For years now, Senator Rand Paul has been releasing an annual ‘Festivus Report’ to focus on authorities waste and this 12 months is not any completely different.
Paul’s record consists of some actually wonderful gadgets this 12 months, resembling funding to review transgender monkeys.
It’s wonderful what the federal government spends our tax {dollars} on, whereas telling us there’s not sufficient cash for different issues, like a border wall for example.
The New York Post experiences:
Transgender monkeys and $8K lobster tanks: Gov’t spending grievances aired in ‘Festivus Report’
Time to tug your pole out of the crawl house.
In essentially the most great time of the 12 months for Washington price range hawks, Sen. Rand Paul launched his annual airing of spending grievances Friday in honor of the “Seinfeld”-immortalized vacation “Festivus.”
From science experiments on transgender monkeys to $38 million in COVID funds to useless individuals, Paul’s report detailed what he known as “a whopping $9 billion of waste” of taxpayer funds.
“Final Festivus, we lamented over the nationwide debt reaching an astronomical $30 trillion,” wrote Paul (R-Ky.).
“Shockingly, in a single brief 12 months, the profession politicians and bureaucrats in Washington have managed to method $34 trillion in debt, with out a lot as a second thought.”
Paul blasted each political events for contributing to the shortfall by voting to boost the debt ceiling in late Could, “which empowered the federal government to borrow a vast sum of money till 2024.”
“As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet tasks, the American taxpayers are compelled to pay the value by means of report excessive inflation and crippling rates of interest,” he stated within the report.
Rand Paul does an actual public service by declaring this nonsense.
Pleased Festivus from @RandPaul.
Our authorities wasted over $900B on:
-Experiments on transgender monkeys
-$38M in COVID funds to useless individuals
-Graphic novels from CISA and DHS about “disinformation”
-Costly lobster tanks
-Egyptian Tourism
-Russian cats on treadmills& Extra pic.twitter.com/ijwIBil8ej
— ALX (@alx) December 24, 2023
It is that point of 12 months once more. Pleased #Festivus! I’ve bought plenty of issues with you individuals! And now, you are gonna hear about it. pic.twitter.com/cZaMOHmA2x
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2023
️ Whoopsie: Improper Federal Funds – $236,000,000,000
️ The Authorities Pays Lifeless Individuals … Once more! – $38,000,000
️ Dr. Fauci’s Transgender Monkey Examine – $477,121These are only a few extra egregious examples however you possibly can learn all of them! https://t.co/VGAWKvUk4L
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2023
The federal government positive is beneficiant with our cash.