probably no way this boondoggle of a product succeeds.
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China has seen its share of boondoggle infrastructure projects and overinvestment.
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Critics of the jet have called the program a costly boondoggle.
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All over a border wall boondoggle Trump promised Mexico would pay for.
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Santiago Calatrava's dinosaur skeleton station has long been described as a boondoggle.
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Initially, a public option would be just another money-losing government boondoggle.
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But the half-billion dollar boondoggle is a failure by any measure.
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Much (but not all) of this boondoggle was financed by D.C. taxpayers.
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Members of Congress have described the project as more boondoggle than boon.
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Hall sees an expensive boondoggle that drains funds you could be saving.
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" Mr. Fox explains why the pass-through tax cut is a "boondoggle.
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Taxpayers should steer clear or risk getting railroaded into paying for this boondoggle.
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It risks becoming a fool's errand on par with the Republicans' Benghazi boondoggle.
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This is supposed to save taxpayer money, but it's actually a private boondoggle.
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One could argue—and some have—this was just a big Pentagon boondoggle.
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And the breadth of his ambitions certainly raises the risk of a boondoggle.
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"First to name these #notable #camp #patterns gets a free boondoggle bundle," she wrote.
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Headlines had blared the system's failure, and critics on Twitter scoffed at Slat's boondoggle.
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Then as now, the border wall project promises to be an enormous construction boondoggle.
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It became a 450-foot-long boondoggle, a pedestrian bridge that bounced more than expected.
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Many Mexicans view the airport project as a boondoggle for an out-of-touch elite.
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I, for one, am glad this colossal boondoggle of a film is on the horizon.
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Getting it right could mean the difference between a boon for security and a boondoggle.
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Surely there are three such lawmakers with the integrity and decency to stop this boondoggle.
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At present, budget instability has made budgeting an annual boondoggle, rather than a strategic exercise.
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That's why the diet industry in this country is a Sisyphean boondoggle worth $66 billion.
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My humble request: Someone at Google, please secretly record the post-mortem meeting on this boondoggle.
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If the CBO scoring reflects a boondoggle, health care stocks are likely to take a hit.
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In lawsuits, they contended that Westway would be a harmful boondoggle for highway and construction interests.
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Despite the Burning Man-like shenanigans, this was no wealthy bohemian boondoggle or corporate branding bonanza.
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This isn't just a feel-good experiment in civics, nor is it a public transit boondoggle.
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Or it can be a horrible boondoggle that saps your savings and cracks your nest egg.
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Before releasing the first batch of results, Price apologized for the boondoggle from the night before.
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Many F.B.I. agents saw that inquiry as a boondoggle and view Mr. Gowdy as highly partisan.
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"We don't want to ever be viewed as a boondoggle," Context's Ron Biscardi said in an interview.
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He portrayed the 2010 regulatory overhaul as a boondoggle that has put smaller bankers out of business.
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Critics have decried the F-2900 program, the most expensive weapons program in history, as a boondoggle.
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But agreeing to host the event and then having to cancel the races would be a boondoggle.
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Political partisans pointed fingers, as the NBN went terribly over budget, and looked to be a boondoggle.
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Is public infrastructure a boondoggle, or does it lower transaction costs, in line with the Coase Theorem?
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What could Facebook gain by undertaking this boondoggle, especially one reported to be pursuing end-to-end encryption?
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Critics often point to so-called fusion centers—regional hubs for information sharing—as the quintessential DHS boondoggle.
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"President Trump's multi-billion dollar border wall boondoggle is strongly opposed by Democrats and many Republicans," she said.
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It is perhaps the greatest stadium boondoggle in history and maybe the most expensive stadium in the world.
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The report released by the Washington Post demonstrates perfectly the bipartisan boondoggle that is the war in Afghanistan.
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One such example is the Obama administration's efforts to shove more kids into the boondoggle that is Head Start.
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The bill would also slash the funding authorized for a controversial blimp program that lawmakers have labeled a boondoggle.
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The F-35 program, the most expensive weapons program in history, has been decried by critics as a boondoggle.
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That was the Silicon Valley-based, taxpayer-funded, green energy boondoggle that even President Obama won't defend in public.
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Every new detail or wrongdoing will be judged, just as setbacks in Iraq were after the "Mission Accomplished" boondoggle.
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NASA is a seeming government boondoggle that has not only put men on the moon but that has explored mars.
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So much about Donald Trump's rumored news network, usually called Trump TV, sounds like another Trumpian boondoggle in the making.
