Libertarian-minded Sen. Rand Paul launched his ninth annual ‘festivus’ report, this yr detailing some $900 billion in authorities waste.
Such waste included pictures of Barbie dolls have been held up as identification by fraudsters seeking to seize money from the Covid Paycheck Protection Program, $33 million that went to a ‘monkey colony’ in South Carolina, $6 million for Egyptian tourism and a virtually $1 million grant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a examine on Russian cats on treadmills.
The examine additionally highlighted some $38 million in Covid funds that went out to useless individuals. The federal authorities additionally made a whopping $236 billion in ‘improper federal funds,’ whether or not via Medicaid, unemployment or tax credit.
Another $4 million was spent on finding out Covid ‘misinformation’ in black and rural communities.
It additionally famous some $200 million doled out as Covid reduction via the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. Artists like Post Malone, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, and Smashing Pumpkins bought $10 million a chunk from this system, meant to assist small business homeowners.
Libertarian-minded Sen. Rand Paul launched his ninth annual ‘festivus’ report, this yr detailing some $900 billion in authorities waste
Photos of Barbie dolls have been held up as identification by fraudsters seeking to seize money from the Covid Paycheck Protection Program
U.S. Army officers ‘improperly saved 80 fuel turbine engines,’ valued at $89 million, and 135 hydraulic transmissions, valued at $12 million, and wasted ‘117,534 vehicular observe footwear’ valued at $68.29 million left outdoors within the open air, in response to the report.
‘”Don’t go away it out within the rain” looks as if easy and basic coaching,’ Paul mused.
The Department of Defense spent one other $9,000 on a lobster tank.
The NIH, funded via taxpayers, ran a $12 million examine on the sleeping habits of monkeys given meth within the morning.
Monkeys have been dosed and tracked ‘via implanted wire leads working “subcutaneously from the head incision to the eye orbit, exiting the eye orbit from underneath the upper eyelid.”’
Paul famous that $400 million is sitting untouched in a presidential marketing campaign fund. When Americans fill out their tax returns, there’s a field they’ll tick off if they need $3 to go to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Account, a fund for campaigns that no presidential candidate has ever accepted.
In one other controversial NIH examine that cost taxpayers $3.7 million, monkeys have been compelled to gamble for his or her consuming water after researchers eliminated a part of their cranium and injected them with tracers to observe their brains.
Paul hit out at Dr. Anthony Fauci for the NIH’s animal experiments.
‘Under Dr. Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was again within the business of losing your money and torturing animals,’ he wrote, pointing to a transgender monkey examine.
‘The NIAID is utilizing $477,121 of your tax {dollars} to fund the compelled feminization of male rhesus macaques. Utilizing taxpayer funds from NIAID, a Florida lab got down to study what would occur if feminine hormones got to male monkeys.’
Paul famous that $400 million is sitting untouched in a presidential marketing campaign fund
An almost $1 million grant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a examine on Russian cats on treadmills
‘The lab labored to make male lab monkeys “transgender” to deal with “social injustices” suffered by “transgender persons” equivalent to “transgender ladies (TGW)-individuals who have been assigned a male set at beginning however specific their gender alongside a feminine spectrum.’
Meanwhile, America’s debt has reached $34 trillion, up from $30 trillion in 2022. Some $659 billion went to curiosity on the debt this yr.
‘Who’s guilty for our crushing degree of debt? Everybody,’ Paul wrote within the report. ‘This yr, members of each events in Congress voted to lift the debt ceiling, which empowered the federal government to borrow an infinite quantity of money till 2024. As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet tasks, the American taxpayers are compelled to pay the value via record-high inflation and crippling rates of interest.’
He added: ‘The identical massive spenders teamed up, but once more, to proceed sending Americans’ hard-earned money to international international locations and funding limitless wars, all whereas ignoring our porous southern border.’
