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Here is your corrupt, inept government in action.
It's pathetic.
'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.'
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'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.
"Now, did the government really need to spend nearly half a million
dollars to verify that social isolation and starvation may lead to
increased drug usage?" Paul wrote. "One thing is for sure, we must end
this rat-wheel of waste!"
The administration also spent $12 million to fund a pickle ball complex
in Las Vegas, $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off show in Iraq,
titled "Ahlan Simsim," and $10 billion on government buildings that are
largely empty because of the increase in federal remote work.
"As the average American taxpayers struggle to pay rent, their
hard-earned dollars are ironically funneled into more real estate," the
report stated.
The senator also found that the Biden administration gave $2.1 million
to fund Paraguay's border, despite the United States' own border crisis
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