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Last, but not least, they put a stop to the fiscally irresponsible Aguirre Offshore GasPort project, PREPA's $400 million boondoggle.
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"Cannes is anything but a boondoggle," declared Mr. Kassan as his chief of staff popped open a bottle of rosé.
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That might not seem like such a boondoggle in New York City, where annual tuition is often four times that.
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ObamaCare has failed miserably because it lacks free-market principles and is a one-size-fits all, centrally planned boondoggle.
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Refiners argue the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has always been unwieldy and the latest rules are a pro-agribusiness boondoggle.
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Critics have long slammed Lockheed Martin's F-35 program, estimated to cost $400 billion for 21625,2900 planes, as a costly boondoggle.
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Migration of federal IT systems to cloud services could be a boon if done right, or an expensive boondoggle if mishandled.
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Some outside economists, including Roger Noll, a Stanford professor, had panned the deal as a boondoggle based on outlandish financial expectations.
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The $400 billion F-35 program, the most expensive weapons program in history, has been decried by critics as a boondoggle.
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Frank Pallone — who requested the study last year — blasted the work requirements and called them "a boondoggle" in a press release.
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Deb is off on another boondoggle — I mean assignment — and she's once again desperate enough to have me mind the store.
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Another expensive boondoggle by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that the government needs to reevaluate its celestial spending.
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Furthermore, from a fiscal standpoint, the handouts and subsidies would compound the disastrous spending seen in the $1.3 trillion omnibus boondoggle.
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" Given that acknowledgment, the official said, the administration had a responsibility to taxpayers to "cancel the financial support for this boondoggle.
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" Then maybe you'll like "Boondoggle," a new comedy starring "Modern Family's" Ty Burrell, where Burrell plays a character called "Ty Burrell.
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"This is an enormous boondoggle for the private prison industry," said Carl Takei, a staff attorney at the ACLU's National Prison Project.
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I wrote about the boondoggle just a few weeks ago, as had Bruce Murphy at The Verge a few weeks before that.
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The report echoed long-standing criticism from security experts who say the program is a much-delayed boondoggle that is already obsolete.
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But Walker's Foxconn boondoggle played a major role in the loss of his status as one of the GOP's highest-profile governors.
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And at first blush, Mr. Calatrava's architecture can almost — almost — make you forget what an epic boondoggle the whole thing has been.
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The report echoed long-standing criticism from security experts who describe the program as a much-delayed boondoggle that is already outdated.
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The report echoed long-standing criticism from security experts who describe the program as a much-delayed boondoggle that is already outdated.
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It is not an accident that words such as boondoggle, pork barrel and crony capitalism are often associated with the public sector.
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Democrats balked at those demands, given that Republicans did not bother to offset the loss of revenue from their boondoggle tax cuts.
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Conservatives often reflexively dismiss infrastructure spending as a boondoggle, and liberals, perhaps in reaction, often reflexively defend it, no matter how wasteful.
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They describe it as an overpriced boondoggle, another huge government bureaucracy, anti-family, a way of imposing liberal values on helpless children.
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"We want to replace the perception that this is a boondoggle with the reality of what is being offered here," Nolte told Reuters.
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This boondoggle will forever be associated with Amazon Cuomo's administration, though he'll be out of office long before its worst effects are felt.
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India has also sharply criticised China's broader, pan-Asian Belt and Road Initiative as a boondoggle that will trap smaller countries in debt.
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And the M-1 Rail project in Detroit, slated to open in 2017, has already drawn critics using the dreaded "B" word: boondoggle.
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At the same time, the bloated Department of Homeland Security turned into a boondoggle—an opinion shared across the political spectrum for years.
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But the tax cuts have now led the Republican Party to push the other half of their financial boondoggle: Cutting social welfare programs.
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"This has been a boondoggle tax expenditure," said Robert J. Shapiro, a former Commerce Department official who founded the economic advisory firm Sonecon.
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Key among those was his decision to scale back high-speed rail, which Republicans in the state have derided as an expensive boondoggle.
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It began with Jill Stein's ill-conceived recount, a more than $7 million boondoggle that ended up netting more votes for the President-elect.
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In reality it took several months to prepare each orbiter for flight, which is the main reason the Shuttle proved such an expensive boondoggle.
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The Trump administration has railed against Medicare for all as an expensive and inefficient boondoggle that would shrink gross domestic product and household incomes.
