Claim: "The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof."
Fact-check: Fish treadmills, gingerbread houses resurface in waste claim
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jon Greenberg
Date published: 2021-05-24T00:00:00