Taxpayers are funding 1,500 Zombies, agencies and programs that live on despite expired authorizations, accounting for 8% of federal budget. Cash sucking federal zombies.
In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive. They never did. Still, Congress has funded …