Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is asking out the Biden administration for spending over a trillion taxpayer {dollars} on “authorities waste” this 12 months, together with on a bearded girl cabaret present, Arabic Sesame Street, and “girl-centered local weather motion.”
The Kentucky senator launched his annual “Festivus” report that particulars alternative ways during which the present administration spent taxpayer {dollars} all year long.
The 2024 Festivus Waste Report discovered that the Biden-Harris administration spent over $1 trillion this 12 months, together with giving a $10,000 grant to “Beards on Ice” — an ice skating drag present on local weather change placed on by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, a self-described “queer cabaret arts group.”
Additionally, the Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off present in Iraq, titled “Ahlan Simsim,” in an effort to advertise “inclusion” and “mutual respect.”
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Members of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret cross Broad St., earlier than a march by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in Philadelphia, Pa., on the primary day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016. (Tom Williams)
About $1.5 was spent experimenting how totally different species, corresponding to younger feminine kittens, reply to movement illness.
According to the report, researchers would strap kittens to a desk, the place they’re spun round in a number of instructions and have holes drilled into their skulls to maintain them in place — “and it’s all being finished together with your cash,” Paul writes within the report. “More than one and a half million {dollars} of it.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly gave New York University (NYU) over $400,000 to check whether or not lonely rats search cocaine greater than rats who’re in optimistic environments, whereas the Department of the Interior (DOI) allotted $12 million to fund a pickleball complicated in Las Vegas, in accordance with the report.
Basma, Muppet From Ahlan Simsim, Sesame Street, speaks onstage through the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 1 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 23, 2019 in New York City. (Riccardo Savi)
“Now, did the federal government actually need to spend almost half one million {dollars} to confirm that social isolation and hunger could result in elevated drug utilization? One factor is for certain, we should finish this rat-wheel of waste!” Paul wrote within the report.
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The State Department spent $3 million on “Girl-Centered Climate Action” in Brazil, a program reportedly designed to “empower younger girls to turn out to be climate leaders by integrating fairness and inclusivity into environmental activism,” the report writes, citing the grant particulars.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., rating member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, blocked a invoice Wednesday that will have allowed native legislation enforcement businesses to trace aerial drones. (Jose Luis Magana)
“As the common American taxpayers wrestle to pay hire, their hard-earned {dollars} are satirically funneled into extra actual property,” the report learn, referring to the Biden struggles spending $10B on sustaining and furnishing buildings that had been nearly fully empty.
The Department of Energy (DOE) gave automakers $15.5 billion to push the business into the electric vehicle (EV) sector, whereas one other $388,000 was given to “Magic within the United States,” a podcast discussing how magical beliefs and practices have developed within the U.S.
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The senator additionally talked about the Biden administration giving $2.1 million to fund Paraguay’s border: “Nothing says “America First” like securing another person’s border,” Paul wrote.
