Rand Paul's annual Festivus report (2024) details how Biden admin spent $1T on 'government waste'

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Rand Paul's annual Festivus report details how Biden admin spent $1T on 'government waste'
Paul's 41-page report this year concludes the Biden administration spent $1 trillion on such events as drag shows and projects like the construction of pickle ball complexes.
By Misty Severi
Dec. 23, 2024

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Monday released his annual "Festivus" report, which included allegations the Biden administration spent $1 trillion on "'government waste," including taxpayer dollars on an ice-skating drag show.

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Monday released his annual "Festivus" report, which included allegations the Biden administration spent $1 trillion on "'government waste," including taxpayer dollars on an ice-skating drag show.
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The report consists of "grievances" Paul has compiled throughout the past year on the Biden administration's spending. The report gets its name from a celebration that stems from the 1960s but was made popular by the TV sitcom "Seinfeld" in the 1990s, according to the Washington Examiner.

Paul's 41-page report this year also concluded the administration wasted some of the $1 trillion on the construction of pickle ball complexes and a rat test related to cocaine.

“Last Festivus, we bemoaned the national debt nearing $34 trillion. In just a year, Washington’s career politicians and bureaucrats have managed to push it beyond $36 trillion – unsurprisingly, with hardly a second thought,” Paul wrote in the report's introduction. “As Congress spends to reward its favored pet projects, the American taxpayers are forced to pay through high prices and crippling interest rates.”

The report found that the administration gave a $10,000 grant to the ice-skating drag show "Beards on Ice," and gave New York University over $400,000 to study whether isolated rats seek cocaine more than normal rats, Fox News reported. ...

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Now can we cut spending?

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I don't know whether he mentioned this ...

DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency Parody
@realdogeusa
$118,000 of your tax dollars were used to study if a metal replica robot of Marvel Comics’ Thanos could really snap his fingers.
Not sure how that is important, but you paid for it.
8:25 PM · Dec 22, 2024

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Rand Paul’s Festivus Report Exposes Fauci’s NIH Wasting Taxpayer’s Money on Barbaric Cat Experiments with Electroshock and Brain Mutilation
by Jim Hᴏft Dec. 24, 2024 8:00 am
Gateway Pundit

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has unleashed another scathing edition of his annual Festivus Report, a tradition that lays bare the federal government’s misuse of taxpayer dollars.

This year, Paul’s report shines a glaring spotlight on a deeply unsettling aspect of government spending—barbaric experiments on cats, funded by none other than Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD). ...

https://twitter.com/WhiteCoatWaste/status/1871156430310703218