Apparently, the Department of Justice spent millions of taxpayer dollars to fund operations for thousands of illegal guns to cross the border and fall into the hands of violent Mexican drug gangs.

很显然，司法部花了纳税人的数百万美元，用来资助清理越境而落入残暴的墨西哥毒枭手中的几千杆枪。

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This can cost the department tens of thousands of dollars for the equipment and especially the fees to store their video data.

这一决定将花费数万美元自己用来支付设备支出，尤其是需要花费大量资金来保存视频资料的储备。

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The Department of Homeland Security, which some hoped would augment the Science Foundation and DARPA, spends just a few million dollars per year for IT research.

美国国土安全部每年投向IT研究方面的资金仅有几百万美元。

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The United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation approved more than one million dollars to pay for the experiment.

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Investigations into the tribe's accounting system by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Labour have been unable to confirm that hundreds of thousands of federal dollars paid to the tribe were spent for the purposes intended.

ECONOMIST: The Cherokee nation

In June, 2007, a measure authorizing the U.S. Department of Labor to spend a hundred and twenty-five million dollars to train workers for green jobs was introduced in the House.

NEWYORKER: Greening the Ghetto

The department said that the publishers prevented retail price competition resulting in consumers paying millions of dollars more for their e-books.

FORBES: DOJ Settles With Three Publishers on E-Book Suit