Paul's Festivus Report: $1.6T in Wasteful Spending
Update: 2025-12-23
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Senator Rand Paul unveils his annual Festivus report, revealing over $1.6 trillion in wasteful federal spending. He highlights unusual expenditures, such as $1.5 million for celebrity influencers to combat drug use, $1.9 million for a mobile app targeting childhood obesity, and over $40 million for social media stars promoting COVID vaccinations to minority groups. The State Department spent $244,000 on a Pakistani cartoon and $1.5 million promoting American media overseas. The VA used over $1 million to teach ferrets to binge drink, while the NSF allocated nearly $500,000 for a kids video game challenge and over $14.6 million for monkey game training. With the national debt surpassing $40 trillion, Paul emphasizes the need for real change despite Congresss recent $5 trillion debt ceiling increase.
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