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And the announcement of Tillerson's ouster was followed by a return to the regularly scheduled publicity tour to showcase the Mexican border wall boondoggle.
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Even Murray Seasongood, the posh city manager who was most responsible for its demise, didn't seem to understand his own role in the boondoggle.
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It had its fans, but many more detractors, with some calling it a boondoggle and others saying the new Ara was too heavily compromised.
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The rule's transformation from boon to boondoggle, as laid out in a draft of Mr. Pruitt's plan to repeal it, is thus pure illusion.
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How could anyone justify this expense-account boondoggle — or any of the similar annual corporate excursions to Aspen, Davos, Sun Valley or Jackson Hole?
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As is "Boondock Saints," an elaborate 1999 boondoggle of a crime picture that has somehow managed to attract a cult, also starring Mr. Dafoe.
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Importantly, Reagan's stubborn insistence on maintaining his technological boondoggle prevented the United States and the Soviet Union from eliminating all of their nuclear weapons.
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Any policy that helps higher skilled or wealthier citizens and immigrants alike reflexively gets attacked by liberal critics as another "trickle-down economics" boondoggle.
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Why would he be happy about a plan that contains no more funding for his boondoggle than the compromise he turned down in December?
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"This is going to create a boondoggle for the private prison industry," Joanne Lin, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told me.
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As one note, I found the criticism that Jony wanted a gold watch so that made the Apple Watch a boondoggle to be enormously hilarious.
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The EU proposal doubles down on this failed, $60,000,000 American corporate boondoggle and turns into European law, but expanded to every kind of copyrighted work.
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"President Trump's multi-billion dollar border wall boondoggle is strongly opposed by Democrats and many Republicans," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
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It's too early to call it a complete boondoggle with certainty since Facebook is supposedly playing a longer game here, but it sure isn't promising.
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The politics of the proposal are also suspect; it looks like a boondoggle to coal bosses who backed President Donald Trump's election campaign (see article).
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Does Bernie want to build a multibillion-dollar boondoggle of a wall, or use a new immigration police force to round up 11 million people?
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Since the Republican healthcare bill went from an unpopular boondoggle to an outright failure last month, Democrats have started to shift from defense to offense.
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Elsewhere at the cineplex this weekend, and unfortunately for Mortal Engines fans, the box office wasn't especially kind to the Peter Jackson steampunk fantasy boondoggle.
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In the coming days, Congress has an opportunity to begin unraveling a billion dollar boondoggle that's been fleecing American taxpayers for more than a decade.
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The new plan attracted criticism from Democrats who predictably said it would raise the cost of insurance and ultimately be a boondoggle for insurance companies.
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Despite the fact that no invasion is underway and that many politicians along the border reject it, Trump has continued to promote this boondoggle idea.
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In the city that hosts the U.S. Open, playing tennis on a regular basis can feel like an administrative and logistical boondoggle for New Yorkers.
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The fate of this boondoggle rests with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an independent regulator that is not bound to do what the administration wants.
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The fight over the proposed 22019 miles of high-speed rail has long pitted California Republicans, who say the project is a government boondoggle, against Gov.
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A refresher on the fighter: The $400 billion F-35 program, the most expensive weapons program in history, has been decried by critics as a boondoggle.
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Two conservative groups, the National Election Defense Coalition and FreedomWorks, called the voting-machine deal a "boondoggle" in a letter last week to state Senate Republicans.
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"This report is yet another sign that Medicaid work requirements have been a boondoggle from the start and should be ended immediately," Wyden and Pallone said.
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A few councilors had already raised concerns, calling it a classic public works boondoggle designed to siphon money into the pockets of politicians and their allies.
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Cheveley publishes her evidence — a letter divulging classified government information — or violate his conscience by publicly supporting a boondoggle in which she has invested a fortune.
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Opportunity Zones have been hailed as a boon for the poor, and lambasted as a boondoggle for the rich, but how would anyone know for sure?
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But what Sallie Mae wanted to preserve was widely criticized as a taxpayer boondoggle — and the company has drawn the ire of progressives like Massachusetts Sen.
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But you can't watch "Boondoggle" on ABC's network — you've got to watch it online, via ABC's website or one of its mobile or connected TV apps.
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There's even been a decades-long effort to pull rare-earth minerals from the ocean floor, a boondoggle with a cast of characters that includes the CIA.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, Eli Broad and LA charter schools, Calatrava's new Manhattan boondoggle, selfie politics, Umberto Eco and Donald Trump, and more.
