Waste? What exactly do you mean.
Saying they spent more than they actually did and pocketing the money.
You’re describing fraud. Waste would be spending money unnecessarily, but not having anyone specific intentionally gain from it.
Unless you’re an accountant, and a better one than they have, you probably won’t.
Well, assuming you are talking about USA. Good luck, often times they use private corporations to hide money trails, since corporations can hide the trail.
The best way is to learn about the specific branch or service; who runs it, who are their friends, where does the money actually supposed to go? Its significantly difficult to learn these things and not get caught as well.
Go through the accounting records.
If your government is not corrupt from head to toe then they probably have “access to information” or in my area “Freedom of Information act request.” I don’t know how to do it and I’ve been wanting to requests some info from the government too. It might be easier for someone to teach you but Citizen Lab has one for companies to access what info they gathered from you. Maybe you can start there. If you’re Canadian then search Freedom of Information act or “Freedom of Information Request.” As far as I’m reading request needs to be specific so they won’t reject your request due to technicality like “the man hours to gather with request is too much for our dept” or something like that.
