Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images For all its claims of being tight-fisted stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars, the Trump administration really is footloose and fancy free when it comes to vanity projects and symbolic measures. A 2025 estimate suggested the federal government might be on the hook for a cool half-billion to cover President Trump’s pet projects: While imposing across-the-board layoffs, grant rescissions, and lease cancellations in federal civilian agencies, President Trump is