Here it is for review
https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/Festivus 2023 Clean AJS edits 5p.pdf
Too much to list but 400 million in blatant waste. My vote goes to giving beagle puppies cocaine. Anybody else have a favorite government waste program?
Here is the summary. I bolded the very problematic ones:
Giving ineligible citizens COVID Economic Injury Disaster Grants (SBA)…..$4,500,000,000
Using COVID relief funds to construct an 11,000 square foot spa……….….... $140,000,000
Using COVID relief funds to purchase luxury cars ……………………….…….$31,500,000
Wisconsin school using COVID relief funds to upgrade turf fields……...………..$1,600,000
Camouflage uniforms that do not fit the Afghanistan environment (DOD)….….$28,000,000
Funding a 1.5-mile park in Austin, Texas, used for yoga and concerts (DOD)…....$9,000,000
Starbucks espresso machines (DOD)………………………………………………$192,592
Interest Payments on the Debt (Treasury)….......………………………..…$475,000,000,000
Maintaining 77,000 empty Federal buildings (GSA)………………..………....$1,700,000,000
“Basic education” projects in Jordan (USAID)……………………….………...$210,069,000
Expanding the Washington, D.C. Streetcar that’s rarely used and unreliable…....$175,000,000
Helping illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)……………………….…. $168,000,000
Mismanaged and un-tracked fuel purchases (State)……………………….…….. $77,000,000
Subsidizing the free New York Staten Island Ferry (DOT)…………….....……...$70,000,000
Overpaying government contractors for a terminated contract (GSA)…………..$69,000,000
East Baton Rouge unused federal housing grants (HUD)……………………......$13,400,000
Boosting the Tunisia travel sector during COVID-19 (USAID)………...…….…$50,000,000
Unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants (DHS)………………….…………...$17,000,000
Constructing a Gandhi museum…………………...……. …………………….....$3,000,000
Watching hamsters fight on steroids (NIH)………………………..………….…..$3,000,000
Super Bowl commercials telling you to fill out the Census (Commerce)…………..$2,500,000
Injecting 6-month-old beagle puppies with cocaine (NIH) ………............................$2,300,000
Encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes (NIH)…............................................................$2,100,000
Training mice to binge drink alcohol (NIH)……………………………………....$1,100,000
Studying the romance between parrots (NSF)……………..……………................…$689,222
Studying the social life and collective intelligence of ants (NSF)………………….....$675,000
Using mice to study racial aggression (NIH)……...………………………………...$519,828
Redeveloping the United States hard cider market (USDA)…………..…………… $491,794
A radio campaign telling drivers to stop at railroad crossings (DOT)…...…………..$200,000
Verifying that kids love their pets (NIH)………………………………………..….$187,500
Researching if Thanos could snap his fingers wearing the infinity gauntlet (NSF)…..$118,971
