{"id":13212,"date":"2023-12-23T02:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/rand-pauls-festivus-report-exposes-900b-in-government-squander\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T02:50:13","slug":"rand-pauls-festivus-report-exposes-900b-in-government-squander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/rand-pauls-festivus-report-exposes-900b-in-government-squander\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul\u2019s \u2018Festivus Report\u2019 exposes $900B in government squander"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Friday released his annual Christmas \u2018Festivus\u2019 report for the ninth year in a row, outlining $900 billion in government waste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among notable instances, the National Institutes of Health allocated funds to study Russian cats on treadmills; photos of Barbies were utilized as identification to obtain COVID relief funds; the Department of Defense lost $169 million of outdoor-stored military gear; $6 million went towards tourism in Egypt by the United States Agency for International Development; and the Small Business Administration provided over $200 million to \u2018struggling\u2019 music artists such as Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne.<\/p>\n

Up from $30 trillion in debt in 2022, this year\u2019s debt amounts to $34 trillion, the report also highlights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Who\u2019s to blame for our crushing level of debt? Everybody,\u2019 Paul wrote in the report. \u2018This year, members of both parties in Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling, which empowered the government to borrow an unlimited amount of money until 2024. As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet projects, the American taxpayers are forced to pay the price through record\u2013<\/strong>high inflation and crippling interest rates.\u2019<\/p>\n

He added: \u2018The same big spenders teamed up, yet again, to continue sending Americans\u2019 hard-earned money to foreign countries and funding endless wars, all while ignoring our porous southern border.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rand\u2019s report highlighted government spending that included accepting Barbie doll photos to obtain COVID relief funds from a portion of an $800 billion allocation in Paycheck Protection Program funds. Other expenses highlighted were $659 billion for national debt interest, $33.2 million for transgender monkey research, $6 million for boosting Egyptian tourism and an unknown cost for USDA\u2019s dog-walking research in summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Researchers found the Labradors\u2019 fur color did not affect their body temperatures after a hot summer\u2019s walk. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the taxpayerfunded, cutting-edge study,\u2019 Paul wrote. \u2018The Agricultural Research Service at the USDA, which funded the study at Southern Illinois University, gets $1.7 billion a year from Congress, but it\u2019s unknown how much the hot dog study cost the taxpayer.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Under Dr. Fauci\u2019s leadership, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded a study using $477,121 to force-feminize male rhesus macaques in a Florida lab, the report found. The experiment involved administering female hormones to these male monkeys to investigate potential vulnerabilities to HIV, even though critics argue monkeys are not susceptible to HIV.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The lab worked to make male lab monkeys \u2018transgender\u2019 to address \u2018social injustices\u2019 suffered by \u2018transgender persons\u2019 such as \u2018transgender women (TGW)-individuals who were assigned a male sex at birth but express their gender along a female spectrum,\u201d the report read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group advocating for the suspension of taxpayer-funded animal testing, told Fox News Digital in a statement that \u2018a growing majority of taxpayers \u2014 Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike \u2014 oppose Uncle Sam\u2019s wasteful, dangerous, and cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and don\u2019t want to be forced to pay billions for these boondoggles.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paul cited White Coat Waste Project\u2019s findings for the Russian cat lab, Fauci\u2019s monkey island and others throughout the Festivus report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, there were undisclosed expenses for training Department of Homeland Security employees; studying Russian cats on treadmills and meth-head monkeys from a portion of $2.7 million; creating graphic novels on disinformation; and exploring COVID-19 \u2018misinformation\u2019 in black and rural communities totaling $3.8 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Costs for ruining military equipment totaled $169 million, while expenses for entertainment and studies involving gambling monkeys, transgender monkeys and improper federal payments accumulated to $236 billion.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Budget Office forecasts a staggering increase in national debt, estimating an average addition of $2 trillion annually for the coming decade. This translates to over $5 billion in debt daily over the next 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018As always, taking the path to fiscal responsibility is often a lonely journey, but, as I\u2019ve done in years past, I will continue my fight against government waste this holiday season,\u2019 Paul wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Paul\u2019s report broke down $482 billion in wasteful spending, from the billions spent giving COVID relief funds to ineligible people to a $118,000 study on whether Marvel movie villain Thanos would really be able to snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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