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Some of the most engaged conservative voters, they said, are less willing to let slide a special tax break or earmarked boondoggle, even one benefiting their state.
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The F-35 is a jet that's supposed to be all things to all people, an ever-expanding boondoggle soaking the American taxpayer for billions of dollars.
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Border Patrol agents like Cabrera, local police, elected officials, and people who live with the existing wall in their backyards say it has been an epic boondoggle.
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The project is widely considered a boondoggle, as the subsidies now look like they'll cost taxpayers anywhere from $220,000 to as much as $1 million per job generated.
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Here's a quick refresher of what that "boondoggle" is: Medicare pays hospitals for their services and adjusts those payments every year based on local labor costs and wages.
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Even if they are, he'll have to find enough Republicans will be willing to put their names on a multi-billion project that could turn into a boondoggle.
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Just think back to the NYPD's hashtag boondoggle for an example of how quickly things can go wrong when big institutions try to control messaging on the internet.
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No. I just don't think this take on the Suicide Squad works, and the plot makes it pretty clear that the whole thing was a boondoggle worth forgetting.
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It's hard not to look at all of it and wonder what would have happened if the boondoggle known as Google+ hadn't distracted so much of the company.
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They saw support for it by the previous government as a boondoggle to a technology whose main selling point was that Britain led the world in its use.
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The speed with which this second intervention is evolving is alarming, and it suggests it could well morph into a much bigger boondoggle in the relatively near future.
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In the era of boondoggle government, that additional action by the administration would clearly demonstrate that we are exercising our very best intentions as we put America first!
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You would think after the boondoggle of the Florida Recount in the 2000 Presidential Election, there would have been legislation passed that insured uniform standards for federal elections.
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Just think back to the NYPD's hashtag boondoggle for an example of how quickly things can go wrong when big institutions try to control messaging on the internet.
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Republicans call the clean-energy effort a boondoggle, exemplified by Solyndra, a solar panel company that went bankrupt and cost the government more than $500 million in loan guarantees.
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Decried by critics as a boondoggle, the program has been beset by cost overruns, with software delays for the jets, corrosion and problems with tire durability and ejection seats.
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Question: What happens when a senator is determined to keep the money flowing into his state for a budget-busting boondoggle that's wasting billions of dollars of taxpayers' money?
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The U.S. government's leading oversight authority for Afghanistan reconstruction on Tuesday said there is a criminal investigation into the $28 million boondoggle for forest camouflage for the Afghan army.
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It is not winning China friends or prestige and may yet become the world's greatest economic boondoggle, a litany of projects the totality of whose purpose remains a mystery.
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The company is launching it more broadly just in time for Cannes, the ad industry's biggest boondoggle of the year, set for next week in the South of France.
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Some residents of Block Island see the wind farm as a $300 million boondoggle, one that's keeping electricity prices artificially high while spoiling their otherwise pristine view of the sea.
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In the show, Black Lives Matter is presented as a kind of boondoggle organized by the manipulative villain, and the only police shown directly abusing black people are black themselves.
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I also looked at California High Speed Rail and the massively spiraling costs of that boondoggle, as well as some of the startups trying to improve efficiency in that category.
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Google, General Electric, Chevron, BP, and Statoil are among a host of companies that own Ivanpah, the solar farm boondoggle that has cost Californians and federal taxpayers hundreds of millions.
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Diana Christopolous, a local environmental activist who serves as president of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club, described the MVP as a "cash boondoggle" in a conversation with me on Friday.
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His purchase was decried by some as a boondoggle and alarmist, and his successor took office in 2016 planning to shift priorities and making no plans for people to leave.
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Neither of these morally unassailable policies ought to be held hostage to a boondoggle of a border wall or the dismantling of our legal immigration system's emphasis on family unity.
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But I'll bite: I'm not an expert on Las Vegas politics or demographics, and in my opinion no public financing for these giant boondoggle stadia is ever a good idea.
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The walls we need to build are flood walls to protect Houston's populace as well as its shipping and oil and gas industries, not a boondoggle of a border wall.
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One could argue that the U.S. departure from Iraq is long overdue, and the U.S. role as the world's policeman is an expensive boondoggle that Americans can no longer afford.
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But it still takes a total boondoggle to completely lose your shirt, especially in television, where a single Friends can keep raking in cash for decades after it leaves the air.
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It's worth noting that public opinion polls showed solid support for the Amazon boondoggle, and that some industry groups in New York are in public mourning over the company's scuttled plans.
