Posted on 12/22/2023 5:31:22 PM PST by Rusty0604
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his 2023 “Festivus” Report, totaling ~$900,000,000,000 in government waste.
Some of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
You can find Dr. Paul’s 2023 Festivus Report HERE.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Festivus-2023.pdf
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Department of Education
Department of Energy
Housing and Urban Development
Health and Human Services
Labor
Small business adminstration
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I never watched the show until the final episode sometime in aug 1998 when I heard my neighbors downstairs howling with laughter, but isn’t ‘festivus’ a july holiday?
It was a holiday George’s dad made up to celebrate in jieu o Christmas. It was hilarius.
Whoopsie: Improper Federal Payments………………………………………………$236,000,000,000hilarious.
The faces of Barbie’s Dream World played a role in the fiscal nightmare that
was COVID-19 spending. Government spending was already out of control
when Congress approved $800 billion in COVID Paycheck Protection
Program (PPP) funds. As federal agencies hustled to get the funds out
quickly, it came as no surprise when swindlers rushed to line up for their cut
of the COVID cash.
Some of us saw the writing on the wall and predicted that shutting down our
economy and printing more money to pay the nation to stay home from work
would be a fiscal disaster. But using Barbie’s face as proof of identity to
steal taxpayer dollars was not on my COVID waste bingo card.
What was supposed to be an AI system to verify proof of identity, quickly
exposed the stupidity of the program. The verification system did not catch
the images of dolls uploaded by fraudsters. Somehow the Small Business
Administration carelessly approved the applicants from Toyland and sent
out improper COVID-19 PPP payments.
add the salaries of all the proletariat in Washington.
SMH
The inmates are running the asylum!!
Good Lord! I could just.............
SCREAM!!!!!!!!!
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