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Rand Paul's Annual 'Festivus Report' Reveals $900B Wasted on Insane Federal Projects
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf All of it in PDF form , you need to read it .
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Tis the season...for Festivus! And that means Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is out with his annual report through which he airs his spending grievances about the federal government's waste of taxpayer dollars as the national debt grew from $30 trillion to almost $34 trillion in 2023.
"This 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," Paul reminded in his Festivus report. "As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet projects, the American taxpayers are forced to pay the price through record high inflation and crippling interest rates."
Even worse, Paul noted that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now "predicts we will add an average of $2 trillion in debt annually for the next decade" which means the federal government will "add over $5 billion of debt every single day for the next ten years" as we "borrow over $200 million every hour, we borrow $3 million every minute, and we borrow $60,000 every second."
Yikes. And what do Americans get for all that spending and debt? Not much. Senator Paul's 2023 Festivus Report highlights "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."
Rand Paul's Annual 'Festivus Report' Reveals $900B Wasted on Insane Federal Projects
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf All of it in PDF form , you need to read it .
Clip from first article link above .
Tis the season...for Festivus! And that means Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is out with his annual report through which he airs his spending grievances about the federal government's waste of taxpayer dollars as the national debt grew from $30 trillion to almost $34 trillion in 2023.
"This 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," Paul reminded in his Festivus report. "As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet projects, the American taxpayers are forced to pay the price through record high inflation and crippling interest rates."
Even worse, Paul noted that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now "predicts we will add an average of $2 trillion in debt annually for the next decade" which means the federal government will "add over $5 billion of debt every single day for the next ten years" as we "borrow over $200 million every hour, we borrow $3 million every minute, and we borrow $60,000 every second."
Yikes. And what do Americans get for all that spending and debt? Not much. Senator Paul's 2023 Festivus Report highlights "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."