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In the US, the technology has gotten a reputation as an awful boondoggle, especially after a major project to demonstrate coal with carbon capture in Kemper, Mississippi turned into a fiasco.
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"We will stop the C$4 billion boondoggle and let the private sector risk its own money rather than imposing the risk on taxpayers," Kenney told a news conference on Monday.
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"We feel like it's going to be another giveaway boondoggle for the rich, just like Hudson Yards," said Emily Sharpe, a lawyer and founder of the Coalition to Stop Sunnyside Yards.
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We need only look to California, which just abandoned its high-speed rail boondoggle due to ever-skyrocketing costs, to see that even a $85033 billion estimate is likely way off.
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Fortunately, there is still time for EXIM's board to stop U.S. financing of this boondoggle from going forward when the board takes its final vote on the project on Sept. 26.
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The bigger question of whether it's "worth it" or a boondoggle involves a different calculus and arrives at a different answer for each country, or even each user within a country.
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And while this should surprise absolutely no one at this point, both contain requests for public money, though it's far less of a colossal boondoggle than the Raiders' new Las Vegas home.
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President Trump's latest boondoggle would undo hard-fought progress to preserve the world's largest remaining temperate rainforest, at a time when the future of our planet depends on it more than ever.
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An Irish boondoggle Trump's refusal to fully divest from his businesses and relentless promotion of his properties as President underscores how he has used his political career to benefit his bottom line.
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Energy policy experts, advocates in the fight on poverty and even other farmers say a law that has been a boon for Iowa has been a boondoggle to the rest of the country.
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LOS ANGELES — In Hollywood a long-gestating, oft-delayed, over-budget boondoggle of a project is finally ready to make its debut — and no, it's not about to hit the theaters this summer.
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Amazon now faces a policy and PR boondoggle it may not have expected after forcing hundreds of cities and regions to compete for the chance to become a home to its second headquarters.
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But no one can say for sure what exactly the plan encompasses, and detractors warn it could be an expensive boondoggle at best or a massive expansion of Chinese imperial power at worst.
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The plane, as my colleague Sam Ellis explains, is a bit of a boondoggle — the Air Force loves its high-tech capabilities, but the plane is far too expensive relative to its utility.
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Realizing this might be an issue, Mattel put together a team to create a second keyboard platform, called the Basic Discovery System, that would provide the promised basic functionality, without the attached boondoggle.
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The wall is both an administrative boondoggle and a moral travesty, an idiotic project that will be effectual only as a symbol of the racism at the heart of the administration's immigration agenda.
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The extra cost of the IAEA's massive inspection program is estimated at about $10.1 million - less than what U.S. taxpayers spend in half a day on the boondoggle of the F-35 fighter jet.
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There is good reason to believe that bad economic news—a wheezing stock market, a trade war that's become an increasingly costly boondoggle, and, above all, a looming recession—inspired the week of tantrums.
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Depending on whom you talk to, his creation is viewed as a magnificent achievement that has nurtured the world, or a brilliant boondoggle that prizes chat above action and revenue above the public good.
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Mr. Trump's statement also appears to scuttle — for now — his longstanding hope to deliver on a campaign promise to withdraw American troops from an 18-year conflict that he has called an aimless boondoggle.
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The right will rush to define the GND as a silly, ridiculous, naive, unaffordable government boondoggle meant to destroy your way of life and funnel your taxpayer money to Democratic constituencies like illegal immigrants.
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Mr. Beck first visited Palau, about 600 miles east of the Philippines, in 1976, on what he remembered as a "boondoggle" to study the potential environmental impact on coral reefs of a proposed petroleum superport.
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The good news is that we have examples of state policy changes that have moved away from sweeping, boondoggle approaches to community corrections in favor of methods that deliver on the promise of public safety.
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The White House, calling the practice "taxpayer-funded union time," had portrayed it as a boondoggle in which government employees were paid to advance the political aims of their unions while shirking their official responsibilities.
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These institutions, paid handsomely by the sheikhs and sheikhas of the United Arab Emirates to expand to the Middle East, are essentially luxury amenities for a monumental real estate boondoggle in a politically repressive state.
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The Beeb assistant might be a boondoggle, a waste of British taxpayer money, and a classic example of the BBC making a tech thing without a super clear reason or need just because it can.
