Posted on 12/23/2024 7:18:39 PM PST by bitt
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.
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.
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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I surmise that much of that wasted money was looted and went to fill the pockets of Biden and his criminal cronies.
So will Biden wrestle Corn Pop?
That would be a Feat of Weakness.
But not a penny to Trump supporters washed out by hurricanes in the American South.
Link to the report here:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REPORT-2024.pdf
A few more examples:
- $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing mostly empty buildings
- $12 Million on a Las Vegas Pickleball Complex
- $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil
- $10,851,439 on Orwellian cat experiments
- $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers
- $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks
- $90 billion on ineffective Navy LCS vessels
- $873,584 for movies in Jordan
- $288,563 to Ensure Bird Watching Groups Have Safe Spaces
- $20 million on the Fertilize Right initiative to advance fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil
- $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security
- $10,000 grant for ice-skating drag queens
- $892 billion in fiscal year 2024 on the interest on Uncle Sam’s Credit Card
...and SQUAT for flood-ravaged Appalachia...
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