Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released his annual “Festivus” report Friday highlighting roughly $900 billion of government waste.
Sen. Paul’s report contains a list of miscellaneous, pricey government programs ranging from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of Russian cats on a treadmill to graphic novel about “disinformation” by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“This year, I am highlighting a whopping ~$900,000,000,000 of waste, including an NIH grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill, Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds, $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and $200 million to ‘struggling artists’ like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne. No matter how much money the government has already wasted, politicians keep demanding even more,” the report reads.
America’s interest payments on the national debt in fiscal year 2023 cost $659 billion, with a significant amount of the funds being borrowed from China, the “festivus” report states.