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Some of them have a different approach from a traditional ABC show, too: "You fucked us, Ty Burrell!" is the opening line of the first episode of "Boondoggle" — and the f-bomb isn't bleeped out.
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So far, carbon capture and storage has been a boondoggle in the United States, after the high-profile failure of a $7.5 billion CCS power plant project in Mississippi and general concerns about the technology's expense.
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" Jill, now appealing to the hungrier side of her co-founder's psyche, offered, "If we stick this through, we can at least save this boondoggle and get something out of the years we've spent on this.
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There's more character building in the theme song for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV cartoon from the '80s ("Raphael is cool but rude / Michelangelo is a party dude") than there is in this boondoggle.
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And in an infamous episode, an Assembly speaker, Sheldon N. Silver, demanded that a pet project be funded to a satisfactorily boondoggle-ish level, pointedly mentioning that he would soon be looking at the capital budget.
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On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Defy Media President Keith Richman talked about his stable of hot YouTube properties, like comedy duo Smosh, "Honest Trailers" producers ScreenJunkies and pop-culture boondoggle Clevver.
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Although the Zune is remembered more for being a colossal boondoggle than a great music player, it was very much the latter, and I still use and marvel at the usability of my Zune HD. Yes, seriously.
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When Pompeo got to Congress, he argued that wind power was an expensive boondoggle and campaigned to end a production tax credit for wind technology, even though, not long before, he had personally invested in Sunflower Wind.
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For the Volt, which received so much attention when it launched, it's natural that its boosters would claim every sale as a victory, while nothing would satisfy those who think of it as a "Government Motors" boondoggle.
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They derided the Fiji purchase, for nearly $7 million, as a boondoggle; dismissed his "migration with dignity" as a contradiction in terms; and called his talk of rising sea levels alarmist and an affront to divine will.
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Only individuals who die with more than $5.5 million, and married couples with more than $11 million of net wealth, face this so-called death tax, so its repeal would be a boondoggle for the billionaire class.
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The gambit to open offshore oil drilling along the East Coast and the seismic testing that would accompany such a boondoggle has the potential to damage fisheries from redfish off the Carolinas to bluefish off New England.
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The new secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, could be acceding to California's 14 Republican members of Congress, who feel electrification would benefit a high-speed rail line, being built by the state, that they consider a boondoggle.
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For cynics, it is a boondoggle plagued by delays (it began in 2007 and was supposed to begin experiments in 2016, but this will not now happen until 2025), questionable management and ballooning costs (double the original estimate).
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That's something of an understatement; the Wii U is widely considered something of a boondoggle, interesting but confusing and hugely outgunned by the competition when it came to what was valued by the rapidly growing mainstream gaming world.
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The Obama administration has proposed to cancel this boondoggle and pursue a "dilute and dispose" alternative that would simply mix the plutonium with inert materials to make it more difficult to recover and dispose of it as waste.
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CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times In the city that hosts the United States Open, playing the sport on a regular basis can feel like an administrative and logistical boondoggle for tennis-loving New Yorkers like myself.
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I was thinking about the painter himself and this whole thing as a kind of boondoggle — this kind of burden to him, the way that the whole of Western art felt burdensome to American artists at the time.
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About a dozen years later, in what was called the Bay State Boondoggle, John Kerry, then a senator, succeeded in lobbying for Medicare to pay Massachusetts' urban hospitals at the same rate it paid the state's rural hospitals.
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Apparently, we're going to have to start referring to controversial topics getting "the John Oliver treatment," as the HBO funnyman did an explainer of the Apple-FBI boondoggle nearly as epic as his #MakeAmericaDrumpfAgain takedown of Donald Trump.
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It was 1994 and the land once known as "Trump City" was an embarrassing boondoggle, crumbling at the feet of an erratic namesake who took out $400 million in loans and seemed all too willing to default on more.
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Pinker described "neural enhancement" for healthy brains as being a "boondoggle," but he suggested that there could be some benefit for people suffering from brain-related diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Critics of the program see the A.P.'s expansion as a boondoggle, with scarce resources being thrown at a program that simply wasn't designed to address the systemic problems facing public education — at a real cost to these students.
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This ep, Richard reveals to Jared that he knows about this boondoggle, but he doesn't care because the company is about to go under, so in a few weeks the whole misstep will be buried under Pied Piper rubble.
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While the question of local government subsidies to entice businesses remains an urgent one (see, for example, The Verge's exposé of Scott Walker's disastrous $4.1 billion Foxconn boondoggle), the HQ2 drama in many ways reveals an even bigger policy failure.
