INSANE SPENDING LIST: Rand Paul releases annual wasteful spending report, including cat experiments, cocaine rats, border security for other countries, much more…

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has made a list, checked it twice, and released it to the public on Monday.

Every year, Sen. Paul releases a list of the most insane list of wasteful spending by the U.S. government that you’ve ever seen, allowing U.S. taxpayers to see exactly where their money went. He mockingly calls it the “Festivus Report.”

The Washington Examiner announced: Today is Dec. 23, affectionately known as “Festivus,” a secular celebration that started in the 1960s but was made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. It was originally created as a societal counter to the commercialism associated with the Christmas season.

Yet despite its origins, it has also become synonymous with wasteful government spending, particularly the millions and millions of dollars in taxpayer money exposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in his annual and appropriately named Festivus Report. The senator discovered over a trillion dollars in government waste in this year’s report, including funding for projects focused on ice-skating drag queens, the construction of pickleball complexes, and cocaine rats, among many others.

Sickeningly, the report also revealed nearly $15 million in taxpayer medical testing on cats involving electroshock therapy, induced vomiting, and other cruel experimental methods. The Washington Examiner explained:

Female kittens as young as four months old, who are selected because they are more “amenable” to testing, are “kept tied down for hours at a time and for weeks on end” according to the report to train them before they are put into hydraulic gyroscopes that spin rapidly to induce motion sickness.

 

CLICK HERE to access Sen. Paul’s entire ‘Festivus Report.’ Prepare to be infuriated.  It details over $1 TRILLION worth of wasteful spending by the U.S. government. 

The list includes “Beards on Ice” (an ice skating drag show on climate change), a Sesame Street spin-off show in Iraq titled “Ahlan Simsim, sick experiments torturing cats, a program to empower young women to be “climate leaders” in Brazil, and much more.

Below is a summary included in the report.

Ghost Towns on the Government’s Dime: The federal government spent $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings

A Pandemic Plunder: A Florida man stole $8 million in COVID-19 Relief funds to buy an island and more

Your Tax Dollars at Play: The Department of the Interior (DOI) spent $12 Million on a Las Vegas Pickleball Complex

Taxpayers Fund a Disinformation Index: The Department of State (DOS) wasted $330,000 to fund censorship of nonliberal and conservative media

Snack Attack: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a $2 million grant to study kids looking at Facebook ads about food

Taxpayers Dollars Down the Drain in Nevis: The Department of State (DOS) spent $108,272 on a non-functioning hotel

Direct File Fail: Congress spent $15 million to turn the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into an unconstitutional force to prepare, file, and audit your hard-earned money

Oh Rats! HHS Spends Nearly Half a Million on a Depressing Study of Lonely, Starved Rats: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spent $419,470 to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats

Hold on to Your Steering Wheels: The Department of Energy (DOE) spent $15.5 billion to push Americans toward electric vehicles they don’t want

The Influencer Effect Hits Foreign Policy: The Department of State (DOS) squandered $4,840,082 on influencers

Cirque du Taxpayer: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) spent $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds: The Department of State (DOS) spent $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil

A State Department Production Featuring Your Hard-Earned Money: The Department of State (DOS) paid the Royal Film Commission $873,584 for movies in Jordan

Goalposts and Grandstanding: The Department of State (DOS) spent $345,434 on football engagement to counter terrorism

When Bailouts Go Bust: The United States Department of the Treasury (USDT) granted a failed trucking company a $700 million pandemic-era loan

Flocking Together! DEI Takes Flight: The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $288,563 to ensure bird watching groups have safe spaces aka “Affinity Groups”

Interest-ingly Wasteful: Americans are paying $892 billion in fiscal year 2024 on the interest on Uncle Sam’s Credit Card

Hashtag to Handouts in Ethiopia: The Department of State (DOS) spent $500,000 to expand the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia’s #USInvestsInEthiopians social media campaign to a larger national public relations campaign

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, There Goes Your Tax Dollars Too! The federal government spent $7,026,689 on various magical projects

Because Who Needs a Secure U.S. Border, Anyway? The Department of State (DOS) spent $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security

The High Price of High Line Art: Since 2015 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded $385,000 for art displays on the High Line

Money to Manure: The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending $20 million on the Fertilize Right Initiative to advance fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil

Fauci Funded Feline COVID Experiments: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and U.S.

Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent $2.24 million on COVID experiments

Going Viral for World Peace: The Department of State (DOS) is spending $123,066 to teach Kyrgyzstan youth how to go viral

Spinning Kittens for Science and Motion Sickness: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1,513,299 on a study of waste and cruelty

Cat-Stipated?: The Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on Orwellian cat experiments

More Ducking Waste in Mexico: The Department of the Interior (DOI) spent $720,479 on wetland conservation projects for ducks in Mexico

Big Bird Goes to Baghdad: The Agency for International Development (USAID) is spending $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq

News We Wish Was Fake: The Department of State (DOS) sent $253,653 to Bosnia to fight “misinformation”

Abandon Ship: The Navy Sinks Billions on LCS Vessels: The U.S. Navy is set to waste almost $90 billion on ineffective Navy vessels

Dragging Tax Dollars onto Thin Ice: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the Bearded Ladies Cabaret a $10,000 grant to support a cabaret show on ice skates focused on climate change

Taxpayers Get Spun: The Department of State (DOS) allocated $32,596.12 for breakdancing

Sen. Paul always presents his annual Festivus Report in a mocking tone, throwing in a string of jokes along the way.  Because after all, the list is so wild it’s a complete freak show.

Saturday morning, he blasted it all out in a series of social media posts:

It’s that time of year again. Happy Festivus! I’ve got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.

It’s hard to decide where to start these grievances. Every year, I think, there can’t be THAT many more can there?

But when you’re surrounded by people in Congress every day, it’s not a problem at all.

Can you imagine deciding who you’ll be mad at on any given day? It’s almost impossible.

So here I am, and once again, I’m going to be playful, sometimes not so playful, and I’ll be roasting the ruling class in Washington, DC. Because how else will you all get into the holiday spirit? Grab your eggnog, sit down near your tree, and prepare to see some chestnuts roasted.

Festivus has been a Holiday tradition for me for over 10 years, and I hope you’ve incorporated the airing of grievances into your family holiday time together. It really helps set the mood, I think.

It’s hard to decide where to start this year. Fauci? Maybe. He may be gone, but he’s not forgotten. Biden? Which one? Harris? Trump? CONGRESS? So many targets, so little attention span this morning. It might break 40 degrees here in Kentucky today, so this might all be canceled for golf.

Last year, I hoped that Congress would hold Dr. Fauci accountable. Though the House tried, he’s still walking around a free man. Well, he’s got two new major problems for Christmas this year — I’m the incoming chairman of the Senate HSGAC committee, and I have subpoena power to force him to turn over everything he’s been hiding.

Even better, my good friend @RobertKennedyJr will be in charge of HHS and happily receive the subpoena for other documents. Do you think he might be happy to turn them over? Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus, Tony.

Speaking of people who got run out of town but won’t entirely go away, Happy Festivus to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy! Kevin spent nearly $30 million trying to defeat conservatives who voted him out last year. But he only won one race when President Trump was also against his target. Basically, he completely and utterly failed. He lost races by 27 and 30 points. @SpeakerMcCarthy proved as bad at running campaigns as he did the House. But he’s still on my TV!? WHY?

I noted last year that I would be roasting the next speaker and the gang who put him in power by this Festivus. As usual, I am right. I want to be the first to congratulate former @SpeakerJohnson, who will be gone before DC gets warm again.

Speaking of all the things CONGRESS does wrong, I’ve published my BRAND NEW 2024 edition of the Waste Report!

I was a one-man @DOGE before @DOGE was a gleam in the eyes of amped-up tech executives, and new media barons got behind the idea. Don’t get me wrong, I’m VERY happy they’re here. I passed along 2,000 pages of waste to @ElonMusk and @VivekGRamaswamy in the interest of curbing government waste. Now, they don’t have to work too hard to find what I’ve already found.

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