Sen. Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ Report Detailing $900 Billion in Wasteful Spending

Sen. Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ Report Detailing $900 Billion in Wasteful Spending
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) speaks in Washington on Dec. 20, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released his annual “Festivus” report on Dec. 22, documenting around $900 billion in wasteful U.S. government spending.

The report includes the Treasury Department spending $659 billion to pay interest on the almost-$34 trillion in national debt, $33.2 million in NIH experimenting on monkeys on a South Carolina island, $400.6 million sitting in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Account, federal taxpayer dollars that those running for the White House can access, and $6 million by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to boost tourism in Egypt, a U.S. ally.
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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