Of course. Few people ever read legislative bills in their entirety, and lawmakers to a certain extent count on this to slip in their favorite, though not aways necessary, programs. The general consensus is that yes, there is always some "wasteful" spending in Federal bills, but of course it's not considered wasteful to the person who receives the funding and probably lobbied pretty hard to get it. What you think is wasteful depends on what hilltop you are sitting on. The one category that has received the most bipartisan attacks as an easy target over the years is money allocated for studies that aren't really needed, are frivolous, or the results are a foregone conclusion and the results will never be acted on. A lot of them have to do wth animals and insects. One study was to find out what bugs do once they are attracted to lights and what exactly do they do once they fly over to the light. It cost $65,473. In another study, the U.S. National Institutes of Health funded a $592,527 study to explain why Chimpanzees throw their poo.
One thing is for sure, the 1.9 Trillion Coronavirus stimulus package will have provisions in it that have nothing to do with the virus or provide any genuine stimulus.
