The last match-up of March Spending Madness is here! The two surviving proposed cuts now go head to head in our version of the ubiquitous basketball bracket.

The Final Four of March Spending Madness is here! The four surviving proposed cuts now go head to head in our version of the ubiquitous basketball bracket.

In the second round of March Spending Madness, the eight proposed cuts that survived the first round now go head to head in our version of the ubiquitous basketball bracket.

A quick look at the three most popular posts from last week.

In honor of March Madness we pulled sixteen sweet cuts from proposals from across the political spectrum and pitted them against each other in our version of the ubiquitous basketball bracket.

In 2009, the House of Representatives approved $200 million to purchase three Gulfstream private jets for top government officials and Members of Congress.

$4 million of stimulus funds is being used to dump 30 million pounds of oyster shells into the St. Lucie River in Florida.

The State Department will spend $450,000 of taxpayers’ money for art and architecture exhibitions in Venice, Italy.

A project to build a tunnel to protect turtles from oncoming traffic on a Florida highway has received $3.4 million in stimulus funds. The millions are, apparently, still not enough to completely finance the project.

As part of a $320 million media campaign, the Census Bureau has included messages in 2 million fortune cookies encouraging participation in the 2010 Census. The cookies are being sent to restaurants and grocery stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.