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"Festivus" was a holiday created by the writers of Seinfeld for a 1997 Christmas episode, which they jokingly made into an alternative to Christmas for those who hated the commercialization of the holidays. One of the "traditions" created for the fake holiday was the "Airing of Grievances." In 2015, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used that "tradition" as a springboard to write a report on government waste. Prior to 2015, Paul would post a few comments on Twitter highlighting egregious examples of government waste. But on December 23 of that year, he released a 38-page report. “Our investigations into federal spending...

'Tis the season for Senator Rand Paul to air his Festivus grievances about government waste! It's out, and it's spectacular! We're proud that--for the 7th year straight--the report features wasteful animal tests exposed by WCW, including: 🐶 $5.2M to inject beagles with cocaine and meth (NIH) 🐕 $13.8M for Dr. Fauci’s ongoing maximum pain tick bite experiments on beagles (NIH) 🦆☣️ $1M for a dangerous USDA-CCP bird flu gain-of-function collaboration (USDA) 🦭🐬 $77M for the Navy’s outdated Marine Mammal Program (DOD) 🐁🤰$2.8M to implant bone, liver, and thymus tissue from aborted human fetuses into lab animals to create “BLT mice”...

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...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released his 2021 “Festivus” Report, which detailed a total of $52,598,515,585 in government waste. Paul is chairman of the Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and is on the Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC). This marks Dr. Paul’s and the subcommittee’s seventh edition of the Festivus Report , which the Senator described as a way to “alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.” Areas of spending are broken down into various sections, including COVID-related spending, Afghanistan, and miscellaneous expenditure. Examples include $11.3 million...