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In addition to creating the bogus accounts, which were designed to spread misinformation and influence US voters, Facebook said the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on over 3000 ads displayed around the time of the election.

Facebook previously reported that the Internet Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on Facebook ads that reached 10 million users.

The agency spent $ 700,000.

In response to ESD's repeated delays and denials of Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, Reclaim New York (Reclaim) filed a lawsuit today in State Supreme Court against New York State's lead economic development agency to obtain public records related to how the agency spent $ 246.5 million on advertising initiatives.

Meanwhile, her agency spent $ 341 million from 2014 through 2017 on overtime costs dictated by labor contracts between the city and the unions.

However, according to the President of the Treasury Board, departments and agencies spent $ 10.1 billion less than what they were authorized to spend by Parliament.

For 15 years the National Institutes of Health and other agencies spent $ 40 million trying — and never quite succeeding — to devise algorithms that could spot a growing neurologic storm.

Not exact matches

Here is how the small - business agency is going to be affected by the $ 85 billion in government - spending cuts that will go into effect starting Friday.

The president's spending blueprint cuts $ 54 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department, and NASA, among others, to pay for a massive military buildup.

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

That would translate into an additional $ 190 spent on fuel by the average U.S. household this year compared to last, the agency said.

«Alarmingly the Auditor General said that while $ 200 million was the amount he could track, the processes were so poor he had no idea how much was being spent within individual government agencies as part of the project,» Mr Buswell said.

The audit also found the Defense Logistics Agency lacked sufficient documentation for $ 384 million in spending for construction projects deemed «in progress.»

Don't be fooled into thinking this automatically gives the agency legitimacy; certification requires passing a few fairly easy exams, as well as maintaining a minimum monthly AdWords spend of $ 10,000 — which is a fairly low bar in the scheme of things.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

What's more, federal agencies spent about $ 4 billion on «sensors and data collectors» between 2011 and 2015, according to the business intelligence platform Govini.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Media agency Magna forecasts that digital media will take 44 percent, or $ 237 billion, of all ad money spent globally in 2018, with that figure reaching 50 percent, or $ 291 billion, by 2020.

Sam Goldsmith, who runs an insurance agency in Indianapolis, spends $ 3,000 a month on leads from Barinskiy and Kravitz's website.

Despite extensively researching and interviewing PR and crowdfunding agencies to give his campaign the best possible chance, Thomson spent $ 20,000 with a well - known crowdfunding PR agency, only to be greatly disappointed in its work.

More than $ 125 million has been spent over an initiative to bar state agencies from paying more for drugs than the Veterans Affairs Department pays.

In 1996, the US General Accounting Office estimated that a tax agency reconciliation system could reduce the time spent preparing tax returns by as much as 155 million hours a year for 51 million taxpayers and reduce the IRS's costs by up to $ 37 million annually.

The Budget justifies the increase in the lapse due to the experience in 2011 - 12, where departments / agencies spent approximately $ 10 billion less than they were authorized by Parliament.

The savings would represent about 5 per cent of direct program spending.Since that announcement, the Government has directed departments and agencies to find savings amounting to $ 8 billion or 10 per cent of direct program spending.

Initially, sources had flagged $ 4,700 in ad spending by Russia's so - called Internet Research Agency, and Google finally confirmed the number Monday.

Pruitt's trip to Australia was ultimately scuttled — the EPA said Pruitt needed to handle the agency's response to Hurricane Harvey — but not before EPA officials spent $ 45,000 in federal funds on a planning mission to Australia, according to Reuters.

Other direct program spending, consisting of operating expenses for Crown corporation, defence and all other departments and agencies, increased $ 2.3 billion (4.2 %), primarily reflecting increases in federal government employee pension and other future benefit liabilities, reflecting the impact of lower interest rates.

The International Energy Agency and the International Renewable Energy Agency recently estimated that more than $ 100 trillion could be spent globally on energy efficiency and renewable energy over the next 35 years.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who's previously drawn criticism for his spending habits, came under scrutiny again Friday after details of his housing arrangement emerged: According to media reports, Pruitt leased an apartment linked to a Washington lobbyist for $ 50 a night.

The PBO suggested that since the Government lapsed $ 10.1 billion in 2012 - 13, Parliamentarians should seek clarification as to why departments and agencies under spent by this amount and whether, given this, all of the $ 5.4 billion in Supplementary Estimates (B) is actually required.

The sequestration will make massive spending cuts mandatory across most government agencies (including the military) to the tune of $ 85 billion.

According to the Deseret News Agency, the propaganda arm of the LDS, the Church has spent some $ 750 million internationally on charitable work between 1984 and 2006.

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Chicago has a young core that has a high ceiling and close to $ 100M to spend in Free Agency.

The Cleveland Browns have nearly $ 50 million worth of cap space headed into free agency — and appear poised to spend a fair amount of it.

It's been a spell since the Orioles spent like this in free agency, and they're probably a couple years too late — a $ 100 million mercenary sure would have helped them out in 2014 — but if Davis leaves, they'll need to get their power from someone.

It's not exactly clear what purpose these 30 - foot - tall towers serve, but already the agency has spent between $ 42 million and $ 47 million on the project.

The Governor also proposes to shift $ 116 million in agency costs to capital funds, while moving $ 390 million in other expenses from capital to SOF, for a net impact of increasing SOF spending by $ 274 million.6 (See Table 2.)

Governor Cuomo closes this year's budget gap by reducing spending at state agencies by $ 1.3 billion dollars, and reducing aid to local governments by another $ 756 million dollars.

Lhota and Cuomo have pressured de Blasio to split the $ 836 million price tag — a mix of new capital and operating funds — but the mayor has insisted that he would not give the MTA more city dollars until the agency spent its money more wisely.

The state was prepared to allocate $ 100 million, but Cuomo insisted that the state have oversight over how it gets spent, rather than a direct infusion of money into the city - run agency.

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

In announcing the watch list, Stringer noted that citywide spending on homelessness across all agencies has more than doubled from $ 1.1 billion in FY 2013 to a projected $ 2.6 billion in FY 2019, resulting in a need to monitor DHS spending.

WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent more than $ 120,000 in public funds last summer for a trip to Italy that included a meeting of G - 7 ministers and...

Last month, the state's Empire State Development agency produced a report on the program's outcomes revealing that in its first year it created only 76 jobs yet spent $ 53 million advertising the program nationwide.

In 2007 and 2008, it spent $ 145,000 and $ 134,000, respectively, according to records their lobbyists submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and its predecessor agencies.

The governor is scheduled to give a hard - hitting address to the state tomorrow regarding a budget crisis that is «worse than anyone realizes,» and to urge state agencies to «slash spending» to avoid a $ 4 billion, two - year budget gap.

A press release accompanying the audit said the Empire State Development agency had spent the $ 211 million in advertising «with no tangible results.»

Washington (CNN)- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $ 447 billion spending bill that funds several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year - money needed to keep government funded after next week.