The government may be wasting millions of dollars as a result.

Well if governments didn't waste their citizens' hard-earned money, then what would be left for governments to do?

If there is extra money, they believe, the government will waste it.

The government of the US wasted little time in funding two secret thermonuclear research projects.

I thought that government shouldn't be wasting its time trying to pick winners?

I think the UK's government shouldn't waste their tax payer's money on what will be another unproductive meeting.

And no, the government is not wasting public money.

By focusing only on schools, government may waste money trying to fix academic problems that it could have prevented in the first place at less expense.

Our Federal, state and local governments now waste billions of dollars on futile attempts at enforcement.

They charged that the government was taking away worker protections, wasting taxpayer money and giving business a chance to make windfall profits.