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Far from being the illegitimate boondoggle that critics want to make it out to be, the 2020 census is shaping up to be a well-resourced one asking questions that cut to the heart of what it means to be American.
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A 2100.5-mile light-rail line to connect the city's impoverished west side to its more affluent east side, the project was weeks away from breaking ground in 2.63 when Maryland's Republican governor dubbed it a "boondoggle" and pulled the plug.
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On Capitol Hill, lawmakers in both parties openly questioned the President's decision to tap Jackson, one largely made out of personal affinity, and were skeptical that he had the experience to lead an agency that is known as a management boondoggle.
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"This year's funding bill makes tremendous investments in our veterans and military families, rebuilds our national security infrastructure, and soundly rejects President Trump's attempt to steal funds from our armed services to pay for a nativist, border wall boondoggle," Rep.
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Greetings from Cannes Lions, the annual advertising boondoggle in the South of France where the ad industry gathers to wheel and deal, take advantage of lavish expense reports, and where drinking rosé is acceptable at any time of the day.
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Indeed, depending on whom you ask, the Renewable Fuel Standard is either one of the best policy decisions to come out of Washington in decades or a special-interest boondoggle that costs taxpayers billions of dollars and harms the environment.
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The following month, Ultrafarma made an official donation to the municipality, this time in the form of prime-time TV advertisements for Mr. Doria's controversial cleanup program "Cidade Linda" (Beautiful City), which has been criticized by many citizens as a boondoggle.
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Jon Kragh of Greenbrae: While I am no fan of the president, I also believe the 'fast train' was a boondoggle of the highest order and believe we should return the money to the federal government (since the project was cancelled).
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The question of local government subsidies to entice businesses remains an urgent one (see, for example, The Verge's exposé of Scott Walker's disastrous $217 billion Foxconn boondoggle), but the HQ220 drama in many ways reveals an even bigger policy failure than that.
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And groups like Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense have sharply criticized the push to expand Section 45Q, pointing out that it would send hundreds of millions of dollars to Southern Company to finance its coal boondoggle in Kemper, Mississippi.
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In an announcement of the successes the space program had achieved in 2014 Kokorich co-authored a piece with the Russian cosmonaut Sergey Zhukov, who remains the executive director of the networking and aerospace programs at the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle startup incubator.
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For the same reason, in February, the senator also filed the "The Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act," which would require an annual report to taxpayers listing every government-funded project that is more than $1 billion over budget or five years behind schedule.
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Read this New York Times story for a capsule history of the divisive project, and urbanist Aaron Renn's blog (start here) for why it has been, like most giant freeway projects, a huge boondoggle that will cost more and carry fewer drivers than projected.
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But opponents cite another simple reason the project should be stopped: After a decade of flat demand for electricity and the emergence of cheaper energy alternatives, the dam, they say, is an enormous boondoggle that will saddle taxpayers with huge debts for generations to come.
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In Saturday Night Live's first episode of 2017, Alec Baldwin returned once again to reprise his role as Donald Trump, and the show set its sights on the biggest news boondoggle of the week: the president-elect's first press conference since winning the election.
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His move drew the ire of conservative groups that have suggested expansion is an unaffordable boondoggle that ultimately will leave states on the hook when the feds stop paying bills After largely ignoring the issue in New England, Bush suddenly can't stop talking about it.
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"There will be moral judgments on what's under the tree this year for sure," said Marian Salzman, a trend spotter, author and early public-relations promoter of Giving Tuesday, which retailers have sometimes turned into a shopping boondoggle that conflates consumption with charitable donations.
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The GEO contract stands to be something of a boondoggle, since it emerged out of a last-minute scramble by ICE to successfully issue contracts for three California facilities right before a state law phasing out the use of private prisons went into effect.
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At the start of the Winter Olympics two weeks ago, the nasty, brutish and short (and endlessly mockable) state known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea demonstrated it has the wits to boondoggle the gullible with a combination of glitz and sophisticated propaganda.
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The title story is the best in this fine collection, a novella-length account of the 60-day island-hopping boondoggle he took through the Caribbean for a glossy travel magazine, joined by Chase, a University of Alabama professor who would soon become his fourth wife.
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The sweetheart deal came at the expense of nearly every other hospital in the U.S. Known to many as the "Bay State Boondoggle," the sleight of hand has already resulted in $2628 billion in additional payments to Massachusetts hospitals and could reach $28503 billion throughout 22019 years.
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Since the expiration of the AWB in 2004, even ardent anti-gun types like UCLA's Adam Winkler, the NYT's Nick Kristof, and Pro Publica have recognized it as a misguided boondoggle that didn't save lives and did serve as a powerful fundraising aid for the NRA and GOP.
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This boondoggle would pave the way (at taxpayer expense) for oil tanker trucks bound from the Uinta Basin to railheads along Interstate 70, and accelerate oil and gas drilling and facilitate oil shale and tar-sands mining in the southern Uinta Basin and in the wild Book Cliffs.
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"President Trump's multibillion dollar border wall boondoggle is strongly opposed by Democrats and many Republicans," House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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"For six years, we've seen firsthand Mayor de Blasio's staggering inability to address critical issues like our city's skyrocketing homelessness rate, and his uncanny ability to make city services — like his billion-dollar mental health boondoggle, ThriveNYC — even worse," Lynch said in a statement provided to VICE News.
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But to me and to millions of Americans who may eventually hear about her if she's the nominee, it demonstrates a known and strange pattern of misrepresenting yourself, doubling down when caught, and ultimately refusing to grapple with just how much of a boondoggle that you've gotten yourself into.
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"I have every reason to think that given the shoddy work that Mr. Kobach has done in this area in the past that this is going to be yet another boondoggle and a propaganda tool that tries to inflate the problem of double registration beyond what it actually is," Ho said.
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What's clear is that local governments in China and the country's state-owned enterprises see promise in new mobility infrastructure investment — and look at hyperloop technologies and their offshoots as a potentially more attractive investment option than other infrastructure developments that the government might view as more of a boondoggle.
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The Fyre Festival, which imploded publicly and spectacularly in April 2017, was meant to be the ne plus ultra of music festivals — an opportunity for moderate-level influencers to get up close and personal with peak-level influencers, and the beginning of a boondoggle empire for the entrepreneur Billy McFarland.
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Like any shared workspace in 2017, some of the start-ups are operating on a Twitter feed and a dream while others are, well, THINX, whose controversial ads are papered all over the subway system and who has already been the victim of an honest-to-god founder/executive boondoggle.
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This whole thing might sound like a bit of a boondoggle, but one of the most interesting potential use cases for VR is actually in engineering and design, where the ability to prototype virtually and make changes prior to creating full-scale physical models can save a lot of time and effort.
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Here's hoping it turns out better than the previous UK dance music "take over" of America, the dénouement of which was Sasha & Digweed's Delta Heavy tour, a boondoggle that allegedly cost the duo loads of cash while failing to turn the tide against American's already souring taste for what was still being called electronica.
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I saw many better films in Toronto, but I didn't see one as fun to argue about as this film, which, depending on your point of view, is either a hilariously successful blend of camp comedy and dark revenge thriller, with a healthy dash of metafiction, or a complete boondoggle that bites off far more than it can chew.
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"Your border security presentation submitted to Congress today is yet another example of the misinformation and outright lies the Trump Administration has used to make the case for the President's boondoggle border wall, defend the government shutdown, and distract the American people from a border policy so flawed that children have died in Department of Homeland Security custody," he wrote.
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"The bad news is that all the broadband in the world isn't going to transform rural America into God's Little Acre any more than a massively subsidized high-speed broadband boondoggle has turned Chattanooga in Blackburn's Tennessee into a bustling hub of activity (the city's population growth since 2000 is actually lower than the state's rate of 15 percent)," he argued.
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With Trump in the White House, a Republican-controlled Congress would be able to pass into law any legislation it wants: Abolishing departments, ending environmental protection, re-instituting torture, sending troops against ISIS, banning Muslims from U.S. entry and observing Muslim citizens, establishing Trump's Deportation Force, building the boondoggle of a "big, beautiful wall" while attempting to coerce an ally into paying for it.
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Ray has close ties to the career criminal Frank Semyon (Vince Vaughn), and their lives are upended by the murder of a double-dealing city manager named Ben Caspere — a case that also ensnares the highway patrol officer Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) and criminal investigator Antigone Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) within a tangled web that also involved a high-speed rail boondoggle, a deadly shootout at a meth lab and secret sex parties of the political elite.
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"If Republicans can toy with the idea of spending billions of dollars on a boondoggle like Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's border wall, certainly responsible Members of Congress can find the will and the funding to ensure 3.4 million American citizens in Puerto Rico have access to quality healthcare," she added.
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